Jewish Social Democratic Party

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Jewish Social Democratic Party (in Yiddish, Yidishe sotsial-demokratishe partey, Polish: Żydowska Partia Socjal-Demokratyczna, abbreviated ŻPSD) was a political party in Galicia and later also Bukovina, established in a split from the Polish Social Democratic Party of Galicia in 1905. The party made its first public appearance on May 1, 1905, with separate May Day rallies in Kraków, Lemberg, Tarnów and Przemyśl. However, as the new party stressed that it was not a competitor of the existing Social Democratic parties, they later joined the PSDP celebrations.[1]

JSDP held its founding congress in June 1905.[1] The second congress was held in 1906.[2]

Its founding theoretician and secretary was Henryk Grossman. While the Party sought affiliation to the Social Democratic Workers Party of Austria, this was refused. The JSDP became the largest organisation of Jewish workers in Galicia.[citation needed] The Party was influenced by the Bund in Russia and was opposed to Zionism.

In 1911 the Jewish Social Democracy in Galicia, the Jewish affiliate section of the PSDP, merged into the JSDP.[2]

In 1920, its organisation in Poland merged with the Bund.[3][4][5]

[edit] Membership

As 1906 the party had 2800 members in 1906, in 1908 the figure has risen to 3600 and by 1910 it claimed a membership of 4206.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b The tradition of Jewish anti-Zionism in the Galician socialist movement
  2. ^ a b c Brenner, Michael/Penslar, Derek Jonathan. In search of Jewish community : Jewish identities in Germany and Austria, 1918-1933. Bloomington: Indiana University press, c1998. p. 118
  3. ^ Marcus, Joseph. Social and political history of the Jews in Poland, 1919-1939. Berlin/New York: Mouton Publishers, 1983. p. 280-281
  4. ^ Kisman, Yusf 'Di yidishe sotsial-demokratishe bevegung in Galitsie un Bukovine', in G. Aronson, S. Dubnov-Erlikh, J. S. Herts, and others (eds) Di Geshikhte fun Bund drite band, New York: Farlag Unser Tsait, pp. 337-480
  5. ^ Kuhn, Rick Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. ISBN 0-252-07352-5.