Our Demands: A Ladino Socialist Manifesto

Abraham Benaroya

1911

What are the demands of the organized proletariat on this day [May 1]?

Above all the eight-hour workday. With eight-hour days we would gain work for thousands of unemployed men; we would gain time to relax, to educate ourselves, to enjoy ourselves, and to spend time with our families. With eight-hour workdays, we would maintain our strength and our…

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Abraham Benaroya

1887–1979

Born in Vidin, Bulgaria, Abraham Benaroya studied in Alliance Israélite Universelle schools before attending law school in Belgrade. In 1909, Benaroya moved to Salonika from Plovdiv, where he became a printer and a leader in the Workers’ Socialist Federation of Salonika. He published the federation’s short-lived organ Amele gazetesi (The Workers’ Gazette), which appeared in Turkish, Bulgarian, Ladino, and Greek. In 1918, Benaroya cofounded the Greek Socialist Workers’ Party. He edited a number of other socialist papers until 1923 when he shifted his focus to combatting antisemitism. He survived a Nazi concentration camp and immigrated to Israel in 1953.

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