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Aleksander Lesser’s most famous painting is The Funeral of the Five Victims, which depicts the public funeral of five men shot by the Russian military on March 2, 1861, during a rally calling for…
One of our greatest sins in the eyes of the Jewish bourgeoisie has been that in the course of the thirty-five years of our existence as a party we have not ceased to defend the simple idea that we…
Adopted at the Anniversary Congress in Warsaw, November 13, 1937 To the Jewish working men and working women.To the rank-and-file of the Jewish people and working intellectuals!At a difficult time…
This Hanukkah lamp from Poland is made from brass and would likely have been placed near the Torah ark in a synagogue. An engraved and cast eagle sits above a domed cupola, representing gratitude and…
How many Jews are there in Poland? This seems a simple and reasonable question, but the answer depends to a great degree on who is asking whom, when, and why. This should not be surprising: in Poland…
Every now and then a different door in the long corridor of the IsPolKom [Executive Committee] would yawn open, partly exposing the profiles of the office workers, emit a hum of muffled chatter and…
The Führer inquires of General Franco, “Comrade, how did you solve the Jewish problem?”
Franco answers, “I instituted the yellow badge.”
“That’s nothing,” says Hitler. “I imposed tributes…
The first Po‘ale Tsiyon group in Poltava was born out of the theoretical battle between Zionism and the journal Iskra [the organ of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party]. Up until 1905, [Dov Ber]…
After long deliberation, I concluded that we would be making a grave mistake if we did not participate in the upcoming kehilah electio…
This work, which I here make public, answers a scholarly need that became evident to me twenty-five years ago, when I was still a young student writing my first book, The Beginning…