Metadata: Odessa Regional Committee of the Jewish Communist Party Po’ale Tsiyon
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Odessa Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Одеської області
- Postal address:
- 18, Zhukovskogo str., Оdessa, 65026, Ukraine
- Phone number:
- 380 (48) 722-9365
- Web address:
- http://archive.odessa.gov.ua/en/
- Email:
- archive@odessa.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. P-868
- Title:
- Odessa Regional Committee of the Jewish Communist Party Po’ale Tsiyon
- Title (official language):
- Одеський обласний комітет Єврейської комуністичної партії Поалей Ціон, м. Одеса
- Creator/accumulator:
- Odessa Regional Committee of the Jewish Communist Party Po’ale Tsiyon
- Date(s):
- 1917/1921
- Language:
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 10 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Documents housed in the fonds include circulars of the Jewish Communist Party Po’ale Tsiyon central committee and its bureaus for Right- and Left-Bank Ukraine on studying Jewish literature in schools and clubs (with a lecture program), and on organising the central committee’s archival-historical commission, including a proposal “to entrust the organization’s secretary with the responsibility of collecting all manner of written and print materials on the operations of our organizations”; of the central committee’s economics section, on analysing “the possibility of agrarianizing the Jewish masses […] by way of propagating farming cooperatives,” and on organising a commercial cooperative; of the central committee’s central professional commission, on a congress (Moscow, January 1921) of the Igla [Needle] labor union, “whose ranks include tens of thousands of organized Jewish workers,” and on the 2nd conference of the Union of Jewish Toiling Masses (SETMASS) (to be held February 1922) (1920-21); instructions on the issuance of “oral newspapers” and on the arrangement of cultural work in organisations of the Jewish Communist Party Po’ale Tsiyon (1921); etc.; telegrams of the central committee of the Jewish Communist Party Po’ale Tsiyon to the Odessa regional committee, and the latter’s correspondence with the Odessa Provincial Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine, the provincial executive committee, the editorial offices of the newspaper Izvestiia, and other Soviet institutions, and in particular on preparations for events to honour the memory of B. Borokhov, the founder and leader of the Po’ale Tsiyon movement, in connection with the fourth anniversary of his death; biographical information on him, and a program for the “Borokhov week”; printed appeals by the central committee of the Jewish Communist Party Po’ale Tsiyon titled “To All Jewish Workers! To Jewish Toilers!” and “On the Party’s Three-Year Jubilee” (1921-22); etc.
Data on the personnel makeup of the Odessa organisation of the Jewish Communist Party Po’ale Tsiyon includes lists of its members, and of personnel of its regional and municipal committees, the Moldavanka District Committee, and the B. Borokhov worker’s club, and of delegates to the all-Russian party congress of the Jewish Communist Party Po’ale Tsiyon; and these persons’ questionnaire forms, registration cards, identification papers, credentials, etc. There is also statistical data (a diagram) on the size of the Odessa organisation of the Jewish Communist Party Po’ale Tsiyon, with a breakdown by profession (1921); correspondence on recordkeeping and mobilisation of persons for food-industry work [prodrabota], and evaluations from a survey of Jewish colonies of the Nikolaev province; a report by the Tiraspol’ organisation of the Jewish Communist Party Po’ale Tsiyon (1921); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The sociopolitical movement Po’ale Tsiyon (Hebrew for Toilers of Zion) arose in the late nineteenth century; its mission was to combine political Zionism and socialist ideology. In 1906, the Jewish Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Po’ale Tsiyon was organised, which along with other Po’ale Tsiyon entities established the World Socialist Union of Jewish Workers (Brit Olamit) in 1907 in the Hague, which was to coordinate Po’ale Tsiyon operations in various countries. The Bolshevik coup of 1917 led to a schism in Po’ale Tsiyon, with the Jewish Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Po’ale Tsiyon splitting off as a standalone organisation headquartered in Odessa in late 1917. Due to further ideological discord, a left-radical group of that organisation split off in turn in 1919; these members supported total identification with Bolshevism, and in 1920 formed the Jewish Communist Party Po’ale Tsiyon. The Odessa regional and municipal committees of Po’ale Tsiyon that were established at the same time declared themselves disbanded, and called upon all party members to join the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
- Access points: persons/families:
- Borokhov, B.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory systematised by document type.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary