United Jewish Socialist Workers Party
- United Jewish Socialist Workers Party
United Jewish Socialist Workers Party ( _yi. פאראייניקטע ײדישער סאָציאַליסטישע אַרבעטער פרטיי, "fareynikte yidishe sotsialistishe arbeter partey") was a political party in Poland and Ukraine. Its followers were generally known as "fareynikte" (פאראייניקטע). Politically the party favoured personal autonomy for the Jewish community.[Ėstraĭkh, G. "In Harness: Yiddish Writers' Romance with Communism. Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art." Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2005. p. 30] The party upheld a secular Jewish community community. [Berkowitz, Michael. "Nationalism, Zionism and Ethnic Mobilization of the Jews in 1900 and Beyond". IJS studies in Judaica, v. 2. Leiden: Brill, 2004. p. 225] ]The party was founded in May 1917 through the merger of two groups, the Zionist Socialist Workers Party (Socialist-Territorialists) and the Jewish Socialist Workers Party (the Seymists). Both of these groups had emerged out of the Vozrozhdenie group. As of early 1918, "Fareynikte" was the largest Jewish automist political party in Ukraine.
In the 1917 elections in Russia, the party obtained around 8% of the Jewish votes.[Pinkus, Benjamin. " [http://books.google.com/books?id=52Ew77pZsNUC The Jews of the Soviet Union: The History of a National Minority. Soviet and East European studies] ". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. p. 44] ]"Fareynikte" ran some Yiddish newspapers in Ukraine. It published the "Naye tsayt" in Kiev September 1917-May 1919.
In Poland, dissidents from the "Fareynikte" party joined the Communist Party of Poland. [Jaff Schatz. Jews and the communist movement in interwar Poland. In: Jonathan Frankel. [http://books.google.com/books?id=POkxdm6DoAsC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=jaff+schatz+jews+communism&source=web&ots=B5QNMKyJ49&sig=KW-p4_cdwuVM_kHyU9zifzYbX8M&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA30,M1 Dark Times, Dire Decisions: Jews and Communism. Studies in Contemporary Jewry.] Oxford University Press US, 2005, p. 20.]
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