Re: [Cz-L] Younger and Older Kids from Bukovina

Jerry is right about the Poalei Tsion and the Yiddish language.
My grandfather Shaul Leib Steinmetz was a Yiddishist till the first time
he visited Palestine in 1923. When he realized how many Sephardi
and Arabic Jews there were, he changed his mind and realized
that Hebrew should be the national language.
The Yiddish weekly newspaper my grandfather edited and published
was called "Die Yiddishe Arbeiter Zeitung" and copies of it can be found
in the Zionist archives in Jerusalem and in the central library in
Tel Aviv.

Mimi
On Apr 18, 2013, at 3:04 AM, yosi-jerry wrote:

> "Poaley Tsion" (Workers of Zion) as a Socialist Zionist movement
> differed from the other Zionist movements by taking the Yiddish
> language as its official language, in order to specify the
> partnership between all Jewish workers - those that make up the
> Jewish home in Eretz-Israel (Palestine at that time), and those who
> continue to live in Diaspora. As already noted Czernowitz was an
> important center of Yiddish culture at that time. Which explains
> the extensive activity of the Po'aley Tsion movement there in
> education (From kindergarten to vocational school), and the Yiddish
> newspaper of which Mimi's grandfather Leib Steinmetz was the editor.
> An interesting fact: David Ben-Gourion (David Green) was one of the
> first members of Poaley Zion but after he came to Palestine he
> adopted the Hebrew language as his language and became one of its
> most ardent preachers.
> Yosef Eshet
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "iosif vaisman"
> <iosif.vaisman_at_gmail.com>
> To: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
> Cc: "Edgar Hauster" <bconcept_at_hotmail.com>; "Czernowitz Discussion
> Group" <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>; "Gabriele Weissmann"
> <egweissmann_at_gmx.net>
> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 1:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Younger and Older Kids from Bukovina
>
>
> Mimi,
>
> last month I posted this photo of the kindergarten (it comes from the
> YIVO archive) together with two photos of the Poalei Zion sport club
> (http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/czernowitz12/testfile2013-1/1456.html).
> Ghetto Fighters House Archive has several dozens photos from different
> Poalei Zion activities in Czernowitz. Here is a couple of examples:
>
> http://goo.gl/ELNv9
> http://goo.gl/v0D6Q
> http://goo.gl/QVyqu
> http://goo.gl/ZbmBu
> http://goo.gl/RwpEF
>
> Iosif

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