Jews, Labour and the Left, 1918-48 by Collette Christine; Bird Stephen; & Stephen Bird

Author:Collette, Christine; Bird, Stephen; & Stephen Bird
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge

Notes

1. Sozialistische Arbeiter-Internationale papers, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, transcript of Vandervelde's speech, April 1928, SAI 2518/4. Biography of Vandervelde, Polasky, Janet (1995), The Democratic Socialism of Emile Vandervelde, Berg: Oxford.

2. Sargisson, Lucy (1996), Contemporary Feminist Utopianism, London: Routledge, passim. Cf. Gorni, Y. (1984), 'Utopian Elements in Zionist Thought', Studies in Zionism, 5 (1), 19: 'The idea of utopia is elusive, hidden behind the surface of reality. It is obscured by the tumult of everyday life and its hopes swallowed up in the turmoil of war'. Herman, D. (1994), 'Zionism as Utopian Discourse', Clio, 23 (3).

3. Collette, Christine (1998), The International Faith: the British Labour Movement and Europe, 1918 -1939, Ashgate: Aldershot.

4. James and Lucy Middleton papers, the Ruskin Collection, Ruskin College, Oxford, Middleton to Charles Irving, 'an ex-Tory voter', 12 April 1929, MID 23/11. James Middleton was Assistant Secretary to Arthur Henderson until 1935. Kelemen, Paul (1996), 'Zionism and the British Labour party', Social History, 21 (1), 73 writes that Middleton pronounced himself sympathetic to Zionism because 'scripture lessons imprinted on his generation the story of the Israelites'.

5. Pettman, Jan Jindy (1996), Worlding Women, London: Routledge.

6. Collette, Christine (forthcoming), 'Questions of Gender', in Brian Brivati and Richard Heffernan (eds), Labour's First Century, London: Macmillan.

7. Tabili, Laura (1994), 'The Construction of Racial Difference in Twentieth Century Britain', Journal of British Studies, 33 (1). Ramdin, Ron (1987), The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain, Oxford: Wildwood House.

8. Collette, The International Faith, p. 92.

9. Braunthal, J. (1967), The History of the International, 1914-1943, vol. 2, London.

10. Levenberg, S. (η. d.), Seventy Five Years, Tel Aviv: World Labour Zionist Movement.

11. Ibid.

12. Labour and Socialialist International miscellaneous papers, National Museum of Labour history, Manchester. Kaplansky to Shaw 28 July 1924 confirmed the adherence of the World Conference of Poale Zion to the reconstituted International.

13. International Federation of Trades Union papers, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, International Conference of Women Trades Unionists 1936 IFTU 134.

14. Levenberg, op. cit.

15. Thanks to Arieh Lebowitz for his internet announcement of the 100th anniversary of the Jewish Labor Bund celebrated in New York January-March 1998.

16. Gorni, op. cit., p. 20.

17. Ibid., passim.

18. Sozialistische Arbeiter Internationale papers, notes on Jewish Labour and Socialist Federation 'Poale Zion' for LSI congress 1928, SAI 134.

19. Ibid., to LSI, signed by M. Perlmann for group, 17 May 1933, SAI 4461.

20. Koestler, Arthur (1983), Promise and Fulfillment: Palestine 1917-1949, London: Papermac, p. 29. Cf. Gorni (1984), op. cit., p. 10: 'Zionism was a revolution against the political and economic situation of the Jews in Europe - but not against the culture, lifestyle and political philosophy of European society'.

21. William Gillies Correspondence, National Museum of Labour History, Manchester, Plavskin to British Labour Party, 25 April 1934, WG/Pal/42.

22. Elboim-Dror, Rachel (1994), 'Gender in Utopianism: the Zionist Case', History Workshop, 37, 99.

23. Ibid., p. 110.

24. William Gillies Correspondence, Rachel Katznelson-Rabashow to Labour Party, 25 March 1934, WG/Pal/44.

25. Elboim-Dror, op. cit., p. 111.

26. William Gillies Correspondence, Cicely Craven to James Middleton, 24 January 1934; Cicely Craven, Howard League for Penal Reform to Labour Party, 24 January 1934, WG/Pal/29.

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