The Jewish Social Democratic Labour Party (Poalei Zion) was a Zionist socialist political party

Political party

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 in the Russian Empire

Russian Empire

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. The party was founded in 1906. It was part of the international Poalei Zion movement. The party was illegal until 1917.

The party suffered a major split in August 1919, when a dissident group formed the Jewish Communist Party (Poalei Zion). After the JCP(PZ) had merged into the Communist Party in 1922, the JSDLP(PZ) changed name to Jewish Communist Labour Party (Poalei Zion)

Jewish Communist Labour Party (Poalei Zion)

The Jewish Communist Labour Party was the new name, from 1922 to its dissolution in 1928, of the Jewish Social Democratic Labour Party , a Zionist socialist political party founded in 1906, part of the international Poalei Zion movement.The JSDLP had suffered a major split in August 1919, when a...

. The party was dissolved in 1928.

Participation in Ukrainian politics

The party was represented in the Ukrainian Central Rada

Tsentralna Rada

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 in 1917 and in the Council of National Ministers of the Ukrainian National Republic (executive branch of the Ukrainian National Republic) the Poalist Abraham Revutsky was minister of Jewish affairs. Another Poalist, Solomon Goldelman, was deputy minister of trade and industry and of labour in the Directory of the Ukrainian National Republic (state authority created by the Ukrainian National Union on 14 November 1918).

See also

• Jewish Communist Party (Poalei Zion)
• Jewish Communist Union (Poalei Zion)
  Jewish Communist Union (Poalei Zion)
  Jewish Communist Union , Komverband was the name taken by the Left World Union of Poalei Zion in 1921. Komverband had members in Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Austria, Italy, Poland and other countries. In 1922 Komverband shifted its headquarters from Vienna to Danzig, in preparation for a party...
  
  
• Mifleget Poale Zion VeHaHugim HaMarksistim beEretz Yisrael
  Mifleget Poale Zion VeHaHugim HaMarksistim beEretz Yisrael
  Mifleget Poale Zion VeHaHugim HaMarksistim beEretz Yisrael was the youth group of a faction of Poale Zion, the labour Zionist movement, in Mandate Palestine in the 1930s, which later merged into the Revolutionary Communist League...
  
  
• Poale Zion
  Poale Zion
  Poale Zion was a Movement of Marxist Zionist Jewish workers circles founded in various cities of the Russian Empire about the turn of the century after the Bund rejected Zionism in 1901.-Formation and early years:Poale Zion parties and organisations were started across the Jewish diaspora in the...