Ber Borochov,
The Jubilee of the Jewish Labor Movement
(1916)
“ At all points enroute, through Austria, Germany, France, England, and Holland, he came in contact with comrades from all countries, weaving a spiritual thread between east and west. In that way the seed of revolutionary thought was carried to the four corners of the world. The flow of migration spread the Jewish labor movement everywhere. ”
Ber Borochov,
The Jubilee of the Jewish Labor Movement
(1916)
“ The fruit of proletarian thought from different countries was carried over imperceptible, spiritual paths from one end of the world to the other. Socialist ideas were brought from tyrannized Russia to free England and America. Filled there with a new content, they returned through London, Koenigsberg, and Vienna to the Ghettos of Galicia and Russia. A worker who had just gone on strike in New York could exchange new impressions with a friend who would soon be striking in Bialystok or Vilna. His head full of vague longings, the Jewish worker set out on the long road. ”
Ber Borochov,
The Jubilee of the Jewish Labor Movement
(1916)
“ The Jewish labor movement in Russia is fifty years younger than the Russian labor movement, yet it has had its interesting aspects from the very beginning. The above-mentioned women’s tailors association functioned not only as a regular fraternal organization, offering financial aid or sick and death benefits to its members, but also led the struggle of the workers against the employers. ”
