Difference between revisions of "Glasgow Poale Zion"

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1930 - 'The Workers’ Circle was not able to establish a Yiddish school in Glasgow, but Yiddish was not driven out of Jewish life in the city. It was still part of Jewish working class culture. At May rallies the Labour movement invited Yiddish speakers, they had done so since the beginning of the century and continued to do this in the 1930s. On another occasion, three speakers addressed an open air meeting of the Poale Zion in August 1930. Only one of them spoke in English: Misha Louvish. The meeting was conducted in Yiddish172. In a report on a convention in Leeds in 1933, the Glasgow representative of the Workers’ Circle was able to say that a “gratifying feature had been the prevalence of Yiddish, which was spoken and understood by young and old a l i k e . ” 173.^[1]
1940s - 'One of the great Zionist activists in Glasgow was Misha Louvish, who was chairman of the Glasgow Poale Zion and who migrated to Israel in 1949.'^[2]
1942 - Harry Furst - Chairman, Joseph Harry Barnett, Secretary.^[3]
1952-3 - Glasgow Poale Zion 6, Dixon Street, Glasgow
- Hon. President- H. Furst
- Hon. Vice-President— I. Mail Chairman— T. Lucatz
- Vice-Chairman— S. Mail
- Treasurer- A. Benjamin
- Hon Secretary-Miss E. Rosenheim, 268, Kenmure Street, S.1. Tel.: Pollock 1836^[4]

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+*1930 - 'The Workers’ Circle was not able to establish a Yiddish school in Glasgow, but Yiddish was not driven out of Jewish life in the city. It was still part of Jewish working class culture. At May rallies the Labour movement invited Yiddish speakers, they had done so since the beginning of the century and continued to do this in the 1930s. On another occasion, three speakers addressed an open air meeting of the [[Poale Zion]] in August 1930. Only one of them spoke in English: [[Misha Louvish]]. The meeting was conducted in Yiddish172. In a report on a convention in Leeds in 1933, the Glasgow representative of the Workers’ Circle was able to say that a “gratifying feature had been the prevalence of Yiddish, which was spoken and understood by young and old a l i k e . ” 173.<ref>Braber, p. 135</ref>
 *1940s - 'One of the great Zionist activists in Glasgow was [[Misha Louvish]], who was chairman of the [[Glasgow Poale Zion]] and who migrated to Israel in 1949.'<ref>https://www.jpost.com/magazine/jews-in-kilts-376195</ref>
 *1942 - [[Harry Furst]] - Chairman, [[Joseph Harry Barnett]], Secretary.<ref>Jewish Echo 25th April 1941</ref>