Parties and Youth Movements

Siedlce was known in Poland as a Zionist city in the full sense of the word. In the book “twists of a generation” Abraham Lewinson writes:

In 1884, when the Biluim made Aliya to Israel with the slogan “Beit Yaacov Lehoo Ve’Nelcha” (O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us

In 1902, the “Tehia” (Rebirth) organization was founded in Warsaw. The organization was headed by Iitzhak Greenbaum, Jan Kirsrat, Yosef Shprintzak, Zelig Weitzman, M. Horowitz, Jacob Alswanger,

At that time, a branch of “Ha’Halutz” (pioneer) was established in Siedlce. Its founders were Haiim Socodolski, a man of the highest level who, despite his physical weakness was active

We were all educated on the propaganda pamphlets of the Bund, books and pamphlets about the heroic struggle of the Russian proletariat with Tsarism. We have

During the First World War, and especially after, “Ha’Halutz” movement started training the pioneers of our city for immigrating to Eretz-Israel. In the first pioneer Kibbutz

מ’ יודנגלויבן: תנועת העבודה השמאלנית בשדלץ בשדלץ, כמו בערים רבות אחרות בפולין, לא היתה תעשייה. מעט הפועלים שעבדו בעיר התרכזו בעיקר במפעלי העור והתפירה, ובכל-זאת,

Immediately upon the establishment of an independent Poland “Bund” has begun to organize the Jewish workers in Siedlce. “Bund” established the trade unions at 14 Warsaw

In 1915, when national-political awakening has started among Jewish youth, it also affected religious youth in Siedlce, including the Hasidic youth. The main initiator of