Arbeter-ring in Yisroel – Brith Haavoda


The Arbeter-ring in Yisroel – Brith Haavoda was the Israeli branch of the International Jewish Labor Bund, launched in 1951 and disbanded in 2019.

Staff

Secretaries

Its first secretary was Isachar Artuski, a former Polish Communist who had joined the Bund in 1935. He was also the founder and first editor of Lebns Fragn and a correspondent of an American Trotskyist magazine “Labor Action”.
Since 2006 the present secretary has been Josef Fraind, who immigrated to Israel from Warsaw in 1952.

Other

Bella Bryks-Klein has been the Director of Cultural Events and Library since January 2007 to the present.

Electoral participation

The Israeli Bund chapter presented a list at the 1959 Knesset election, under the name Socialist Union, but failed to win a seat with only 1,322 votes.

Lebns Fragn

The Israeli Bundist magazine was Lebns Fragn, founded in May 1951 by Isachar Artuski, the responsible editor was Ben-Zion "Bentsl" Tsalevitsh, who moved to Mandatory Palestine in 1922. After Artuski's death in November 1971, Yitskhok Luden became its editor. Ceased publication in 2014.

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