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Trotsky's Knowledge of Yiddish,
Forward Articles in Biography
Freie Arbeiter Shtimme Folds,
Was Oldest U.S. Yiddish Paper
Leon Trotsky must have
had a knowledge of Yiddish.
This is the assumption of
Robert Payne, in his biogra-
phy, "The Life and Death of
Leon Trotsky" (McGraw
Hill Book Co.)
After describing Trotsky's
home life, his parentage, his
oldest Yiddish newspaper in
the United States, Freie Ar-
beiter Shtimme (Free Voice
of Labor), ceased pub-
lication Nov. 30 because of
insoluble financial
problems.
In its 87 years of pub-
lication, the organ of Jewish
anarchist philosophy had a
peak weekly circulation of
30,000. Its last press run as
a monthly was 1,700 copies.
Ahrne Thorne, the editor
who has comprised the pa-
per's editorial staff, said the
newspaper could not sup-
port itself from its first day
of publication. Because the
paper could afford to pay
only a bookkeeper, Thorne
volunteered his services,
starting 47 years ago.
studies, which included
Jewish subjects under spe-
cial tutors, Payne states:
"Since he was a Jew who
conversed with Jews, it is
likely that he spoke Yiddish
.. . which was their com-
mon language all over Rus-
sia."
He was, of course, the
arch revolutionary, and be-
fore World War I he evi-
dence his "doctrinaire
bent" on New York's East
Side.
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That's when he wrote arti-
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the Yiddish Jewish Daily
Forward. An article in the
latter is quoted at length.
Did he write in Yiddish?
This is not affirmed, and
Payne mentions the role of
Ludwig Lore, who was
Trotsky's interpreter and
translator.
Trotsky's tragic end is
told in the collective data
provided by Payne. The
complexities and enigmas
of the man are given em-
phasis in the Payne biogra-
phy.„Payne notes:
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Thorne said that the
Shtimme was started to
help newly-arriving Jewish
immigrants with their cul-
tural, social and ecor
problems and that it i
a
key role in the formation of
the International Ladies
Garment Workers Union.
THE UJA CONCLAVE: The four-day national confer-
ence of the United Jewish Appeal is taking place in New
York this Hanuka week in an atmosphere of hope for
Arab-Israel peace deliberations. However, the assembled
community leaders are at the same time well aware of
the fact that Israel has this year devalued its currency
several times. and that this signifies that UJA funds will
have to be forthcoming in 1978 even to a greater extent.
SYMBOL OF UNITY: The UJA today continues to be the
symbol of unity in the American Jewish community.
Contributing to this is the strong link between the Jewish
federations and the UJA—a link that was strengthened by
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Max M. Fisher in the years when he was general chairman
of the UJA and later president of the Council of Jewish
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The importance of this link was emphasized recently by
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Leonard R. Strelitz, the present general chairman of the
UJA, in addressing federation leaders. The Council Of
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Jewish Federations and the United Jewish Appeal, he said,
are like two arms which may function independently but
serve the same body. The UJA receives funds from 217
large communities affiliated with the CJF and from 472
small communities served by the CJF.
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There are today about 1 million donors to the UJA.
Strelitz thinks that this is not enough. In his estimate, 50
percent of the Jewish families in this country do not
"All That The Name Implies"
contribute. He wants to reach them through education to
commitment.
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proudest achievements over the past decade has been
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raising more pledges in "no-war" time, in the years 1971
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and 1972, than in wartime 1967. In the 1978—hopefully a "no-
war- year—the goal of the national campaign is $700
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million, of which the UJA will receive about 60 percent of
REMOVE AND INSTALL
the federated community campaign pledges together with
the total non-federated community campaign pledges, less
891-1818
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local expenses.
Reverse Charges
UJA funds sent to Israel do not go for military purposes
but for humanitiarian and cultural activities, immigration
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The UJA campaign year for 1978 has actually begun
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already even before the calendar year starts. Large
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contributions have already been made for the coming year
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by steady, generous givers. The UJA National Conference
3 blks. E. of 1-75
Caniff/Holbrook exit
now will sanction the UJA plans for the year. It will also
hear full reports from an Israeli Cabinet member, Ariel
Free Parkin• in Rear
Sharon, on what is going on between President Sadat and
Trade Member
Prime Minister Begin. A plenary session on Soviet Jewry
American Society of
will take place at the conference, in expectation of larger
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Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union to Israel and to
(A.S.I.D.)
this country.
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Until his retirement three
years ago, Thorne earned a
living as a lithographer for
the Jewish Daily Forward,
the 80-year-old only Yiddish
daily still being published.
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