Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By richards on May 9, 2014

A Socialist Leader Dies of Heart Attack

Murray Kass/ Forward Association

Crooners: Israeli folk singing duo and married couple Hillel and Aviva Raveh recorded on the Smithsonian Folkways label and toured New York City in the 1950s with Hillel on flute and Aviva on a timbrel.

1914 100 years ago

A Lion of Socialism is Dead

Daniel De Leon, leader of the Socialist Labor Party, died of a heart attack at Mount Sinai Hospital. The news that De Leon is dead will call forth the deepest feelings of sadness in every Socialists heart. A lion has passed. Figures such as De Leon are few in our movement, not only in America, but throughout the world, as well. Born on the island of Curacao to a family of Sephardic Jews, and sent to Europe to study when he was a young man, he later settled in the United States and founded a Spanish-language newspaper. He later attended Columbia Law School. During the 1880s he became interested in revolutionary Marxism and began working as the editor of the New York Daily People. We at the Forward had our differences with De Leon, but now is not the time to discuss them.

1939 75 years ago

Retaliation after White Paper

After the publication of the British governments white paper on Palestine, English soldiers are standing guard, awaiting outbreaks of violence. Extremist Arabs are furious that the British did not give them more concessions, and are expected to attack both English and Jewish targets. The Jewish population, which is also very unhappy with the results of the latest white paper, is planning a general strike. Special police battalions have been stationed in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Jaffa and Haifa. The British military has also accused the Revisionist Zionists of destroying British property. But even the rest of the Zionists are spoiling for a fight: Jews prepare yourselves for a battle for your national home! a leaflet from the Histadrut announced. Even the rabbis are in on the act: Leading Ashkenazi and Sephardic rabbis have declared fast days, special prayers and shofar blowing in connection to the white paper.

1964 50 years ago

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Nikita Khrushchev Denounces Israel to Egyptians

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