Volume 6 (2017)

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    Preface
    (2017) Hirik, Serhiy; Kuzmany, Börries
    The centennial of the Ukrainian revolution of 1917–1921 was commemorated in 2017. It evoked numerous academic events in Ukraine as well as in other countries and gave rise to the publication of books and special issues of academic journals. The Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies (UAJS) organized an international conference "Ukrainian Jews: Revolution and Post-Revolutionary Modernization. Politics. Culture. Society" that took place at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy on October 15–16, 2017. This event was supported by the European Association for Jewish Studies and the Nadav Foundation. The UAJS decided to publish a collection of selected papers presented at this conference as a separate volume within the Judaica Ukrainica Library book series. At the same time, Judaica Ukrainica (JU), as the only interdisciplinary journal in Jewish Studies in Ukraine, could not fail to react to the Revolution’s centennial. Several participants of the conference were invited to submit expanded and revised texts of their papers to JU. Those who gave talks about previously unknown sources gained an opportunity to prepare translations of these documents into Ukrainian.
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    The Split within the Poale Zion’s Left Wing: Two Versions of Jewish National Communism
    (2017) Hirik, Serhiy
    The organizations of the Jewish Social Democratic Workers’ Party (Poale Zion) in Ukraine and Belarus have experienced two major splits during the revolutionary events of the 1917–1920. The first of them was a classical form of the division into a left and a right wings. In 1917, the left one was formed although it did not become a separate party then. In 1919, the leaders of the Poale Zion’s right wing, who were sympathetic to the authority of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, had moved to Kamianets-Podilskyi and later to Tarnów in Poland together with the leaders of the Directorate of Ukraine. Unlike them, the representatives of the party’s left wing remained on the territory controlled by the Red Army. These groups received the status of a Soviet party. Thereby their activity in Soviet Ukraine and Belarus became legal. In 1919, the second split took place. The left wing of the JSDWP(PZ) was divided into two groups both considering themselves as leftist. The first one was the Jewish Communist Party (Poale Zion). In 1922, it has merged with the Bolsheviks. The other group has changed its name to the Jewish Communist Workers’ Party (Poale Zion) in 1923 and operated until 1928. These two parties had major ideological distinctions. We trace them in our paper basing on archival sources and the press published by these groups, as well as the documents of the Bolsheviks and some of Ukrainian national communist parties.