Essay On Jewish Socialism

Finally in 1905, Jewish socialist started an independent party. They worked in tandem with the PDSP, and addressed issues of Jewish workers. They rejected the Palestine platform, and advocated for cultural autonomy. Jewish socialist would often avoid this questions regarding Jewish ethnicity. For large portion of socialist history, Jews tended to fall into the capitalist mold. Industry leaders such as Rothschild, and the large numbers of Jews who owned factories would make them the silent advisory of socialism. The Jews were not the only socialist who ignored the Jewish question, prominent socialists leaders such as Marx and Trotsky were themselves Jewish. Ignoring the Jewish question was marketable amongst socialists, for any open discussion of the problems would be counterintuitive to their message. Radical members of the Jewish socialist …show more content…
Even though Jewish involvement in Zionism and Socialism had differing solutions to the Jewish question, their existence seeks to fill a mutual need. After the Revolutions of 1848 the Galician Jews had been given the tools for political activities through the legislation of the Habsburg State and the sweeping liberalization of the 1860s. The Galician Jewery saw the societal need for national rights to address their long lasting identity crisis. Jews who felt that recognition of Judaism as not only religion, but a nationality turned to Zionism. Jews who held a distaste for their Jewish tradition, especially for those Jews such as the Rothchilds who were able to modernize, turned to Socialism. They felt that if workers won out against the oppression of the politically and economically elite bourgeois, than the question of Jewish modernization would follow