Labor Zionist Organization of America

Title: Labor Zionist Organization of America

Inclusive Dates: 1904-1967

ID: RG 606

Extent Information

50'11"; 47 bankers boxes

Creators

Labor Zionist Organization of America

Administrative/Biographical History

U.S. branch of the Socialist Zionist Party, Poalei Zion, founded in 1905 at a convention in Baltimore. In 1907 the LZOA joined Poalei Zion organizations in other lands to form IHUD - World Confederation Poalei Zion. In 1912 the LZOA founded a fraternal order, the Jewish National Workers' Alliance (known also as Farband-Labor Zionist Order). In the 1920s the LZOA organized the Histadrut campaign and the women's socialist Zionist organization Pioneer Women. In 1935 Habonim was organized as the youth division of LZOA. LZOA is a member of the World Zionist Organization. It publishes *Yidisher kemfer* (from 1906), and *Jewish Frontier* (from 1934).

Subjects (links to similar collections)

Education
Israel
Palestine
Politics and Political Parties
United States
Women and Women's Organizations
Youth Groups
Zionism

Forms of Material (links to similar genres)

Documents - Records

Finding Aid Information

Inventory: English, 82 pp., typed

Administrative Information

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Other Formats: MK 376 (126)

Description: Correspondence, reports, minutes, proceedings and other materials of the LZOA National Conventions, Executive Committee, other lay committees and administrative departments relating to all LZOA organizational activities and to the political and ideological issues of the Labor Zionist movement. The records consist of the following series: general correspondence arranged in chronological or name/subject files; correspondence with LZOA branches and members (geographic files); Pioneer Women files, 1913-1952; Farband Yiddish schools files, 1911-1947; Habonim and Young Paolei-Zion files, 1914-1954. Included is correspondence with Zionist organizations, Israeli political parties, United Jewish Appeal, Jewish Education Committee, Jewish Welfare Board, Jewish National Fund, Jewish Agency, American Jewish Committee.