128SAOTHAR 13'The Dublin Jewish Dramatic Society Presents(in aid of the Ukrainian Jews' Relief Fund)the following playsSpecial Pleading by Bernard DuffySpreading the News by Lady GregoryDer DoJaor (in Yiddish) by Sholom AleichemAbigail by David Pinskion Sunday, April 2, 1922'54Twenty years after James Connolly's election campaign among Dublin's Jewish community, hisson Roddy had maintained that link. And since it is a tradition among Jews to mark a birthday with theYiddish wish to livebiz hundert un tzvantzik! (for 120 years), it is particularly appropriate to now markthe 120th anniversary of James Connolly' s birth in 1868 with a reproduction of his Election Manifestoto the Jewish workers of Dublin in their own Yiddish language.Manus O'RiordanNotes1. The Municipal Elections, January 15th, 1902, Irish Jewish Museum archives.2. James Connolly Election Manifesto (in the Yiddish language), ILB 300 p.ll Item 81, National Library ofIreland (NLI).•3. Sid Resnick to Manus O'Riordan, 12 May, 1987.4. 'The Ideal Government of the Jew', Workers' Republic, 24 September, 1898.5. Workers'Republic, 30 December, 1899.6. Manus O'Riordan, 'Anti-Semitism in Irish Politics - The Sinn Fein Tradition', The Irish Jewish Yearbook,1984-1985.7. James A. Stevenson, 'James Connolly and Daniel de Leon: The Personal Aspects of de Leon's influenceamong Irish and British Militants', 1978, (unpublished).8. James Connolly to lC. Matheson, 27 September, 1907, O'Brien Papers, NLI.9. The Socialist, May, 1903.10. ibid.11. Justice, 7 October, 1899. Hyndman subsequently reversed his pro-Boer stand in favour of the Britishimperialist position.12. Justice, 21'October, 1899. For a detailed account of this controversy see Edmund Silberner, 'British Socialismand the Jews', Historia Judaica, April, 1952.13. Andrew Rothstein to Manus O'Riordan, 19 February, 1987. Born in 1898, Andrew Rothstein is a foundationmember (1920) of the Cornmunist Party of Great Britain.14. Walter Kendall, The Revolutionary Movement in Britain, 1900-21, (London, 1969), p. 332.15. Irish Socialist Republican Party minutes, October 5, 14 and 21, 1902, NLI.16. Boris Kahan to James Connolly, 19 October, 1902, O'Brien Papers, NLI.17. ISRP minutes, November 14 and 23,1901, NLI .. 18. C. Desmond Greaves, The Life and Times of James Connolly, (London, 1961), p. 110.19. Census of PopUlation, 1911. .20. The United Irishman, 23 January, 1904. Quoted more fully by Manus O'Riordan, in Dublin Jewish News,March-April 1979 and in Morning Freiheit (New York), 17 February, 1980.21. Louis Hyman, The Jews of Ireland from Earliest Times to 1910, (Shannon, 1972), p. 161.22. ISRP minutes, 23 July, 1901, NLI. .23. Census of Population street-returns 1901 and 1911, Public Records Office.24. Maurice Levitas to Manus O'Riordan, 25 October, 1986. Included in 'Irish and Jewish Volunteers in theSpanish Anti-Fascist War', a 50th anniversary lecture by Manus O'Riordanwith particular reference to thestory of an Irish-born Jewish Volunteer, Maurice Levitas, delivered at the Irish Jewish Museum, 15 November,1987. .25. Louis Harrap, 'The Bund Revisited', Jewish Currents, (New York), February and April, 1974.
DOCUMENT STUDY 12926. The Workers' Republic, 24 November, 1900.27. Manus Q'Riordan, 'Jewish Trade Unionism in Dublin', in Q'Riordan and Pat Feeley, The Rise and Fall of IrishAnti-Semitism, (Dublin 2nd edition, 1985), p. 31.28. Census enumerators' returns, 1901 and 1911, Public Records Office.29. File of the Irish Garment Workers' Trade Union (formerly the International Tailors, Machinists and Pressers'Trade Union), Registry of Friendly Societies. The 1915 EXeCutivecOnsistedofPatrick Doy1e, Bamet Sigman,Edward Baker, Harris Guttenberg, Bamet Glass, Morris Goldstein and WaIter Carpenter, Secretary.30. Census enumerators' returns, 1911, Public Records Office.31. Workers' Republic, March, 1902.32. Wood Quay Ward Election Address, January, 1903.33. Andrew Rothstein, Lenin in Britain, (London, 1970), p. 14.34. ibid., pp. 22 and 26.35. C. Desmond Greaves, The Irish Transport and General Workers' Union - The Formative Years, (Dublin,1982), pp. 203, 239 and 350.36. Introduction by Manus Q'Riordan (ed.) to Frederick Ryan: Sinn Fein and Reaction, (Dublin, 1984), pp. 4 to8. Also pp. 31 to 35. For a biographical study of Theodore Rothstein see the essay by David Burke in JohnSlatter (eds.), From the Other Shore: Russian Political Emigrants in Britain, 1880-1917, (London, 1984), pp.81-97.37. Andrew Rothstein to Manus O'Riordan, London, 20 April, 1988.38. United Irishman, 28 May, 1904. Reprinted in full in Ryan, op.cit., pp. 13-14 and in O'Riordan and Fee1ey,op.cit., p. 12.39. SPI minutes 2, 15 and 22 January, 1906, NU .. Reverend Abraham Gudansky, a native of Lithuania, was theMinister of Dublin's premier synagogue at Adelaide Road. His son, the future District Justice Herman Good,would be a candidate for the Irish Labour Party in the 1944 General Election. Good's election poster is ondisplay in the Irish Jewish Museum, Walworth Rd. (off Victoria St.), Dublin 8.40. SPI minutes, 22 January, 1906.41. O'Riordan, 'Jewish Trade Unionism in Dublin', op.cit., pp. 32-36.42. Manus O'Riordan, 'The Tailors and Pressers Union', Dublin Jewish News, July 1987 ..43. Freeman's Journal, 8 July, 1909.44. William O'Brien diaries, 1 and 8 July, 1909, NU.45. Introduction by Manus Q'Riordan (ed.) to Frederick Ryan, Socialism, Democracy and the Church, (Dublin,1984), pp. 3 and 4.46. SPI minutes, 6 February, 6 March, 7 July, 1911, NU.47. Census enumerators' returns, 1911, Public Records Office.48. ibid., Isaac Baker No. 11, Abraham Sevitt No. 17 and Morris Taylor No. 29 Martin Street.49. ibid., Aaron Klein No. 14 and Harry Guttenberg No. 30 Warren Street.50. Leaflet for ITMPTU public meeting on 7 July, 1913. O'Brien Papers, NU.51. ITMPTU Returns, 1913, Registry of Friendly Societies, File 274T.52. ibid., 1912 to 1915 incl. Also certificate of marriage at the Camden Street synagogue on 16 August, 1914,between Leah Rick and Harry Levitas, a tailor's presser, of 33 Martin Street, who was a member of theITMPTU.53. Workers' Republic, 21 January, 1922.54. Workers' Republic, 1 April, 1922.Document: A Connolly Address To Dublin Jewish Workers(Note: Thefollowing is the 1902 Yiddish leaflet authored by Boris Kahan, Secretary of the East LondonJewish branch of the SDF, as translated for Saothar by Sid Resnick, of the US Yiddish socialistnewspaper, Morning Freiheit, on 12 May, 1987, the 71 st anniversary ofConnolly' s execution.)
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