The Ashkenazi Revolution

310KhrushchevNikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev(April 15 [O.S. April 3] 1894 – September 11, 1971) led the Soviet Union duringpart of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of theSoviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, orPremier, from 1958 to 1964.LaborLabor Zionism can be describedas the major stream of the left wing of the Zionist movement. It was, for manyyears, the most significant trend among Zionists and Zionist organizationalstructure. It saw itself as the Zionist sector of the historic Jewish labormovements of Eastern and Central Europe, eventually developing local unitsin most countries with sizeable Jewish populations. Unlike the "political Zionist"tendency founded by Theodor Herzl and advocated by Chaim Weizmann, LaborZionists did not believe that a Jewish state would be created simply byappealing to the international community or to a powerful nation suchas Britain, Germany or the Ottoman Empire. Rather, Labor Zionists believed thata Jewish state could only be created through the efforts of the Jewish workingclass settling in Palestine and constructing a state through the creation of aprogressive Jewish society with rural kibbutzim and moshavim and an urbanJewish proletariat.Labor Zionism grew in size and influence and eclipsed "political Zionism" bythe 1930s both internationally and within the British Mandate of Palestine whereLabor Zionists predominated among many of the institutions of the preindependenceJewish community Yishuv, particularly the trade union federationknown as the Histadrut. The Haganah – the largest Zionist paramilitary defenseforce – was a Labor Zionist institution and was used on occasion (such asduring the Hunting Season) against right-wing political opponents or to assistthe British Administration in capturing Jewish terrorists.Labor FederationThe National Labour Federationin the Land of Israel (NLF) is a national trade union center in Israel. It wasfounded in 1934 under the basic teachings of Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau,and Zeev Jabotinsky. As opposed to Histadrut, the NLF believes in theseparation of employers and trade unions. It is not certain that theKatsenelson is referring to this organization in chapter 14 section 7;what he wrote, literally, was “the histadrut economy”. It seemed mostlikely that he was referring to the National Labor Federation.LadinoJudaeo-Spanish in Israelcommonly referred to as Ladino, and known locally as Judezmo, Djudeo-