Jewish Political Parties and Organizations Election Campaign Leaflets RG-31.021 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW Washington, DC 20024-2126 Tel. (202) 479-9717 Email: reference@ushmm.org Descriptive Summary Title: Jewish Political Parties and Organizations Election Campaign Leaflets Dates: 1904-1919 RG Number: RG-31.021 Accession Number: 2003.262 Extent: 2 microfiche. Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, German, Yiddish, Hebrew, Swedish, and English. Administrative Information Access: No restriction on access. Reproduction and Use: Publication by a third party requires a formal approval of the Judaica Institute in Kiev, Ukraine. Publication requires a mandatory citation of the original source. Preferred Citation: [file name/number], [reel number], RG-31.021, Jewish Political Parties and Organizations Election Campaign Leaflets, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, Washington, DC. Acquisition Information: Purchased from the Instytut iu daïky (Judaica Institute) Kiev, Ukraine. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project purchased and transferred the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in April 2003. 1
Custodial History Existence and location of originals: The original records are held by the Instytut iu daïky, Belorusskaya 34-21, Kyiv, Ukraine 04119. Tel. 011 380 44 248 8917. More information about this repository can be found at www.judaica.kiev.ua. Processing History: Aleksandra B. Borecka Scope and Content of Collection Contains Jewish political parties' and organizations' election campaign leaflets, produced between 1904 and 1919. System of Arrangement This collection is arranged thematically. Indexing Terms Propaganda -- Ukraine. Political parties -- Ukraine. Political campaigns -- Ukraine. Jews -- Ukraine -- Politics and government. Ukraine -- Politics and government. Leaflets. Inventory: (Note: Proper names are transliterated from the Cyrillic of the original finding aid) 1. Central Committee of the Bund: Concerning mobilization (anti-war agitation). Russian, both sides. July 1904. 2. All-Jewish Workers Union in Lithuania, Poland, Russia (Central Committee of the Bund): Tsarist alms for the Jews. (Pamphlet against the declaration of Nikolay II of ll August). Russian, both sides. Sept. 1904 3. Central Committee of the Bund: Pogroms and mobilization. (Down with war!). Russian, Yiddish, both sides. Jan. 1905. 4. Central Committee of the Bund: To battle! (Comrades! The revolution has begun!) Russian, Yiddish, both sides. Jan. 1905 2
5. Socialist Jewish Workers Party: To all workers (Long live the armed uprising!). Russian, June 1907 6. Simferopol committee of the Jewish Social-Democratic Workers Party (Poaley-Tsion): To all citizens (against allowing Sunday trade). Russian, both sides. 7 Oct. 1907 7. Odessa committee of the Bund: Who are they? (against the expropriators). Russian. 1 May 1908 8. Odessa Social-Democratic Committee of the Bund: No. 1.[ no further description in Russian finding aid]. Russian 28 Feb. [no year] 9. Bulletin of the foreign committee of the Bund: No. 1 [no further description in Russian finding aid]. Russian, 6 pp. Sept. 1916. Geneva. 10. Jewish welfare representative in the Kiev city administration: Free Jewish Community Grigoriy Evseevich Gurovich. Russian. 4 pp. June 1917 Kiev. 11, Ukrainian SDRP [Social-Democratic Workers Party]: Comrades! Let us create our own newspapers, our own publishing houses. Ukrainian, Yiddish. Khar kov committee of the Ukrainian SDRP, Khar kov committee of the Bund. 12. Kiev organization of the RSDPShch (Mensheviks), the Bund, the SP (leftist) (the Polish Socialist Party): Jewish citizens! Vote for the general list No. 1 of the socialist parties. Russian, Yiddish. duplicate 13. Jewish people s party Yiddishe Folkspartey: Jewish citizens! Artisans and trader! Vote for list No. 4 Russian, Yiddish duplicate. The elections of 31 Dec. 1917 and 1 Jan. 1918 in the Kiev Jewish community. 15 [sic]. Jewish Social-Democratic Workers Party (Poaley Tsion): Vote for list No. 7 Russian, Yiddish. duplicate. Podol sk electoral district. Elections to the constituent assembly. 16. General Jewish Workers Union Bund : Vote for list No. 9 Russian, Yiddish, duplicate. Kiev electoral district. Elections to the constituent assembly 17. ESDRP (Poaley-Tsion): Vote for list No. 9 Russian. Duplicate. Volynskiy electoral district. Elections for the constituent assembly. 18. ESDRP (Poaley-Tsion): Vote for list No. 17. Russian. Elections to the constituent assembly. 19. Bund: Vote for list No. 11 Russian, Yiddish, duplicate. Ekaterinoslavskiy electoral district. 3
20. Poaley-Tsion: Who is with us?...who is against us?...vote for list No. 3. Russian, 2 duplicates. Kiev 21. Kiev Zionist organization: Jewish women! Vote for list No. 6. Russian, 2 duplicates 22. Jewish National Bloc: Jewish citizens! Vote for list No. 10. Russian, 3 duplicates. Elections to the constituent assembly. 2 copies. 23. Khar kov oblast committee of the RSDRP: To all Jewish workers Comrades! Vote for the Bund list No. 5 Russian 2 duplicates. 7,8,9 Jan. Khar kov district elections to the All- Russia Jewish congress. 24. Democratic bloc of Jewish voters: Vote for list No. 9. Russian, duplicate 20 July pre-election meeting in Pushche-Voditsa. 25. Russian Communist Party, Central Bureau of the Jewish Communist Section of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party: On the goals and organization of Jewish activities in the party. Russian, both sides, duplicate. 19 Dec. 1919 26. The SR party, the All-Russian Council of Peasant Deputies, the SERP, the Ukrainian interparty group: Women and men! We call on you to vote in the elections for the city Duma. Vote for list No, 3 Russian, duplicate, city of Melitopol 27. City committee of a Zionist organization: On 30 Dec. there will be a pre-election meeting in Podol. All Jews! Vote for list No. 3 Russian, Yiddish. duplicated. Elections to positions in the Kiev Jewish community. 28. Zionist organization: Jewish citizens! Vote for list No. 18. Russian 29. Kiev city Jewish national election committee: Jewish citizens! All votes for list No. 2 Russian. Elections to the constituent assembly. 30. Kiev city Zionist committee: On 16 Dec.there will be a pre-election meeting. Vote for list No. 6. Russian. Elections to the self-government of the Jewish community. 31. The United Democratic Bloc of Jewish Electors: Municipal program. Russian, duplicate. On the participation of Jews in the Kiev city Duma. 32. Kiev city committee for providing assistance to victims of pogroms: Jewish brothers!..(appeals for money, clothes, shoes, foodstuffs for the victims). Russian, duplicate. Kiev 10 March 1919 33. Kiev district elections committee: Lists of candidates for the constituent assembly. Lists Nos. 1-17. Russian. No. 2-Jewish National Committee, No. 3-OESR Party, No. 4- Poaley- Tsion. 4
34. SERP: Jews! Vote for list No. 2. Russian, elections to the All-Russian Jewish Congress. 35. Kiev Zionist organization: List No. 6 of candidates to the Council of the Jewish community (43 candidates). Russian, duplicate 36: Ukrainian Central Electoral Bureau of Zionist Organizations: Dear comrades! (concerning elections to the Ukrainian constituent assembly 26-28 Dec) Russian, both sides 37. Jewish Social-Democratic Party (Poaley-Tsion): List of candidates for the constituent assembly. 5 candidates on list No. 4. Kiev election district. 38. VERS (Bund): List No. 5 (8 candidates) Russian, Yiddish. Podol election district. 39. Rostov committee of the OESRP (Poaley-Tsion): Meeting on the question of elections to the city Duma. Russian. 1 July 40. Mariupol committee of Poaley-Tsion: Jewish voters! Vote for list No. 3. Russian, 3 pp. 41. Jewish socialist bloc: Citizens! Vote for our list No. 2. Russian 42. Democratic Bloc of Jewish Voters: Jewish citizens! Vote for list No. 8. Russian. 23 July elections to the Kiev city Duma. 43. Kiev City Zionist Committee: Announcement of a general meeting of Zionists on Nov. 15 in the Pedagogical Museum. Russian, Yiddish, Hebrew. 44. Adas Isroel society: Jewish citizens! Hurry to cast your ballots. Russian, elections to the Kiev city Duma. 45. [no source named in Rusian finding aid]: To the Jewish population of the city of Khar kov. Comrades and citizens! Vote for the United Jewish Socialist Workers Party. Russian, elections in the Khar kov Jewish community. 46. RSDRP; Bund: Comrade workers! (appeal to Jewish workers to celebrate the 20 th anniversary of the founding of the Bund. Russian, Yiddish 47. Head of Prilukskiy uezd M. Belogrud: Appeal to the population of the city of Priluki not to succumb to the anti-semitic propaganda of the the Bolshevik pogromists Russian 48. Information bureau of the army of the Ukrainian People s Republic: Toward Russian, Jewish, and Polish democracy in Ukraine. Long live the united democratic front! Russian, Polish, Yiddish. 49. Interim central bureau of the All-Russia Zionist military organization: To Jewish soldiers. Russian, Petrograd. 5
50. Chairman of the Interim workers and peasants government Rakovskiy: To the workers, peasants and soldiers of the Red Army be against anti-semitism! Russian 51. Artillery general Irmanov, second-lieutenant Muromskiy: From a Jew to Jews. Jewish citizens! (an anti-bolshevik appeal of the Volunteer Army to unite with the best sons of Russia for the rebirth of a great and free Russia). Russian 52. [no source mentioned in Russian finding aid]: Appeal. Brother and sister Jews! Sign up as members of the Jewish Society of Volunteer Army Service. Russian 53. [no source in finding aid] Remember with [election list] No. 18, Zionists will enter the constituent assembly [Ukrainian] 54. Organization bureau of the Culture League of Kiev: To all sections of the Culture League (appeal for close ties to Jewish workers and their organizations. Yiddish, Russian 55. [no source given]: Comrade soldiers! Vote for list No. 1. Russian 56. Adas Isroel society and unaffiliated orthodox Jews: Brother Jews! Vote for list No. 1. Russian. Elections to the Khar kov city Duma. 57. Kiev city Zionist committee: Notice of meeting of Zionist-[word related to shekels ] to be held on 1 Jan. 1917 in the building of the Grand Synagogue. Russian 58. Kiev oblast committee of the Union for the Rebirth of Russia: Appeal on the liberation of Kiev from the invasion of Bolshevist pogromists. Appeal not to believe provocative rumos, not to succumb to anti-semitic propaganda. Russian 59. Poaley-Sion: Vote for list No. 2 the United ESRP. Russian. Ekaterinoslavskiy election district. 60. Group of 11 Jewish workers: Open letter to Jewish workers of Odessa calling on them to protest against the Black Hundreds. Russian, Yiddish 61. Kiev Zionist organization: Brother Jews! Vote for list No. 6. Russian, Yiddish. Elections of 31 Dec. 1917 and 1 Jan. 1918 to positions in the Kiev Jewish community. 62. Poaley-Sion: Declaration to all Jewish workers. Russian 63. Jewish National Election Committee: Female Jewish citizens! Vote for list No. 6. Russian elections to the constituent assembly. 64. Ukrainian section of the central committee of the Young Palestine Union Akhdut Utkhiya: appeal to join the Union. Russian. Meeting to establish the Union held on Jan. 18 6
65. Municipal commission of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, the Ukrainian Social Revolutionary Party, and the United Jewish Socialist Workers Party: Comrades and citizens! Vote for list No. 6. Russian 66. Municipal commission of above parties: Comrades and citizens: There must be no deserters, no people who fail to vote. Vote for list No. 6. Russian, duplicated 67. Barskaya organization of the United Jewish Socialist Workers Party: Comrades and citizens, have you voted in the elections for the city Duma? Russian 68. Jewish Nationalist bloc: Our list is No. 10 three candidates. Russian 69. SERP: What will SERP demand at the All-Russia Jewish Congress? Vote for list No. 2. Russian 7