Fifteen years of the Communist Party. [Cover title: 15 years...] by Bittelman, Alexander - 1934

Text is clean and unmarked in covers that are intact and not torn but have some smudging. Condition very good for the pamphlet's age. "Never before in all its history has Jewish labor, as part of American labor, had greater responsibilities to fulfil....it still remains true that the chief problem and task of the Jewish anti-fascists in the United States are to awaken and mobilize Jewish labor for active participation in the struggle for all-inclusive Jewish unity for victory."

New Century, 1947. Stiff Wrapper. Very Good-. 63 pp."Report to a special Party conference in 1946 on the Jewish question. The author denounces the main obstacles to antifascist unity of the Jewish democratic forces: the reactionary Jewish nationalists, assimilationists, and Social Democrats. Resolutions call for efforts to achieve united action and labor unity, present the position of the Party on Palestine and on Jewish immigration, and urge a progressive Jewish culture in America OCLC Number: 24862482has

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New York: New Century, 1947. Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 63 pages. "Report to a special Party conference in 1946 on the Jewish question. Bittelman was an American Communist leader and journalist who grew up in Odessa, Russia. He joined the Bund at an early age and emigrated to the United States in 1912, where he settled in New York City. In 1919 he became editor of Der Kampf, the organ of the Jewish Communist Federation. He also joined the American Communist Party that year and became its so-called "Jewish specialist. " In 1922 he was sent to Moscow to obtain funds to establish Morning Freiheit, the party's Yiddish paper. In 1951 he was indicted under the Smith Act for conspiring to overthrow the government and was jailed from 1955 until 1957. Until his expulsion from the Party in 1958 because of revisionism he wrote for the Daily Worker (Greenstein, EJ) . Bittelman denounces the main obstacles to antifascist unity of the Jewish democratic forces: the reactionary Jewish nationalists, assimilationists, and… Read More

New York, New York: New Century Publishers, 1948. Good to very good. Water staining, on eor two short tears, minor rust staining from staples.. A passionate polemic elucidating the Communist position on Jewish rights, Palestine, Birobidjan, and Zionism. Includes a chapter titled "Some Current Cultural Problems" which addresses issues such as "the cultural problems springing from the bilingual character of the American Jewish national group", and the need for a cohesive "progressive Jewish life". Ends with a call to action for "Jews together with non-Jews" to "defeat once and for all the drive of Wall Street" by voting accordingly in the 1948 elections. Single vol. (7.25" by 5"), pp. 39, [1], stapled in original printed self wrps. Alexander Bittelman (1890-1982) was a Jewish-American writer and founding member of the Communist Party USA. He was born in present-day Ukraine, and emigrated in 1912. He was convicted for violation of the Smith Act in 1953 and jailed for three years; in 1961, he was… Read More