Bulus Farah Explained

Bulus Farah (1910–1991)^[1] was a Palestinian trade unionist who founded the Federation of Arab Trade Unions and Labor Societies in 1942. He began working in the Haifa workshops in 1925 as a fifteen-year-old apprentice. Farah was one of the first Arab leaders of the Palestine Communist Party to go to study in Moscow at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East.^[2] In 1945, he attended the World Trade Union Conference in London.^[3]

He is also known as the author of a book on the railway workers of the post-World War I period, entitled Min al-'uthmaniyya ila al-dawla al-'ibriyya.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: בולוס פרח (1910-1991) הספרייה הלאומית . 2023-08-15 . www.nli.org.il . he.
2. Merav Mack (2015) Orthodox and Communist: A History of a Christian Community in Mandate Palestine and Israel, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 42:4, p.394
3. Web site: 2007-02-21 . The Voice of Coloured Labour. 2023-06-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070221225051/http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/countries/panafrican/padmore1945.pdf . 2007-02-21 .
4. Book: Endelman, Todd M.. Todd M. Endelman. Comparing Jewish Societies. 1997. University of Michigan Press. 263. 978-0-4720-6592-9.