Motl Zelmanowicz Explained

(Chaim) Motl Zelmanowicz (c. 1914 – 16 October 2010[1]) was a Bundist[2] activist.

Zelmanowicz was born in Łódź, Poland. His father, Ephraim, was an activist in the General Jewish Labour Bund. At a very early age, he became an activist in the Bund in Poland,[3] becoming the local chairman of S.K.I.F. (Sotsyalistishe Kinder Farband). In 1940, he moved to Seattle to escape from the Holocaust. He arrived with his brother, Shloyme, his future wife, Dr. Naomi Pat (known as Emma), and various friends and colleagues from the Bund. After moving to New York, he was instrumental in establishing the World Coordinating Committee of the Bund and was its chairman for many years.[4]

Zelmanowicz was on the Board of Directors and a Trustee for YIVO,[2] [5] [6] a member of the Board of Advisors of the Folksbiene,[7] a Vice-President of the Jewish Daily Forward,[6] [8] one of the Vice-Chairs of the Democratic Socialists of America,[9] [10] member of the Executive Committee of the Jewish Labor Committee,[6] and President of the International Jewish Labor Bund.

He was the author of A Bundist Comments on History As It Was Being Made: The Post–Cold War Era (2009), a collection of articles originally published in the Bundist magazine Undzer Tsayt, for which he was a major contributor;[4] and was responsible for the production of a recording of workers' songs, "In Love and Struggle" (1999), on CD.[11] He also assisted scholar Jack Lester Jacobs, the author of Bundist Counterculture in Interwar Poland, in his research.[12]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Motl Zelmanowicz, 95, Bundist and Yiddishist – . 21 October 2010 . Forward.com . 25 October 2011.
  2. Web site: A Light Shines Brightly From 'Miracle on 16th Street' – . Forward.com . 10 January 2003 . 25 October 2011.
  3. Web site: At YIVO, Honoring Those Who Champion Mameloshn – . 4 June 2004 . Forward.com . 25 October 2011.
  4. Web site: Motl Zelmanowicz: A Bundist Comments on History As It Was Being Made - The Post–Cold War Era. book announcement . Bundism.net . 26 January 2009 . 25 October 2011.
  5. Web site: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research | Board of Directors . Yivoinstitute.org . 25 October 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111101033316/http://www.yivoinstitute.org/about/index.php?tid=90&aid=509 . 1 November 2011.
  6. Web site: Paid Notice: Deaths ZELMANOWICZ, DR. EMMA . The New York Times . 8 December 2000 . 25 October 2011.
  7. Web site: Welcome to The National Yiddish Theatre . Folksbiene.org . 25 October 2011.
  8. http://entreprise.jigsaw.com/scid19947867/motl_zelmanowicz.xhtml{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  9. Web site: Democratic Socialists of America . Dsausa.org . 25 October 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130108173528/http://www.dsausa.org/about/structure.html . 8 January 2013 . dead .
  10. Web site: Progressive Politics for a Fairer World . Socialist International . 30 June 2001 . 25 October 2011.
  11. Web site: Archived copy . 2010-10-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20030924215544/http://www.yivoinstitute.org/pdf/yedies188.pdf . 24 September 2003.
  12. Book: Jack Jacobs. Bundist Counterculture Interwar Poland. 2009. Syracuse University Press. 978-0-8156-3226-9. 11.

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