Shayah Charnam Explained

Shayah Charnam (died 1929) was a Jewish communist activist in Poland. He was killed by a plainclothes policeman in Łódź in 1929, as Charnam was organizing a workers protest meeting outside the Biderman factory. Charnam was projected as a martyr in the Polish communist movement, and songs were written about him.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Schatz, Jaff. The Generation: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Communists of Poland. Berkeley [u.a.]: Univ. of California Press, 1991. p. 112