Zionist Socialist Workers Party

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Zionist Socialist Workers Party (Russian: Сионистско-социалистическая рабочая партия), often referred to simply as 'Zionist-Socialists' or 'S.S.' by their Russian initials, was a Jewish socialist territorialist political party in the Russian Empire and Poland, that emerged out of the Vozrozhdenie (Renaissance) group in 1904. The party held its founding conference in Odessa in 1905.[1][2][3] The party favoured the idea of a Jewish territorial autonomy, outside of Palestine.[4] However, whilst territorial autonomy was the goal of the party, it dedicated most of its energy into revolutionary activities in Russia.[5] Like other Russian revolutionary groups such as the Narodniks, the party was positive towards using terrorism as a means of struggle against the establishment.[6]

Nachman Syrkin, Jacob Lestchinsky, Volf Latsky-Bartoldi and Shmuel Niger were amongst the leading figures of the party.[5]

The party played an active role in the 1905 revolution.[5]







  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Alroey, Gur. Demographers in the service of the nation: Liebmann Hersch, Jacob Lestschinsky, and the early study of Jewish migration, Jewish History (2006) 20:265–282
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Frankel, Jonathan (ed.). The Jews and the European crisis, 1914–1921. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. p. 339
  8. Frankel, Jonathan. Prophecy and Politics: Socialism, Nationalism, and the Russian Jews, 1862-1917. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. p. 283
  9. 9.0 9.1 Jacobs, Jack Lester. Jewish Politics in Eastern Europe: The Bund at 100. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. p. 185

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