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The Jewish Communist Party in the Czechoslovak Republic was a short-lived political party in Czechoslovakia.

Following the July 1920 World Congress of the Poale Zion movement, the Poale Zion party in Czechoslovakia was split in 1920 with the left faction being led by Rudolf Kohn (Prague), Dr. Arthur Polak (Prague) and Felix Loria (Brno).[1][2] In February 1921 the (Left) Poale Zion had accepted the 21 conditions of the Communist International.[3]

The Left Poale Zion re-constituted itself as the 'Jewish Communist Party in the Czechoslovak Republic', at a congress held May 14–15, 1921.[1][4][5][6][7] Kohn announced the formation of the Jewish Communist Party at the founding congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.[8] The formation of the Jewish Communist Party marked a definitive break with Zionism for Kohn and his followers.[2]

The Jewish Communist Party drew support from Jewish intellectuals and from the rural Jewish proletariat in eastern Slovakia and Subcarpathian Rus'.[5] Most of the erstwhile Poale Zion members in Bratislava and Ružomberok had joined the party.[9] In July 1921, a meeting organized by the party in Žofín [cs], Prague was attended by some 120 persons.[9]

The party published the monthly Der Funke ('The Spark') from Brno as its organ.[9][10] The party merged into the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia at the October 30-November 3, 1921 unity congress.[6][11] Der Funke continued to be published as the organ of the Jewish Section of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.[10]

References

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  1. ^ a b The Jews of Czechoslovakia: Historical Studies and Surveys. Jewish Publication Society of America. 1971. p. 81. ISBN 9780827602304.
  2. ^ a b Kateřina Čapková (2012). Czechs, Germans, Jews?: National Identity and the Jews of Bohemia. Berghahn Books. p. 206. ISBN 978-0-85745-474-4.
  3. ^ Gerhard Wettig (1978). Die Berliner Zugangsproblematik vor dem Vier-Mächte-Abkommen von 1971. Bundesinstitut für Ostwissenschaftliche und Internationale Studien. p. 49.
  4. ^ Miroslav Buchvaldek (1986). Československé dějiny v datech. Nakl. Svoboda. p. 394.
  5. ^ a b Zdeněk Suda (1980). Zealots and rebels: a history of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Hoover Institution Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-8179-7342-1.
  6. ^ a b Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss; Dieter Marc Schneider; Louise Forsyth (10 November 2011). Politik, Wirtschaft, Öffentliches Leben. Walter de Gruyter. p. 382. ISBN 978-3-11-097028-9.
  7. ^ Martin Nechvátal (2002). 15.5.1921 - založení KSČ: ve službách Kominterny. Havran. p. 25. ISBN 978-80-86515-13-7.
  8. ^ Jacques Rupnik (1981). Histoire du Parti communiste tchécoslovaque: des origines à la prise du pouvoir. Fondation nationale des sciences politiques. p. 235. ISBN 978-2-7246-0444-3.
  9. ^ a b c Strobach, Vit. Zamyšlení nad "rudou asimilací" českých Zidů
  10. ^ a b Jaromír Kubíček (1974). Padesát let komunistického tisku na Moravě. Blok. p. 87.
  11. ^ Zdenek Trason (1955). The Origins of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. University of California, Berkeley. pp. 95–96.
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