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592:, as after-school and Sunday school programs for elementary through middle schoolers. These are located in the Northeastern US and Chicago. Kindershuls emphasize the teaching of Jewish history, from Abraham onward. Jewish culture, including klezmer music and traditional Jewish cooking, is also emphasized, along with the Yiddish language and surrounding culture. Students learn to sing traditional songs in Yiddish, as well as in English and Hebrew. At the end of a student's time at kindershul, when he or she reaches age 12, a secular Bar/Bas Mitzvah ceremony, called a commencement, is held. Commencement students prepare a research paper, a family history paper, and a writeup on 499:, hired a new executive director, Ann Toback, in 2008, reorganized its board and appointed a new president, Madelon "Maddy" Braun, in 2010. It rededicated its mission to education and promoting Jewish community, Yiddish culture and social justice activism. "The plan is to reboot by offering something feels religious Judaism has failed to provide: an education toward a cultural Jewish identity that uses religion as a trigger for activism and connects with a legacy of progressivism and commitment to universal values." The organization sold its former East side building and moved to new offices in the 339:. Many of the Bundists joined The Workmen's Circle and pushed it both to fight exploitative labor practices and to expand its national activities toward Yiddish education and to focus on Yiddish culture, rather than simply providing financial aid. Many of the older members argued that the organization could barely afford to provide its traditional aid to members; this discussion continued for two decades. Zhitlowsky and the Bundists succeeded in persuading the organization to establish a range of cultural activities meant to inform and express the secular Jewish spirit, such as the 475:
and insurance programs, to operate its old age homes, schools, camps and to host "holiday observances interpreting Jewish history in the traditionally secular Workmen's Circle spirit." It also continued its liberal agenda, supporting universal health care, for example. Its then-president, Mark Mlotek, noted: "this is an organization that says that the language of the murdered people in Eastern Europe was Yiddish ... there is a vibrant Yiddish culture has to be maintained. Without it, a heart and soul will really go away."
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come to activism through being literate Jews. The two things go together." Continuing to teach children Yiddish is "a way of opening their minds and souls to something in our collective past that it is extremely important to connect to." In 2012, the Circle commissioned a study that showed that one in six American Jews "are actively seeking Jewish expression and engagement outside of synagogue life."
279: 229:, helping its members to adapt to their new life in America. It provided life insurance, unemployment relief, healthcare, social interaction, burial assistance and general education through its branches throughout the US as well as through its national office. Soon, the organization was joined by more politically focused socialist 258:. By the 1960s, the Circle's membership began to decline, as Jews joined the middle class and moved from cities to suburbs; the Circle no longer seemed as essential to many as it had been. In the new century, the organization ended its direct health insurance program, streamlined its operations, separated from 459:
Beginning by the 1960s, the Circle's membership slowly declined, reaching a level of about 50,000 members by the 1980s. When the federal Medicare program began in 1966, the Circle's healthcare programs became less urgently needed. More generally, as its then-president Dr. Barnett Zumhoff explained to
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in 1985, with the opening up opportunities for Jews in American society, and their move into the middle class and dispersion geographically from cities to suburbs and small towns, the Circle was no longer as essential to the Jewish community as it had been. Its membership was no longer predominantly
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The organization began to form a national network of autonomous branches soon after its founding, chartered through the national organization, that provided services to their local members. From 1905, greatly increased Jewish immigration to the US, following new pogroms in Russia, brought to America
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goal "of helping to develop in working people a sense of solidarity, a clear, enlightened outlook, the striving, by means of their unity, to acquire that influence in ultimately, bringing on the day of their complete emancipation from exploitation and oppression." Unlike other mutual aid groups, the
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The Circle continues to sponsor holiday and community events, coordinate its branches around the country and partner with Jewish school programs. No longer a mutual aid society, it operates seven schools for children (kindershuls) and offers the largest adult Yiddish language instruction program in
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The Workingmen's Circle Society of New York formed in 1892 thanks to the efforts of two Jewish cloak makers. The Workmen's Circle was established in New York City on September 4, 1900, as a national organization. The group held its first convention in 1901. It immediately provided to its members
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By 1996, the Circle's membership had declined to 28,000. By then, it considered itself the only organization promoting Eastern European Yiddish culture. It continued to teach Yiddish language and literature, to promote secular Jewish community and Jewish arts, music and culture, to provide its aid
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By 2010, the Circle had 10,000 members and 20 branches. It used proceeds from the sale of its building to begin to regrow its membership and community and school network, and to hire more educators. Toback said, "Our expression of Judaism is through activism, and we also believe that young people
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On December 2, 2019, the organization unveiled its new name: the Workers Circle. This name embraces the tenor of the times in gender-neutral fashion and with a nod to the organization's century of activism at the fore of the labor movement, supporting worker rights to this day.
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initiated a power-struggle in the Circle's national organization and many of its branches around the country, but they were rejected in 1929 and formed a separate organization, taking with them about 5,000 members and some of the Circle's establishments, like Camp Kinderland.
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culture. It operates schools and Yiddish education programs, and year-round programs of concerts, lectures and secular holiday celebrations. The organization has community branch offices throughout North America, a national headquarters in New York City.
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the world, which also collaborates with New Yiddish Rep. to teach a Yiddish language through theatre class. Its social justice activism includes opposing unfair labor practices, genocide and racism and supporting comprehensive immigration reform,
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life insurance, some unemployment relief, healthcare, social interaction such as dances, and financial assistance in obtaining a graveyard plot. It also held general education sessions on the natural sciences and had the generally pro-labor and
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Yiddish theatre troupe (1915), Yiddish book publishing, orchestras, and art expositions sponsored by the branches around the country, Yiddish after school programs for children and teens (beginning in 1918), adult lecture circuits,
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workers, but had become small-business owners, professionals and schoolteachers. Still, the Circle believed that it offered a secular alternative to synagogue attendance and Zionist groups in its preservation of
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Ann Toback, CEO; Melissa Karachalios, Director of Development and External Affairs; Jonathan Gold, Director of Finance; Kolya Borodulin, Director of Yiddish Programming; Noelle Damico, Director of Social
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In the middle of the 20th century, The Workmen's Circle continued to operate old age homes and medical clinics and offer burial assistance, affordable health and life insurance; it established
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As an organization organically linked to the historic Jewish labor movement, many of the Workmen's Circle's leaders were involved from its inception until the start of the 21st century with
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The youth section of the Workmen's Circle in its early years was the Young Circle League of America (YCLA), established in 1930. The group self-identified as "first and foremost a
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In the first decade of the 21st century, the organization ended its direct health insurance program and closed its old age homes, streamlined its operations, separated itself from
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they have performed through the year. At the group commencement itself, students give a talk on their research topic of choice, often also telling their family history.
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Peter Pepper (past president), Richard Brook, Zeev Dagan, Michelle Green, Michael Kaminer, Irena Klepfisz, Eric Marshall, Dan Opatoshu, Edgar Romney, Eva Zasloff
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Yiddish theatre troupe and promoted Jewish arts and music, Yiddish school programs for children and Yiddish summer camps. It became influential in the American
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On September 28, 2023, the organization announced it was separating from Camp Kinder Ring and that both organizations will continue to operate independently.
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organization had a workers' social agenda that it took seriously. It "agitated to abolish child labor, establish social security and shorten the work day."
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In the meantime, especially after a series of garment workers' strikes in New York beginning in 1910, the Circle became influential in the American
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organization," sponsoring lectures, debates, and educational and recreational programs for its members. The YCLA also published its own magazine,
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who advocated the anti-assimilationist idea of Yiddish cultural autonomy, led by education in Yiddish and socialist ideals. The Circle formed the
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and grew to serve more than 84,000 members through hundreds of branches around North America. It also became involved with the Yiddish newspaper
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to replace Camp Kinderland (and some branches also operated camps); and it continued to have a hand in operating the Yiddish-language newspaper
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district had 17 branches in 1924. But during that decade, members of The Workmen's Circle sympathetic to the
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At the same time, the Workmen's Circle continued its role as a mutual aid society. In 1917 it adopted the
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Baskin, Joseph (1949). Joseph Duntov (ed.). "The Workmen's Circle in Southern States".
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split off form The Workmen's Circle as a parallel Communist fraternal benefit society.
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that promotes social and economic justice, Jewish community and education, including
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The Fertile Soil of Growth, Life and Ideas: Jewish Anarchist Solidarity in Winnipeg
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Journal for the 1949 Convention of the Southern Region of the Workmen's Circle
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near the Millinery District Synagogue on Sixth Avenue (here, circa 2008).
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language – here, its dialects in Eastern Europe (15th–19th centuries).
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The Workers Circle and Camp Kinder Ring Announce Exciting New Chapter
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Y. Murray Goldman, "YCLA – Fraternal Order for Progressive Youth,"
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The Arbeter Ring runs seven kindershuls, or children's schools of
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and operated old-age homes, medical clinics and other services.
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of New York City in 2011. The Workmen's Circle is a nonprofit
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List of North American ethnic and religious fraternal orders
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mortuary table, and by 1920 it established a sanatorium for
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Politically, the Circle moved away from socialism towards
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Formed in 1900 by Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants from
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Coming Full Circle: 2014 Workmen's Circle Annual Report
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magazine and supplied it to the members of the Circle.
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large numbers of politically sophisticated socialist
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Index


New York City
NGO
501c3
New York City
Yiddish
Board of directors
Yiddish
Jewish
nonprofit organization
Yiddish
Ashkenazic
Eastern Europe
mutual aid society
Bundists
Folksbiene
labor movement
The Forward
liberalism
New Deal
Garment District
501(c)(3) organization

Yiddish
pogroms in the 1880s and succeeding decades
Yiddish
mutual aid societies
socialist

Chaim Zhitlowsky

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