THE JEWISH UNIONS IN AMERICA

Eventually, bitter dissension within the Socialist Labor Party led
Weinstein and others to switch to the Social Democracy of America,
which had been started by Eugene V. Debs in 1897. Those dissidents
founded the Yiddish-language Forverts.
12 The masthead proclaimed
its name in Yiddish and English, as well as that of its namesake in
German — Forwärts, the newspaper of Germany's Social-Democrats.
Weinstein was a member of its first executive board, and a contributor
from its earliest years. In addition to pieces on labor issues, he wrote
about Jewish folksingers in Odessa; Yiddish plays produced in Odessa
and New York; and the Yiddish actors, choristers, and variety theaters
in New York.13
[Cambridge: 2018]

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