The memoirs of Jewish anarchist labor organizer Chaim Weinberg are now available in English. Recorded from oral testimony in 1930 and published in Yiddish in 1952, these are the recollections of an old fighter, spoken from memory. They are folkloric rather than scholarly, humorous, and entirely about common workers' defense of their own humanity. Weinberg was an anarchist-communist who devoted half a century to union movements, the establishment of collective stores and communities, and the fight against organized religion. His main role was as a gifted orator - one who turned union drives back against the boss on many occasions, always to Jewish immigrant workers, in the Yiddish language. Active primarily in Philadelphia, Weinberg also lent his talents to struggles up and down the Eastern seaboard. This edition includes an introduction and notes by Robert Helms, a Philadelphia labor activist and union organizer who maintains the dead anarchists web site: [url]http://www.deadanarchists.org[/url]
Forty Years in the Struggle: The Memoirs of a Jewish Anarchist
- Author: Chaim Leib Weinberg
- Translator: Naomi Cohen
- Editor: Robert Helms
- Price: $28.00
- Published: Litwin Books, May 2009
- ISBN: 978-0-9802004-3-0