Freie Arbeiter Stimme

From Infoshop OpenWiki

The Freie Arbeiter Stimme (The Free Voice of Labor) was the longest-running anarchist periodical in the Yiddish language, founded initially as an American counterpart to Rudolf Rocker's London-based Arbeiter Fraynd (Workers' Friend).

Publication began in 1890 and continued under the editorial of Saul Yanovsky until 1923. For a period the paper was under the editorial of Mark Mratchny, an exiled Ukranian anarchist and former editor of Nabat (The Alarm), the organ of the anarchist Nabat Federation during the Makhnovist-Bolshevik peace agreement. The paper ran for 87 years until it finally was forced to stop publication in 1977 under the editorial of Ahrne Thorne due to the declining and aging population of both yiddish speakers and anarchists in the US.

Contributors have included David Edelstadt, Abba Gordin, Rudolf Rocker, Moishe Shtarkman, and Saul Yanovsky. The paper was also known for publishing poetry by di Yunge, Yiddish poets of the 1910s and 1920s.

The newspaper's story has been memorialized in a documentary by Steve Fischler and Joel Sucher of the Pacific Street Film Project: Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists (1980). Paul Avrich was a consultant on the film.

The page was seeded with material from Wikipedia