Against Fascism | Outbreak of War

On September 26, 1939, Daladier dissolved the Communist Party, accusing it of colluding with the enemy. All labor, cultural, and sports organizations affiliated with the Party were also banned.   Contacts between the leadership of the PCF—which has gone underground—and M.O.I. officials have been temporarily suspended. The Yiddish-language newspaper, the Naïe Presse , was published […]

Amid economic hardship and violent attacks by the far right, the French Popular Front collapsed in 1938, and the Spanish Republic was defeated in 1939. Nazi anti-Jewish policies were rampant in the Third Reich. The military might of Hitler’s Germany and its thirst for territorial conquest were a cause for concern. The Munich Agreement, intended […]

For Democrats in general, and for progressive Jews in particular, the fight against fascism was a top priority. It intensified in France beginning in 1934. In late 1935, a broad Jewish democratic popular movement was launched at the initiative of Jewish communist immigrants. Their  These organizations, which are already very active, are becoming increasingly dynamic: […]