Tsenter Avangard

Tsenter Avangard (Yiddish: צענטער אַוואַנגאַרד‎, 'Vanguard Centre') or, in Spanish language, Centro Avangard, was a Jewish socialist organization in Argentina (1908–1914).

History

The Tsenter Avangard emerged from a split in the Jewish Social Democratic Labour Organization in Argentina (Avangard), a Bundist group.[1][2] The founders of Tsenter Avangard were known as the iskrovzes faction, a name inspired by the Russian publication Iskra.[1][2] They were Russian speakers and had an assimilationist approach in contrast to the Yiddishkayt line of the Bundists.[1][2][3] In March 1908, the iskrovzes founded the 'Russian Circle'.[4] The Russian Circle was admitted as a language propaganda unit in the Socialist Party under the name Centro Avangard.[4][5] During the split in Avangard, the two factions fought over control of the library of the organization.[1]

Key figures of Tsenter Avangard were A. Bondarev and Y. Sheyner.[1] Tsenter Avangard published Di shtime fun Avangard (Yiddish: די שטימע פון אַוואַנגאַרד‎, 'Voice of the Vanguard') as its organ 1908–1910.[1][3][5]

Tsenter Avangard was rendered largely defunct under the state of siege of the 1910 Argentina Centennial.[2]

In 1914 the Socialist Party closed down the Tsenter Avangard and its other language centres.[4][6] The iskrovzes tendency continued to operate however, publishing the periodical Golos Avangard.[4]

References
  1. Frank Wolff (2014). Neue Welten in der Neuen Welt: die transnationale Geschichte des Allgemeinen Jüdischen Arbeiterbundes, 1897-1947. Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar. pp. 305–306. ISBN 978-3-412-22211-6.
  2. Victor A Mirelman (5 February 2018). Jewish Buenos Aires, 1890-1939: In Search of an Identity. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-4456-9.
  3. ארגענטינער ייווא־שריפטן. Yiṿo. 1942. p. 105.
  4. Hernán Camarero (1 October 2017). Tiempos rojos: El impacto de la Revolución rusa en la argentina. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Argentina. pp. 92–93. ISBN 978-950-07-6003-4.
  5. Bibliografía sobre Judaísmo argentino. AMIA / Editorial Milá. 1984. pp. 37–38. ISBN 978-950-99149-0-2.
  6. פ וואלד (1955). אין גאנג פון צייטן: געשיכטע פון סאציאליזם אין ארגענטינע. Julio Kaufman S.R.L. p. 411.
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