Jewish Socialists Helped Build Multiracial Democracy in America

If I were to describe an anti-Zionist Jewish socialist organization with tens of thousands of members, Yiddish schools, and arts clubs, which operated under a climate of severe state repression until it was finally disbanded by force and its leaders jailed, you might be forgiven for thinking I had a European organization in mind, the Jewish Labor Bund. But the International Workers Order (IWO) Jewish section, otherwise known as the Jewish Peoples’ Fraternal Order (JPFO), was one of the largest…