ABSTRACT
During the second half of the 1880s, a Jewish socialist movement gradually emerged and produced several papers and a club. The Jewish trade union movement arose as well. Joint organization with the English workers was a recurring theme in the Jewish labour movement. The crisis of 1881–1882 gave rise to two distinctive Jewish political movements: Jewish socialism and Jewish nationalism. Those involved in the English socialist movement took note of the first Jewish socialist paper. The International Workingmen's Educational Club, which was established by a group of young socialists in 1884, had a clubhouse on Berner Street in the East End. One of the first editorials disclosed that the reason for publishing the newspaper in Yiddish was that most Jewish workers knew no other language. The clothing manufactured in the East End garment industry ranged from inexpensive custom items to very low-priced ready-to-wear garments. Jewish cabinetmakers initially produced a few specific pieces of furniture.
