Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Jewish Worker's Culture Centre
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Yiddisher Arbeter Kultur Tsenter
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
The Centre's activity catered to the influx of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, and maintained its cultural activities under the name of the Yiddisher Arbeter Kultur Tsenter (Jewish Workers’ Cultural Centre). The vast majority of members were poor and working class people labouring in sweatshops. Many were in the forefront of the movement to create workers’ unions.