Arbeterheim

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Arbeterheim (

Yiddish: ארבעטערהיים, 'Workers Home') was a Jewish cultural association in Riga, Latvia 1920-1923.[1][2] The association was set by communists in 1920.[3][4] The association was registered on June 20, 1920.[5] It functioned as a front organization of the Communist Party of Latvia.[6] Arbeterheim was led by Ābrams Ravdins.[7] At its locale on 15 Tērbatas street [lv], Arbeterheim ran a "library, a reading room, language classes, a drama circle, and a music studio".[4] In Riga the organization had some 3,000 members.[6] Local groups were also formed in Daugavpils, Liepāja and Rēzekne.[6]

In March 1922 the joint list of the leftist trade unions, the workers consumer cooperative "Produkts" and Arbeterheim gathered 16,672 votes (14%) in the election to the Riga city council.[8]

In April 1922 Vladimir Mayakovsky performed at Arbeterheim in Riga.[6] Subsequently Arbeterheim printed 10,000 copies of Mayakovsky's poem I Love, but the copies were seized by police.[9][10]

The association was banned in 1922, deemed to be a communist front organization.[4] Arbeterheim continued to function clandestinely.[11][12] Kultur-Lige ('Culture League') was set up as a successor organization of Arbeterheim.[1][13]

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  5. ^ JewishGen. The guide to Jewish materials stored in Latvian state historical archives (XVI c. – 1941)
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  8. ^ A. Drīzulis (1980). Rīga sociālisma laikmetā: 1917-1975. Zinātne. p. 97.
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  12. ^ Feminist Africa. African Gender Institute. 2005. p. 78.
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