Abstract EN:

The zionist socialist circles that appeared in the jewish pale of settlement of the russian empire at the end of the 1890's and known under the general name of poalei zion (workers of zion), gave birth, during the russian revolution of 1905, to three different parties: the zionist socialist workers party ("s. S. "; odessa, january 1905), territorialist; the jewish social democratic workers party-poalei zion ("borokhovists";poltava, february 1906), palestinist; the jewish socialist workers party ("sejmists", "s. E. R. P. "; kiev, april 1906), extra-territorialist. Though less influent than the bund, these parties nevertheless plaid an important role within the jewish population, untill they disappeared, in 1918-1922. Their militants distinguished themselves in the jewish tradeunion movement, on one hand, and founded, on the other hand, in russia, in poland and in the countries of jewish immigration (usa, france), numerous institutions that modernized the yiddish language and culture. Advocating jewish national autonomy (cultural, territorial and extra-territorial), they also contributed to the progress of the theoretical thought of the russian revolutionnary movement on the national question.