1918 Picnic Ticket Jewish National Workers Alliance Labor Brooklyn New York

Description

4.35 inches wide, 2.75 inches high. This cardboard ticket is for the 83rd chapter/branch of the I.L. Peretz division of the Jewish National Worker's Alliance, where it states it's name in Hebrew characters "Yiddish Natsionaler Arbeter Farband". You can see the symbol of the JNWA as two arms crossed, one carrying a torch, the other a Zionist flag, with four Hebrew letters floating in the air which is the acronym of the JNWA in Yiddish. On the reverse above the number 83 it says in Yiddish "Branch", and at the bottom of the 83 it says in Yiddish "New York". I would not be surprised if this is the sole surviving example of this piece of ephemera. From Wikipedia:
The Yidish Natsionaler Arbeter Farband or Jewish National Workers Alliance (NJWA) was an early Yiddish-speaking Labor Zionist landsmanshaft in North America, founded in 1912.[1] Its official organ was the Yidishe Kempfer or Jewish Fighter, edited by Baruch Zuckerman. The Farband operated as a mutual aid society parallel to the political party Poale Zion, organizing cooperative insurance and medical plans and an extensive Yiddish and Hebrew educational system, as well as having developed in the 1920s a cooperative housing building in the Bronx, New York. The Farband even developed and maintained cemeteries for movement members. While mainly based in New York, the Farband was active throughout the United States and Canada, forming local chapters and summer camps in many cities with significant Jewish communities. The summer camp for the New York chapter was called Camp Kinderwelt, located in Upstate New York, and had an adjoining adults camp called Unser Camp. The Farband ran a network of secular schools in the US and Canada, called Folkshulen.[1] In 1931 the Farband Yugnt Clubs, their youth wing, joined with Young Poale Zion to form the Young Poale Zion Alliance as the official youth wing of the entire Labor Zionist movement in America.