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Political Parties
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Zionist
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General Zionists: Al Hamishmar and Et Livnot factions |
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Socialist Zionists: Poale Zion Right and Poale Zion Left |
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Religious Zionists of Mizrahi |
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Revisionists of Jabotinsky and Revisionists of Grossman |
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several Zionist youth movements |
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Bund |
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Agudah |
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Communists |
Charitable
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Linat Tzedek (shelter) |
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Bikur Holim (visiting the sick) |
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Hachnasat Kalah (marrying the poor bride) |
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Chevrah Kadisha (burial society) |
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Hevrat Eruvim (ritual group) |
Educational
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ORT school (vocational training) |
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Yesod Torah (for Orthodox boys) |
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Bet Yaakov (for Orthodox girls) |
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Mizrahi school (Zionist orientation) |
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dozens of yeshivot, academies and shtiblech |
Cultural
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Macabi sports club (formed by the Zionists after World War
I); organized sports and a brass band |
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book clubs |
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choirs, bands (especially mandolins), in the tradition of
the Zamir band, founded in Piotrkow in 1908 |
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drama clubs and review (especially those by Hashomer
Hatzair) |
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chess tournaments and live chess games in Dobroczynnosc
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Source
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Giladi, Ben, ed. A Tale of One City: Piotrkow Tybunalski.
New York, NY : Shengold Publishers in cooperation with the Piotrkow
Trybunalski Relief Association in New York, 1991. |
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