Simha Tzabari
Simha Tzabari | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 1913 Tel Aviv, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 2004 (aged 90–91) |
| Political party | |
| Occupation | Teacher |
Simha Tzabari (1913–2004) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the central committee of the illegal Palestine Communist Party.
Early life and education[edit]
Tzabari was born in Tel Aviv in 1913, and her parents were Yemenite Jewish workers.[1] She had five siblings, including Rahel.[1] She attended Yehieli Girls School in the Neve Tzedek neighborhood of Tel Aviv.[1] During her studies she became a revolutionary and was trained at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East in Moscow in the early 1930s.[1][2] At age 21 she became a member of the central committee of the Palestinian Communist Party which had been illegally operating.[1]
Career and activities[edit]
Tzabari worked at a factory and was a member of the Communist Youth League.[1] She launched the Jewish branch of the Palestine Communist Party to organize activities in the cities of Jerusalem, Haifa, and Tel Aviv.[3] However, it was closed in 1939 due to the conflicts between the group and the leadership of the party.[3] In the 1940s she continued to be one of the leading members of the party.[4] Following the establishment of Israel in 1948 she joined the leftist political party Mapam.[1] She retired from politics in 1954 and attended a high school obtaining a diploma.[1] She worked as a teacher of Arabic at a school in Ramla.[1]
Personal life and death[edit]
Tzabari did not get married and had no children.[1] She had an affair with Radwan Al Hilu, general secretary of the Palestine Communist Party.[5][6]
She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2002 and died in October 2004.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Dalia Karpel (9 December 2004). "A Revolutionary Life". Haaretz. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
- ^ Nir Arielli (October 2011). "Induced to Volunteer? The Predicament of Jewish Communists in Palestine and the Spanish Civil War". Journal of Contemporary History. 46 (4): 863. doi:10.1177/0022009411413406. JSTOR 41305362. S2CID 153545063.
- ^ a b Fadi H. Kafeety (May 2019). The Forgotten Comrades: Leftist Women, Palestinians, and the Jordanian Communist Party, 1936–1957 (MA thesis). City University of New York. p. 16.
- ^ Musa Budeiri (14 August 2020). "Essential Readings on the Left in Mandate Palestine". Jadaliyya. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
- ^ Tamir Sorek (2020). The Optimist. A Social Biography of Tawfiq Zayyad. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. p. 23. doi:10.1515/9781503612747. ISBN 9781503612747. S2CID 228970986.
- ^ Marev Mack (2015). "Orthodox and Communist: A History of a Christian Community in Mandate Palestine and Israel". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 42 (4): 394. doi:10.1080/13530194.2014.1002386. S2CID 153785634.
- 20th-century Israeli women politicians
- 1913 births
- 2004 deaths
- Politicians from Tel Aviv
- Israeli Jews
- Jews from Mandatory Palestine
- Israeli people of Yemeni-Jewish descent
- 20th-century Israeli educators
- Mapai politicians
- Palestine Communist Party politicians
- Communist University of the Toilers of the East alumni