Ameinu Detroit.
The Detroit branch of the Labor Zionist Organization of American (Poale Zion) was established in 1906. The underlying purpose of the organization, according to one writer, was "the inner urge for a spiritual reconstruction" that would bring about the transformation of young people "estranged from the soil and manual labor through centuries of Diaspora life, into enthusiastic workers and farmers in the land of Israel."
Prior to World War II, the Labor Zionist Organization (Poale Zion) developed a fraternal order (the Farband), the Pioneer Women's Organization, the League for Labor Palestine and the Histadrut Campaign. And through a network of Jewish Folk Schools, summer camps, and Habonim (now Habonim Dror), a progressive Zionist youth organization (founded in 1935), the children of members and friends became acquainted with the goals and ideals of labor Zionism.
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