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Agudas Yisrael (Union of Israel) – an anti-Zionist Orthodox movement.
Alliance Israelite Universelle – French Jewish philanthropy.
American Jewish Committee – Right-wing assimilationist grouping.
American Jewish Congress – Zionist-dominated organisation identified with rabbi Stephen Wise.
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee – Major bourgeois overseas charity.
Anglo-Palestine Bank – Zionist bank in Palestine.
Betar – Revisionist youth organisation. See Revisionists.
B’nai B’rith (Sons of the Covenant) – conservative assimilationist fraternal order.
Board of Deputies of British Jews – Major Jewish organisation in Britain.
Brit Habiryonim (Union of Terrorists) – Revisionist Fascist organisation.
Brith Hachayal (Union of Soldiers).
Brith Hashomrim (Union of Watchmen) – Revisionist organisation in Nazi Germany.
Bund (General Jewish Workers League) – Yiddish socialist movement in Russia and Poland; anti-Zionist.
Central Bureau for the Settlement of German Jews – Headed by Chaim Weizmann, it organised German immigration to Palestine.
Centralverein (Central Union of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) – defence organisation of assimilationist bourgeoisie.
Comité des Delegations Juives (Committee of Jewish Delegations) – post-First World War international Jewish defence organisation dominated by Zionists.
Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs – Official voice of World Zionist Organisation in the United States during the Second World War.
Far Eastern Jewish Council – Organisation of Japanese collaborators.
General Zionists – Bourgeois Zionists divided into rival factions.
Gentile Friends of Zionism – Pro-Palestine Committee in Austria.
Ha’avara Ltd. – Trading company set up by World Zionist Organisation to trade with Nazi Gerrnany.
Hadassah – Zionist women's organisation.
Haganah – Underground militia in Palestine, dominated by Labour Zionists.
Ha Note’a Ltd. – Citrus corporation in Palestine which entered into trade agreement with Nazi Germany.
Hapoel (The Worker) – Labour Zionist sports movement.
Hashomer Hatzair (Young Watchmen) – left Zionist youth movement.
Hechalutz (Pioneers) – Labour Zionist youth movement.
Histadrut (General Federation of Jewish Labour in Palestine).
Hitachdut Olei Germania (German Immigrants' Association in Palestine).
International Trade and Investment Agency – British affiliate of Ha’avara Ltd.
Irgun Zvei Leumi (National Military Organisation) – Revisionist underground.
Jabotinsky Institute – Revisionist research centre.
Jewish Agency for Palestine – Central office of World Zionist Organisation in Palestine; originally it nominally included non-Zionist sympathisers.
Jewish Colonial Trust – Zionist bank.
Jewish Fighting Organisation – One of two Jewish underground movements in the Warsaw ghetto, incorporating the left-Zionist youth groups, the Bund and the Communists.
Jewish Labor Committee – American organisation, dominated by Bundist sympathisers, anti-Zionist in 1930s.
Jewish Legion – Zionist military organisation in British Army during conquest of Palestine in the First World War.
Jewish National Fund – Zionist land fund.
Jewish Party (Romania) – Zionist party.
Jewish People’s Committee (USA) – Communist front group.
Jewish People’s Council – Community defence movement against Mosleyites in Britain.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency – Zionist news service.
Jewish War Veterans – Right-wing American ex-servicemen’s organisation.
Joint Boycott Council of the American Jewish Congress and the Jewish Labor Committee – Anti-Nazi boycott organisation.
Judenrat (Jewish Council) – Nazi puppet council in the ghettos.
Judenstaat Partei (Jewish State Party) – Revisionist splinter group, post-1934, loyal to World Zionist Organisation.
Jüdische-nationale Partei (Jewish National Party) – Austrian Zionist party.
Jüdischer Verlag (Jewish Publishers) – German Zionist publishing house.
Jüdische Volkspartei (Jewish People’s Party) – right-wing party in German Jewish communal politics, dominated by Zionists.
Keren Hayesod (Palestine Foundation Fund).
Labour Zionists – See Poale Zion.
Left Poale Zion – Labour Zionist splinter grouping with a strong Yiddishist orientation.
Leo Baeck Institute – German Jewish exile research organisation.
Lohamei Herut Yisrael (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel – Stern Gang) – Revisionist splinter group.
Maccabi – Zionist sports organisation.
Minorities Bloc – Coalition of bourgeois nationalists in Poland set up by Polish Zionists.
Mizrachi – Religious Zionist party.
Mossad – Bureau in charge of illegal immigration for World Zionist Organisation.
Naftali Botwin Company – Yiddish-speaking unit with International Brigades in Spain.
Nationale Jugend Ilerzlia – Revisionist youth movement in Nazi Germany.
Near and Middle East Commercial Corporation (NEMI CO) – Affiliated to Ha’avara Ltd.
New Zionist Organisation – Revisionist international organisation set up in 1935.
Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League – Anti-Nazi boycott organisation of the 1930s.
Ordenergrupe – Defence groups of the Bund in Poland.
Organisation of Jewish Centre Party Voters – Grouping of Jewish capitalists who voted for Catholic Centre Party.
Palestine Labour Party – Labour Zionist party in Palestine; see Poale Zion.
Palestine Offices – Fourteen world-wide offices for immigration to Palestine.
Poale Zion (Workers of Zion) - Labour Zionists.
Polish Zionist Organisation – Mainline Zionist federation.
Radical Zionists – Bourgeois Zionist faction, later merged with a faction of the General Zionists.
Reichstag Elections Committee – Short-lived Jewish bourgeois grouping for 1930 election.
Reichsverband jüdischer Kulturebunde (German Union of Jewish Culture Leagues) – segregationist organisation established by Nazis.
Reichsvertretung der deutschen Juden (Reich Representation of Jews in Germany) – united organisation of Jewish bourgeoisie under the Nazis.
Revisionists – Political party established by Vladimir Jabotinsky in 1925.
Staatszionistische Organisation (State Zionist Organisation) – Revisionist movement in Nazi Germany, technically unaffiliated to world Revisionist movement.
Stern Gang (Lohamei Herut Yisrael – Fighters for the Freedom of Israel).
Swit Dawn – Revisionist underground movement in Poland under the Nazis.
Tnuat Haherut (Freedom Movement) – Revisionist party in Israel, founded by Menachem Begin.
United Jewish Parties – Czechoslovakian Jewish electoral bloc including Zionists.
Vaad Hazalah – Jewish Agency's Rescue Committee during the Holocaust.
Vaad Leumi (National Council) – semi-government of Zionist settlement under the British.
Working Group – Jewish rescue group in Slovakia.
World Jewish Congress – Pro-Zionist Jewish defence organisation established in 1936.
World Zionist Organisation – Central body of Zionist movement.
Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority – Israeli Holocaust Institute.
Zidovska Strana (Jewish Party) – Zionist party in Czechoslovakia.
Zion Mule Corp – Zionist unit with British Army in the First World War.
Zionist Organisation of America – Equivalent of General Zionists.
Zionistische Vereinigung für Deutschland (Zionist Federation of Germany).
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