Baruch Charney Vladeck was a Belarusian-born Jewish American labor leader, journalist and politician who was general manager of The Jewish Daily Forward from 1918 until his death in 1938. He was a mem
Portrait by Bachrach Studios c. 1937
The Charney brothers in Minsk c. 1900. (L-R): Mendel, Daniel, Shmuel, Zolke and Baruch.
Leadership of the Jewish Socialist Federation in 1917. Seated (L-R): Ben-Tsien Hofman, Max Goldfarb, Morris Winchevsky, A. Litvak, Hannah Salutsky, and Moishe Terman. Standing: Shauchno Epstein, Frank Rozenblat, Baruch Charney Vladeck, Moissaye Olgin, and Jacob Salutsky.
Socialists elected in New York City, 1917. Standing (L-R): Abraham Beckerman, Barnet Wolff, Alexander Braunstein, Algernon Lee, Baruch Charney Vladeck, Adolph Held, and Maurice Calman. Seated: August Claessens, William Feigenbaum, Elmer Rosenberg, Louis Waldman, Joseph Whitehorn, Jacob Panken, Abraham Shiplacoff, William Karlin, Samuel Orr, Charles B. Garfinkel, Benjamin Gitlow, and Joseph A. Weil.
Jacob Panken was a Ukrainian-born Jewish American socialist politician, best remembered for his tenure as a New York City municipal court judge and frequent candidacies for high elected office on the
Panken in 1920
Panken speaks at an anti-war rally at Union Square in Manhattan c. 1918
"Comrade Chairman!" Cartoon by Art Young depicting the New York Old Guard at the 1919 Emergency National Convention of the SPA. Left to right: Louis Waldman, Algernon Lee, Abraham Shiplacoff, Jacob Panken, August Claessens, Abraham Beckerman, Charles Solomon, and Alexander Braunstein.
Panken on the bench c. 1918