The Histadrut held its first annual congress in New York in 1917; Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the father of modern Hebrew, David Ben-Gurion and Itzhak Ben-Zvi attended.
Among the most notable was the Anthology of Hebrew Poetry in America (1938), which included poems from several centuries of American Jewish life.
[1] Michael Weingrad describes the Histradrut Hebraists as linguistically and ideologically "marginal," because the Hebrew revival was centered in Yiddish-speaking Ashkenaz and continued in Israel.
He describes the story of the Histadrut after Israeli independence as "the steady decline in the fortunes of an already small group."
However, Weingrad points out that the movement produced a few notable Hebrew poets, Gabriel Preil, Eisig Silberschlag and Robert Whitehill.