Yidish Natsionaler Arbeter Farband

The Yidish Natsionaler Arbeter Farband (יידיש־נאַציאָנאַלער אַרבעטער־פאַרבאַנד}, also known as Jewish National Workers Alliance (NJWA)) was an early Yiddish-speaking Labor Zionist landsmanshaft in North America, founded in 1912.

The Farband operated as a mutual aid society parallel to the political party Poale Zion, organizing cooperative insurance and medical plans and an extensive Yiddish and Hebrew educational system, as well as having developed in the 1920s a cooperative housing building in the Bronx, New York.

While mainly based in New York, the Farband was active throughout the United States and Canada, forming local chapters and summer camps in many cities with significant Jewish communities.

[1] In 1931 the Farband Yugnt Clubs, their youth wing, joined with Young Poale Zion to form the Young Poale Zion Alliance as the official youth wing of the entire Labor Zionist movement in America.

The Los Angeles branch published Chaim Grade, including the Yiddish originals of The Agunah and The Yeshiva.