Joseph Finn

[1] Founded by Morris Winchevsky, it was the first London-based socialist paper in Yiddish, first published in 1884 in Spitalfields, the centre of the tailoring and clothing trades.

[2] Finn joined the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), and tried to promote solidarity between Jewish workers and socialists in the city.

This was successful, but Finn faced victimisation by employers and struggled to find work, instead relocating to Boston, Massachusetts.

He also wrote a pamphlet, Voice of the Alien, arguing that Eastern European workers were not taking the jobs of English people, but were instead contributing to the economy.

[1] During the 1910s, Finn was a frequent contributor to The New Age, writing in opposition to antisemitism, and in support of an economic federation of European nations.