[3] In 1927, the Rising Youth Group was founded in New York by Sara and Elizabeth Goodman, two young Jewish anarchists frustrated with the older generation.
[1] An anarcho-communist group, it aimed to construct a nationwide specific anarchist federation that could gain the support of both workers and intellectuals in order to prepare for a social revolution.
A split in the organization was caused by one of its leading figures Mark Schmidt, who advocated for uniting with the Communist Party and even supported the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
[8] The Vanguard Group had dissolved by the time of the United States' entry into World War II.
[4] Jewish anarchists, including Rudolf Rocker who had himself fled Nazi Germany, largely supported the Allied war effort out of an anti-fascist conviction.