Can someone suggest a venue for my English translation of Shloyme Bastomski's Yiddish version of this kabbalistic tale? He wrote it and published it himself a hundred years ago as a reader for his students in the pioneering secular Yiddish-language schools of Vilna, Poland, and Russia, as there were very few Yiddish-language education materials.
May 1 has come and gone, but workers continue to need, and deserve, decent working conditions, health care, and pension plans. It behooves us to remember that their struggle is centuries old. When Bernard Weinstein fled the pogroms and landed in New York in 1882, he was housed at Castle Garden with other impoverished immigrants. A well-dressed gentleman showed up and offered jobs to any who would come work for him. Weinstein soon learned that they were being hired to break a strike by the longshoremen He devoted his life to organizing workers on the lower east side, and was a founder of the Fareynikte yidishe geverkshaftn [known in English as the United Hebrew Trades]. This is his memoir: The Jewish Unions in America, pages of history and memories. It is accessible at no cost on the website of the publisher and on Google Books.