Arbeter Froyen

Arbeter Froyen (Yiddish: אַרבעטער פֿרױען, lit. 'Working Women') is a Yiddish song by Jacob Glatstein, based on a 1891 poem by David Edelstadt, entitled Tsu Di Arbeter Froyen (Yiddish: צו די אַרבעטער פֿרױען, lit. 'To the Working Women'). The song combines themes of socialist feminism with the ideals of the International Jewish Labor Bund.

The poem was published on May 8, 1891, in American Yiddish-language newspaper Fraye Arbeter Shtime. The song was published in Warsaw in 1918. However, the song had been sung before its first written attribution, as shown by contemporaries to events in the late Russian Empire, such as Anatole Litvak, Shalom Levin, and Abba Levin; who noted that the song was popular in the 1890s amongst strikers.

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