The rise and fall of the Jewish Labour Bund

http://www.isj.org.uk/index.php4?id=825&issue=135
Date Written:  2012-06-28
Publisher:  International Socialism
Year Published:  2012
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX14656

The history of the Bund, or Algemeyner Yiddisher Arbeter Bund in Rusland un Poyln (General Jewish Labour Union in Russia and Poland), is one riven with contradictions. It brought together tens of thousands of Jewish workers during its 52 years of existence in struggle against oppression and exploitation.