Bundist

Socialist, Bundist and Zionist schools of thought were united in their raison d'etre: to find a path to easing Jewish suffering and preserving life and dignity.

Dovid Efune: What Are Jews Fighting For? Dovid Efune 2011

The IJLB is composed by local Bundist groups around the world.

Does the world—and the US—want Israel to survive? 2010

Today the Bundist legacy is represented through the International Jewish Labor Bund, a federation of local Bundist groups around the world.

Does the world—and the US—want Israel to survive? 2010

The strikes resulted in a deepened backlash for the party, and as of 1910 there were legal Bundist trade unions in only four cities, Bialystok, Vilno, Riga and Lodz.

Does the world—and the US—want Israel to survive? 2010

During World War I Dina Blond lived in Vilna, where she met her future husband Beinish Michalewicz (1876 – 1928), also a leading Bundist.

Dina Blond. 2009

As an active Bundist, Khatskels, under the code name “Rachel,” was involved in book smuggling and other clandestine activities, which took her to various cities in the Pale of Settlement and led to her arrest by the Tsarist authorities.

Helene Khatskels. 2009

The years that followed witnessed her first publications in the Bundist journals Di tsayt and Lebnsfragn.

Dina Blond. 2009

Esther (Hinda, a.k.a. Tamara) Riskind (c. 1877/1880 – 1905), a leader of the Bund in Bialystok at the end of the nineteenth century, Gitl Zakhaym, a twenty-one-year-old Bundist, and Ester Vaysvol were also killed in the course of 1905.

Bund. 2009

Dina Blond translated over thirty works of world literature in the period before 1939, some of which were serialized in the Bundist party newspaper Naye Folkstsaytung before being published as books.

Dina Blond. 2009

In the first half of the 1920s Pati Kremer devoted herself mainly to her work as an editor in the publishing company owned by the Bundist Boris Kletskin (1875 – 1937).

Pati Kremer. 2009