The International Jewish Labor Bund after 1945

Toward a Global History

Bibliographic Data

ID19928641
AuthorsDavid Slucki (0000-0002-2899-0953, corresponding author)
Year2019
Publication date2019-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueInternational Jewish Labor Bund After 1945 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRutgers University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.36019/9780813552255
OpenAlexW3204706426
Open LibraryOL37392407M
ISBN9780813552255
LanguageEN
Citations received13

The Jewish Labor Bund was one of the major political forces in early twentieth-century Eastern Europe. But the decades after the Second World War were years of enormous difficulty for Bundists. Like millions of other European Jews, they faced the challenge of resurrecting their lives, so gravely disrupted by the Holocaust. Not only had the organization lost many members, but its adherents were also scattered across many continents. In this book, David Slucki charts the efforts of the surviving remnants of the movement to salvage something from the wreckage. Covering both the Bundists who remained in communist Eastern Europe and those who emigrated to the United States, France, Australia, and Israel, the book explores the common challenges they faced—building transnational networks of friends, family, and fellow Holocaust survivors, while rebuilding a once-local movement under a global umbrella. This is a story of resilience and passion—passion for an idea that only barely survived Auschwitz

Archaeology · Judaism · Political science · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jews · Labor movement · politics and government · Russia

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