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The International Jewish Labor Bund was a New York-based international Jewish socialist organization, based on the legacy of the General Jewish Labour Bund founded in the Russian empire in 1897 and the Polish Bund that was active in the interwar years. The IJLB is composed by local Bundist groups around the world. It was an "associated organisation" of the Socialist International, similar in status to the World Labour Zionist Movement or the International League of Religious Socialists.[1] The World Coordinating Council/Committee of the Jewish Labor Bund was dissolved in New York in the mid-2000s.[citation needed], although local Bundist groups or groups inspired by the Jewish Labor Bund still exist in France, the UK, Australia and the State of Israel[citation needed].
History[]
The Polish Bund had established a representation in New York in 1941, where it began publishing Unser Tsait. In 1947, a conference was held in Brussels at which the World Coordinating Committee of Bundist and Affiliated Socialist Jewish Organizations was founded (i.e. the IJLB). Emmanuel Novogrodski was the secretary of the IJLB until 1961. Novgrodski had been the secretary of the Polish Bund and participated in setting up its New York representation.[2][3] Early 1948, the Polish Bund withdrew from the World Coordinating Committee.[4]
The IJLB was admitted with an observer statute on the June 1947 Zürich Conference of the reconstituted Socialist International and as an "associated organization" at the Frankfurt founding Congress of the new Socialist International in 1951.[5][6]
In 1997 commemorative events were organized to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Bund in New York City, London, Warsaw, Paris[7] and Brussels, where the chairwoman of the Belgian chapter, herself 100 years old, was present.[8]
Summary of ideology[]
In 1958, the Jewish Labor Bund released a pamphlet commemorating the organization's 60th birthday. In it, the Bund summed up its ideology in seven points.[9]
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Leadership[]
Presidents
- Motl Zelmanowicz[10] (died 2010)
General secretaries
- (1947–1961)
- Emanuel Scherer (1961–1977)
- (1992-2004) [11]
Executives of the World Coordinating Committee[]
Executive of the World Coordinating Committee in 1957:[12] David Meier, Abraham Stolar, Emanuel Sherer, Emanuel Novogrodski, Benjamin Tabatchinski, Pinchas Schwartz, Leon Oler, Alexander Erlich, J.S. Hertz, Joseph Gutgold, Hershel Himelfarb, Baruch Shefner
Members of the World Coordinating Committee 1957:
Peretz Guterman, F. Shrager, Leon Stern (all three from France), Meyer Treibeer, Berl Fuchs (both from Brazil), Berl Rosner (England), Tschechanowski (Belgium), Shimon Yezher, Tuvie Meisel (both from Mexico), Kowalsman (Uruguay), Alexander Mints, Dr. M. Peretz (both from Argentina), S. M. Oshry, M. L. Polin, Ch. S. Kasdan (all from USA), Artur Lermer, Manie Reinhartz (both from Canada), Paul Olberg (Sweden), Bunem Wiener, Mendel Kosher, (both from Australia), Bentzl Zalwitz, Pesach Burshin, Israel Artuski (all three from Israel)
Bund Congresses[]
- 1947 Brussels
- 1948 New York[13]
- 1955 (April 8–15) Montreal[14]
- 1965 New York
- 1972 New York
- 1985 New York
Affiliated groups[]
Bund groups continue to meet in the United Kingdom (Jewish Socialists' Group[15]), France (),[16] Denmark, Canada, USA, Australia ( and S.K.I.F.), Argentina, Uruguay and Israel (Arbeter-ring in Yisroel – Brith Haavoda).
From 1959–1978 the Bund operated a summer youth camp called Camp Hemshekh in the Catskills region of New York State. The surviving youth movement of the Bund, S.K.I.F., also ran summer camps in Canada and in Melbourne, Australia. Today, S.K.I.F. operates in Melbourne, Australia, and in France since 1963 as the (French: Club laïque de l'Enfance juive, CLEJ).[17]
Press[]
The IJLB published in New York a monthly journal in Yiddish, Unser Tsait. It also published the Jewish Labor Bund Bulletin and the Bulletin of the Jewish Youth Movement.[18] Its Australian and Israeli chapters have their own magazines, Unser Gedank and Lebns Fragn.[19]
In 1957, for the sixtieth years of existence of the Bund, the IJLB published a commemorative book in Yiddish and English with photographs, Der Bund Un Bilder, 1897-1957.[20]
References[]
- ^ Socialist International, member parties
- ^ Bund
- ^ YIVO Archives, Fruma Mohrer, and Marek Web. Guide to the YIVO Archives. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1998. pp. 43-44
- ^ Meyer, Peter. The Jews in the Soviet Satellites. [Syracuse, N.Y.]: Syracuse University Press, 1953. p. 303
- ^ "Internationale Sozialistentagung in Zuerich vom 6. bis 8. Juni 1947". Sozialistische Mitteilungen (in German). London: London Representative of the German Social Democratic Party (100). June 1947. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Grabsky, August (August 10, 2005). "The Anti-Zionism of the Bund (1947-1972)". Workers' Liberty. Retrieved 2009-11-10.
- ^ see the poster
- ^ French: Union des progressistes juifs de Belgique, 100e anniversaire du Bund. Actes du Colloque, Minorités, Démocratie, Diasporas, Bruxelles, UPJB, 1997, ISSN 0770-5476
- ^ Jewish Labor Bund 1897-1957. New York, N.Y.: International Jewish Labor Bund, 1958. OCLC 948867081.[page needed]
- ^ e.g. author of A Bundist Comments on History as It Was Being Made[permanent dead link], 2008
- ^ "Benjamin I. Nadel". legacy.com. 2014-12-30. Retrieved 2017-12-23.
- ^ Hertz, Jacob Sholem (1958). Unser Tsayṭ (ed.). Der Bund in bilder, 1897-1957 (in Yiddish and English). New York.
- ^ see Yiddish: Tsṿeyṭe Ṿelṭ-ḳonferents fun "Bund" : forgeḳumen in Nyu-Yorḳ fun 1ṭn biz 8ṭn Oḳṭober, 1948 : disḳusye-arṭiḳlen un genoyer barikhṭ fun der ḳonferents. צווייטע וועלט־קאנפערענץ פון ״בונד״ : פארגעקומען אין ניו־יארק פון 1טן ביז 8טן אקטאבער, 1948 : דיסקוסיע־ארטיקלען און גענויער באריכט פון קאנפערענץ
- ^ see Statements and resolutions adopted by the Third World Conference of the Bund : April 8-15, 1955, Montreal, Canada
- ^ Jewish Socialists' Group, Who we are - JSG affiliations Archived 2009-11-01 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Centre Medem – Arbeter-Ring Centre culturel juif laïque". Centre Medem.
- ^ See Club laïque de l'Enfance juive, in the French-language Wikipedia
- ^ "Directory list" (PDF). www.ajcarchives.org. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
- ^ American Jewish Yearbook (PDF). 2003.
- ^ Jacob Sholem Hertz, ed. (1958). Der Bund Un Bilder, 1897-1957 - The Jewish Labor Bund, a pictorial history, 1897-1957 (in Yiddish and English). New York: Unser Tsayṭ.
External links[]
- Jewish Labor Bund Bulletin 1947-1953
Further reading[]
- Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund: A Memoir of Interwar Poland, by Bernard Goldstein, edited and translated from the Yiddish by Marvin Zuckerman, Purdue University Press, 2016.
- The International Jewish Labor Bund after 1945: Toward a Global History by David Slucki, 2012
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