“Bund”

Leivick Hodes writes, in Madeleine Cohen's translation, of the trajectory of the Bund and other political movements in 1947, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Bund and Zionism.

Jun 11, 2026

Organized by Bundists, the Medem Sanatorium specifically addressed the health and material and social problems of poor Jewish children.

Apr 29, 2026

This article serves as a biographical and bibliographical reference text to introduce readers to Yankev (Jacob) Pat’s life and career, with a focus on the early postwar years.

Mar 19, 2024

The Jewish Labor Bund was a major force in Russian Jewish life, expanding the political arena to be more democratic in nature and driving the creation of a new political and economic discourse in Yiddish. So I was shocked to learn that in 1910, the Bund had a mere 609 members—down from approximately 35,000 five years earlier. The speed with which the Bund and other Jewish political parties in the Russian Empire could rise, fall, and rise again reflects the pressures the community was under, resulting in both sober caution and daring, desperate dreams.

May 06, 2020

Yuu Nishimura discusses the current state of Yiddish Studies in Japanese universities as well as her own resesarch and a workshop she organized at the universities of Kyoto and Tokyo on “Yiddishism and the Creation of the Yiddish Nation.” 

May 30, 2017

In this peer-reviewed article, Adi Mahalel follows Peretz's search, through new literary styles, for new forms of revolutionary politics.

May 22, 2016