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Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration

The Transnational History of the Jewish Labour Bund

Frank Wolff author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Haymarket Books

Published:23rd Dec '21

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This ground-breaking history of the General Jewish Labour Bund in migration investigates how the organisation transformed itself from a revolutionary protagonist in early twentieth-century Russia to a socialist institution of secular Jewish life and yidishkayt for Jews in North and South America. By following thousands of activists’ paths from the shtetls of Eastern Europe to the working-class Yiddish neighbourhoods of New York and Buenos Aires, Frank Wolff traces the networks that connected these revolutionaries on both sides of the Atlantic, resulting in a richly detailed social history of this seminal transnational movement.

“If one wants to understand the spirit, the culture, the soul of the Bund, one should read this book.”

—Marvin S. Zuckerman, Dissent

ISBN: 9781642596069

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532 pages