The international Jewish Labor Bund after 1945 : toward a global history / David Slucki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slucki, David, 1984-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Allgemeyner Idisher arbayṭerbund in Liṭa, Poylen un Rusland--Influence.

Allgemeyner Idisher arbayṭerbund in Liṭa, Poylen un Rusland.

Working class Jews--History--21st century.

Working class Jews.

Jews--Politics and government--20th century.

Jews.

Jewish socialists--History--20th century.

Jewish socialists.

Working class Jews--History--20th century.

Labor movement--History--20th century.

Labor movement.

Jews--Politics and government--21st century.

Jewish socialists--History--21st century.

Labor movement--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

A new world order: the Bund's postwar transformation

On the ruins of the old world: the Bund in Central and Eastern Europe

Between the old world and the new: the Bund in France

The goldene medineh? The Bund in the United States

New frontiers: the Bund in Melbourne

Here-ness, there-ness, and everywhere-ness: the Bund and Israel.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-86452-5

0-8135-5225-7

OCLC:

778339827