Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration: The Transnational History of the Jewish Labour Bund

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This ground-breaking history of the General Jewish Labour Bund 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. ‎Contents ‎Preface ‎Editorial Note ‎Figures and Tables ‎Abbreviations ‎Introduction ‎Part 1. The Bund as a Social Movement ‎Chapter 1. Bundist Activism ‎Chapter 2. Activism Patterns in Eastern Europe: Constituting the Transferable ‎Part 2. ‘Exalted Moments of Our Romantic Past’: Community Building through Collective Remembrance ‎Chapter 3. Remembrance as Activist Practice: Initial Considerations ‎Chapter 4. The Bundist Press: From Agitational Publications to Transnational Memorik ‎Chapter 5. Memories beyond ‘Me’ and ‘Us’: Bundist Autobiography as Social Formation ‎Chapter 6. Preserving Collective Knowledge in Migration: Collective Biography and Questionnaires ‎Chapter 7. Preliminary Conclusions ‎Part 3. Old Masses in New Streets: Transnationalising the Bund ‎Chapter 8. Between Here and There: Bundist Gatherings Overseas ‎Chapter 9. Reproduction as Creation: Worker Organisation and Secondary Bundism ‎Chapter 10. Politics, Economics, Yidishkayt: The Tangled Web of Class Struggle and Cultural Work ‎Chapter 11. Passing on Yidishkayt: Transfers and Limits of Bundist Educational Work ‎Chapter 12. Relief Funds as Weapons: From Revolutionary Fundraising to Transnational Cultural Work ‎Conclusion, or: The Ambivalence of Bundist Modernity ‎Bibliography ‎Index