60 Years of the "Bund" in Melbourne

Journal article

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In Journal Issue

Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, 14, 1 (1997)

Author W D Rubinstein AbstractBook Review: The Social Democratic Bund was probably the largest single Jewish political party in Poland during the inter-war period. It was probably at least as large as its two major rivals, Agudas Israel, the strictly Orthodox party, and the Zionist movement collectively (fragmented as the Zionist movement was into rival groups and factions.) Moreover, the Bund not merely showed no signs of declining in the years just before the Holocaust, but actually won the kehilla elections of 193536 in triumphant fashion. Many Polish Jews saw in the Bund the only Jewish party ready to meet Polish anti-Semitism head-on (in contrast to both Agudas Israel and the Zionists), while the Bund's social democracy was seen as a response to the chronic poverty of Polish Jewry, again in contrast to either of its main rivals.
Year1997
Pages158