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Resources

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Below is a growing list of links relating to the Jewish Labour Bund, its history, archives and other information.

  • SKIF, the youth organisation of the Bund in Melbourne;

  • Workmen's Circle in New York, a progressive Jewish cultural organisation rooted in social action for over a century

  • Bundism.net, a guide through the history of the Bund - more links can be found here;

  • YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, an organisation focused on research of history and culture of East European Jewry;

  • Yiddishkayt, a cultural organisation focusing on preserving and investigating forgotten, disappearing and interesting aspects of Eastern European Yiddish Culture;

  • In One Voice festival, an all inclusive Australian Jewish culture festival co-sponsored by SKIF and the Kadimah;

  • Stand Up: A Jewish Commitment to a Better World, a Melbourne organisation focused on delivering aid to marginalised communities in Australia and abroad on behalf of the Australian Jewish Community.

  • Jewish Holocaust Centre was created by Melbourne Holocaust survivors, including a number of Bundistn like co-founder Bono Wiener, as a memorial to the 6 million Jews who were murdered in WWII with a mission to educate the public ‘to combat antisemitism, racism and prejudice in the community’.

  • Kadimah Jewish Cultural Centre and National Library is the foremost Yiddish cultural institution in Melbourne. With a rich history spanning over 100 years and across Melbourne, from Bourke St to Carlton to Elsternwick, the Kadimah continues its work promoting Yiddish language and culture.

  • The Australian Bund Wikipedia Page is being constantly developed and added to with thanks to local and international khaveyrim and labour historians.

Bund Reading List

​60 years of 'Bund' in Melbourne, 1928-1988

Moshe Ajzenbud // Translated by Chana & Moishe Mrocki

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Bundist Counterculture in Interwar Poland (2009)

Jack Jacobs

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Jewish Politics in Eastern Europe: The Bund at 100 (2001)

Jack Jacobs

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20 Years with the Jewish Labor Bund

Bernard Goldstein // Translated by Marvin S. Zuckerman

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The International Jewish Labor Bund after 1945: Toward a Global History

David Slucki

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For Our Freedom and Yours: The Jewish Labour Bund in Poland 1939-1949

Daniel Blatman

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Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration: The Transnational History of the Jewish Labour Bund (2022)

Frank Wolff

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Der Bund In Bilder 1897-1957 דער בונד אין בילדער
J. S. Hertz 

Access through Yiddish Book Center 

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Socialism in Yiddish (History of the Jewish Labour Bund in Sweden) (2022)
Håkan Blomqvist

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The Bund: A Graphic History of Jewish Labour Resistance (2023)

Sharon Rudahl (Author); Paul Buhle (Editor); Michael Kluckner (Artist)

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Memoirs

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Sing This at My Funeral: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons (2019)

David Slucki

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Strength of Hope

Abram Goldberg and Fiona Harris

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