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

Wolff, Frank,

Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration : The Transnational History of the Jewish Labour Bund / The Transnational History of the Jewish Labour Bund Frank Wolff. - 1 online resource. - Historical Materialism Book Series ; 226 Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441316 . - Historical Materialism Book Series ; 226. Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441316. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bundist Activism -- Activism Patterns in Eastern Europe: Constituting the Transferable -- Remembrance as Activist Practice: Initial Considerations -- The Bundist Press: From Agitational Publications to TransnationalMemorik -- Memories beyond 'Me' and 'Us': Bundist Autobiography as Social Formation -- Preserving Collective Knowledge in Migration: Collective Biography and Questionnaires -- Preliminary Conclusions -- Between Here and There: Bundist Gatherings Overseas -- Reproduction as Creation: Worker Organisation and Secondary Bundism -- Politics, Economics, Yidishkayt: The Tangled Web of Class Struggle and Cultural Work -- Passing on Yidishkayt: Transfers and Limits of Bundist Educational Work -- Relief Funds as Weapons: From Revolutionary Fundraising to Transnational Cultural Work

"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"--

9789004321397 9789004321380

10.1163/9789004321397 DOI

2020045227


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


Jews--Politics and government--Europe, Eastern--20th century.
Jewish socialists--History.--Europe, Eastern
Labor Zionism--History.--Europe, Eastern

HD6305.J3

331.6/392404709041