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Bernard Goldstein's memoir describes a hard world of taverns, toughs, thieves, and prostitutes; of slaughterhouse workers, handcart porters, and wagon drivers; and of fist-and gunfights with everyone from anti-Semites and Communists to hostile police, which is to say that it depicts a totally different view of life in prewar Poland than the one usually portrayed. As such, the book offers a corrective view in the form of social history, one that commands attention and demands respect for the vitality and activism of the generation of Polish Jews so brutally annihilated by the barbarism of the Nazis. In Warsaw, a city with over 300,000 Jews (one third of the population), Bernstein was the Jewish Labor Bund's "enforcer," organizer, and head of their militia-the one who carried out daily, on-the-street organization of unions; the fighting off of Communists, Polish anti-Semitic hooligans, and antagonistic police; marshaling and protecting demonstrations; and even settling family disputes, some of them arising from the new secular, socialist culture being fostered by the Bund. Goldstein's is a portrait of tough Jews willing to do battle-worldly, modern individuals dedicated to their folk culture and the survival of their people. It delivers an unparalleled street-level view of vibrant Jewish life in Poland between the wars: of Jewish masses entering modern life, of Jewish workers fighting for their rights, of optimism, of greater assertiveness and self-confidence, of armed combat, and even of scenes depicting the seamy, semi-criminal elements. It provides a representation of life in Poland before the great catastrophe of World War II, a life of flowering literary activity, secular political journalism, successful political struggle, immersion in modern politics, fights for worker rights and benefits, a strong social-democratic labor movement, creation of a secular school system in Yiddish, and a youth movement that later provided the heroic fighters for the courageous Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Jews --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Ogólny Żydowski Związek Robotniczy "Bund" w Polsce. --- General Jewish Workers' Union of Poland --- "Bund" --- General Jewish Labor Bund --- Jewish Labor Bund --- Allgemeyner Yidisher arbayṭerbund in Poylen --- General Jewish Workers' Union in Poland --- Algemeiner Yiddischer Arbeiterbund in Poland --- Algemeyner Yidisher arbeṭerbund in Poylen --- Allgemeiner Jüdischer Arbeiterbund "Bund" in Polen --- אלגיימיינער אידישער ארבייטערבונד אין ליטאַ, פוילן און רוסלאנד --- אלגעמיינער יידישער ארבייטערבונד אין פוילן --- אלגעמיינער יידישער ארבעטער פארבאנד ״בונד״ פון פולין --- בונד --- בונד בליטא, בפולין, וברוסיה --- בונד בפולין --- בונד (פולין) --- תנועת הבונד בפולין --- Allgemeyner Idisher arbayṭerbund in Liṭa, Poylen un Rusland --- International Jewish Labor Bund --- E-books

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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.

HISTORY --- Europe / Eastern --- Working class Jews --- Jews --- Jewish socialists --- Labor movement --- Business & Economics --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- History --- Politics and government --- Allgemeyner Idisher arbayṭerbund in Liṭa, Poylen un Rusland --- Influence. --- Labor and laboring classes --- Socialists, Jewish --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Jewish working class --- Algemeyner Yidisher arbeṭer bund in Liṭe, Poyln un Rusland --- Algemeyner Yidisher arbeṭerbund in Liṭa, Poylen un Rusland --- Allgemeiner Jüdischer Arbeiterbund in Litauen, Polen und Russland --- Berit ha-poʻalim ha-Yehudit ha-kelalit be-Rusyah, Liṭa u-Polin --- Bund --- "Bund" ha-Rusi --- General Jewish Labor Bund --- General Jewish Workers' Bund --- "General Jewish Workers' League in Lithuania, Poland, and Russia (Bund)" --- Jewish Bund --- Jewish Labor Bund --- Jewish Workers' Bund --- Jüdischer Arbeiter-Bund Russlands --- Ogólno-Żydowski Związek Robotniczy na Litwie, w Polsce i Rosji --- Ogólny Żydowski Związek Robotniczy "Bund" na Litwie, w Polsce i w Rosji --- Powszechny Żydowski Związek Robotniczy w Polsce, Litwie i Rosji --- Rossiĭskai︠a︡ sot︠s︡ial-demokraticheskai︠a︡ rabochai︠a︡ partii︠a︡. --- Russian Bund --- Tenuʻat ha-Bund be-Polin --- Vseobshchiĭ evreĭskiĭ rabochiĭ soi︠u︡z v Litve, Polʹshe i Rossii --- Vseobshchiĭ evreiskiĭ soi︠u︡z v Litve, Polśhe i Rossii --- אללגעמײנער אידישער ארבײטערבונד אין ליטא, פױלען און רוסלאנד --- אלגעמיינער אידישער ארבייטערבונד אין ליטא, פוילען און רוסלאנד --- אלגעמיינער אידישער ארבייטערבונד אין ליטא, פוילן און רוסלאנד --- אלגעמיינער יידישער ארבעטער פארבאנד ״בונד״ פון ליטא, פולין, און רוסלאנד --- בונד --- בונד הרוסי --- Unione generale degli operai ebrei di Russia, Polonia e Lituania --- Social movements --- Socialists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Ogólny Żydowski Związek Robotniczy "Bund" w Polsce --- E-books --- Allgemeyner Idisher arbayterbund in Lita, Poylen un Rusland