Bundism
Sign in to saveBundism () is a Jewish socialist movement that emerged in Europe in the late 19th century that aimed to promote working class politics, secularism, and foster Jewish political and cultural autonomy. As a part of that autonomism, it also sought to advocate Yiddishism—the promotion and vitalisation of the Yiddish language and Yiddish culture—and Doikayt (Yiddish, 'hereness'), the concept that Jews have a right to live and organise where they already reside.
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21 sectionsContents
- Background
- Ideology
- Marxism
- Secularism
- Yiddishism
- Doikayt
- National-cultural autonomism
- Opposition to Zionism
- Before the creation of the State of Israel
- After 1947
- Contemporary developments
- Bundist members of parliaments or governments
- See also
- Explanatory footnotes
- References
- Citations
- Works cited
- Further reading
- In English
- In French
- In German
Bundism () is a Jewish socialist movement that emerged in Europe in the late 19th century that aimed to promote working class politics, secularism, and foster Jewish political and cultural autonomy. As a part of that autonomism, it also sought to advocate Yiddishism—the promotion and vitalisation of the Yiddish language and Yiddish culture—and Doikayt (Yiddish, 'hereness'), the concept that Jews have a right to live and organise where they already reside.
The first organizational manifestation was the General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland, and Russia, founded in the Russian Empire in 1897. Even with the dissolution of the first Bund in the 1920s, other Bundist organisations had already been established and continued to exist. Largest among them was the General Jewish Labour Bund in Poland in interwar Poland, which became a major political force within Polish-Jewish communities.