![]() ![]() Simply to ensure its existence the Bund had to alter its paradigms and shift its focus from eastern Europe to a global setting. With the Soviet occupation of Poland, the Bund, having been declared illegal, finally lost its territory. By then, two years after the end of World War II, the Bund had lost thousands of its followers to German mass murder as well as some of its most important leaders to Stalin's terror. Instead of reiterating the idea that, once the state of Israel had been created, anti-Zionist movements became irrelevant to the historiography, Slucki asks what happened to the Bund during and after its radical postwar transformation, and how members of the formerly strong movement dealt with its concurrent decline.įor Slucki, this history started in 1947. David Slucki's book changes this, and at the same time tackles many of the assumptions that comfort modern Jewish history. Whereas many books controversially discuss a once mighty Jewish socialist party in Tsarist Russia and independent Poland, there is not a single study of its long postwar presence. ![]() Footnote 1 Libraries and bookshelves all over the world mirror this assumption. It is commonly assumed that before World War II the general Jewish Labor Bund strongly influenced Jewish history, but that after the war it became marginal and ultimately a story not even worth telling. ![]()
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