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

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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.

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If one wants to understand the spirit, the culture, the soul of the Bund, one should read this book.

Marvin S. Zuckerman, Dissent

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Frank Wolff, PD Dr. habil., is a historian and researcher at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrck University. His other publications include Die Mauergesellschaft: Kalter Krieg, Menschenrechte und die deutsch-deutsche Migration 19611989 (Suhrkamp, 2019) and What Is a Migration Regime Was ist ein Migrationsregime (Springer VS, 2018).