The Jewish Labour Bund in Poland, 1939-1949: For Our Freedom and Yours

The Jewish Labor Bund was a socialist political party that sought to convince Polish society to institute civic and economic rights for all and opposed Zionist efforts to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. Blatman (Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew U. of Jerusalem, Israel) describes how, after the invasion of the Nazis, the Bund went underground. He examines their political activities underground and in exile, arguing that the contributions of the Bund to the underground should be viewed as different from that of the Zionist or communist Jewish political movements. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR