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The Archives of the Jewish Bund: New Materials on the Revolutionary Movement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2019

Henry J. Tobias
Henry J. Tobias*
Affiliation:
Elmira College
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The history of the Jewish socialist movement in Russia and Eastern Europe, as well as its relationship to the general revolutionary movement in the Russian Empire are, for the most part, little known to the American student of Russia and Eastern Europe. This deficiency is due, in some measure, to the fact that until a comparatively recent time, source materials have been available in this country to a limited degree. As a result of World War II, the large East European concentration of Jews was broken up, the great majority of the members of that community having been killed, and the remaining few scattered to all corners of the globe.

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Research Article
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American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , February 1958 , pp. 81 - 85
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1958

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References

1 The Archives are presently housed at 25 East 78th Street, New York 21, N. Y.

2 The full name of the Bund at that time was General Jewish Workers League (Bund) in Russia and Poland. Later its official designation was changed to include Lithuania,

3 J- Mill, Pionern un Boier (Pioneers and Builders) (New York, 1949) II, 49. Yiddish. Mill, who was one of the original founders of the Bund and of its Foreign Committee, established the Bund Archives.

4 This request was made in the organ of the Foreign Committee, Der Yiddisher Arbeter No. 7 (The Jewish Worker), August, 1899, p. 40. Mill was the editor of the organ at that time.

5 Mill, op. cit., p. 50.

6 The author wishes to acknowledge the information on the above points and many others which he received from Arkady Kahan. Mr. Kahan is former director of the Archives and is presently associated with the Economics Department of the University of Chicago.

7 J. Mill, “Der Ernes vegn dem Bundishn Arkhiv,” (“The Truth About the Bund Archives”), Unzer Tsait (May, 1950), pp. 52-53.

8 Ibid., p. 53. Mutnikovich (Mutnik, Gleb) was one of the most important organizers and workers in the early years of the Bund's existence. The original will is still extant, preserved in the Archives. Mutnikovich briefly relates his activities with respect to the Archives in his memoirs, “Bletlakh fun Main Leben,” (“Pages out of My Life”) Zukunft No. 12 (December, 1933), p. 720.

9 J. Mill, “Franz Kursky,” Unzer Tsait No. 2 (February, 1950), p. 5. Vladeck was an important figure in the socialist and labor movements among the Jews in the United States.

10 Ibid.

11 Ibid. See also V. Shulman, “Der Lebensveg fun Franz Kursky,” (“The Path of Life of Franz Kursky“) Unzer Tsait, No. 3 (March, 1950), p. 13.

12 Mill, loc. cit., Unzer Tsait No. 5 (May, 1950), p. 54; V. Shulman, loc. cit.

13 Mill, loc. cit., Unzer Tsait No. 2 (February, 1950), p. 5.

14 The author is relying on the information given to him by Arkady Kahan (see note 6) and corroborated by J. S. Hertz, who has written extensively in Yiddish on Bund history and is presently an official of the Archives.

15 A. Menes, “Der Lebensveg fun Franz Kursky,” Franz Kursky: Gezamlte Shriften (New York, 1952), p. 20.