A Centenary of Jewish Politics in Eastern Europe: The Legacy of the Bund and the Zionist Movements
A Centenary of Jewish Politics in Eastern Europe: The Legacy of the Bund and the Zionist Movements
Author(s): Zvi GitelmanSubject(s): Jewish studies, Civil Society, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Government/Political systems, Nationalism Studies, Period(s) of Nation Building, Identity of Collectives
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Eastern Europe; Jewish politics; Zionist movements; Jewish political movements; Jewish state; Israel; nationalism; socialism; democracy;
Summary/Abstract: The year 1997 marks a century since the founding of two Jewish political movements, one triumphant and the other largely forgotten, that brought East European Jewry into the modern era of politics. While Zionism achieved its primary aim, the founding of a Jewish state, the Jewish Labor Bund has not only essentially disappeared, but its ideals of socialism and secular Jewishness based in the Diaspora seem to have failed and to have been repudiated by Jews and others. Yet, perhaps more than Zionism, it was the Bund that profoundly changed the structure of Jewish society, politics, and culture in Eastern Europe and, by extension, in the Americas, much of Western Europe, and Israel. [...]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 11/1997
- Issue No: 03
- Page Range: 543-559
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English
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