Jewish Politics in Eastern Europe

NATALIA ALEKSIUN Department of History, Warsaw UniversityDANIEL BALTMAN Lecturer, Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University, JerusalemABRAHAM BRUMBERG AuthorJOHN BUNZL Research Fellow, Austrian Institute for International AffairsNATHAN COHEN Lecturer, Rena Costa Center for Yiddish Studies, Bar-Ilan UniversityDAVID ENGEL Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History, New York UniversityFRANCOIS GUESNET Lecturer, Leipzig UniversityMARIO KESSLER Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Free University, BerlinRICK KUHN Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Australian National University, CanberraSUSANNE MARTEN-FINNIS Lecturer in German, The Queen's University of BelfastSUSANNE MILLER AuthorYOAV PELED Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Tel Aviv UniversityGERTRUD PICKHAN Lecturer, Leipzig UniversityFELIKS TYCH Director of Jewish Historical Institute, WarsawPAWEL SAMUS Professor of History, University of LodzMAREK WEB Head Archivist, YIVO Institute for Jewish ResearchCLAUDIE WEIL Historian, EHESS, ParisPIOTR WROBEL Konstanty Reynert Chair of Polish Studies, University of TorontoJOSHUA A. ZIMMERMAN Assistant Professor of East European Jewish History, Yeshiva University

• Acknowledgements Glossary Notes on the Contributors Foreword; F.Tych Introduction; J.Jacobs PART ONE: IN THE YEARS OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE Khevres and Akhdes: The Change in Jewish Self-Organization in the Kingdom of Poland before 1900 and the Bund; F.Guesnet The Bundist Press: A Study of Political Change and the Persistence of Anachronistic Language During the Russian Period; S.Marten-Finnis The Influence of the 'Polish Question' on the Bund's National Program, 1897-1905; J.Zimmerman Russian Bundists in Exile, 1898-1925; C.Weill PART TWO: THE BUND IN POLAND BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS Creating a Bundist Counter-Culture: On Morgnshtern and the Significance of Cultural Hegemony; J.Jacobs Kossovsky, Portnoy and Others: The Role of Members of the Bund's Founding Generation in the Inter-War Polish Bund; G.Pickhan The Bund: History of a Schism; A.Brumberg The Bund Organization in Lodz, 1898-1939; P.Samus The Bund and its Contribution to Cultural Life in Poland Between the Two World Wars; N.Cohen PART THREE: OTHER SOCIALISTS AND THE BUND The Jewish Social Democratic Party of Galicia and the Bund; R.Kuhn From Conflict to Cooperation: The Bund and the Polish Socialist Party, 1897-1939; P.Wróbel Austromarxism and the Jews in Galicia; J.Bunzl German Social Democrats and Polish Bundists in Exile in London, 1939-1945: Memoirs; S.Miller The Bund and the Labour and Socialist International; M.Kessler PART IV: THE HOLOCAUST AND POST-HOLOCAUST YEARS The National Ideology of the Bund in the Test of Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust (1933-1947); D.Blatman The Bund after the Holocaust: Between Renewal and Self-liquidation; D.Engel Was There a Future for Polish Jewry? Bundist and Zionist Polemics in Post-World War II Poland; N.Aleksiun Between New York and Moscow: The Fate of the Bund Archives; M.Web The Concept of National Cultural Autonomy: The First 100 Years; Y.Peled Index