General Jewish Labour Bund in Romania

1929 Romanian Bund poster, announcing a public meeting with Henryk Ehrlich as guest speaker

The General Jewish Labour Bund in Romania (Marxist-inspired Poale Zion bodies of Bessarabia, it rejected Zionism.

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In 1922 the Bundists of Bukovina (who had belonged to the United States, called the Gross Rumänische Arbeiter Liga ("Greater Romanian Workers League").^[1]

During the right-wing representatives of Jewish nationalism and the far left.^[2] The party had its main strength in Bessarabia, and to a lesser extent in Bukovina.^[3]^[4] Well represented at kehilla elections in the Bessarbian city of Chişinău, it lacked political presence in Transylvania.^[4] The party had a strong influence in the Yiddish school movement in Bessarabia,^[4] but was in competition over political support with the Zionists at Poale Zion and the Agudat Yisrael of Haredi Jews.^[3] In Bukovina, the Bund was secondary to the Jewish Autonomist movement led by Benno Straucher and his Jewish National People's Party.^[1]^[3]

At the 1922 Senate election in Czernowitz, the Bundist [5]

Another (former) Bundist, Litman Ghelerter, led to the creation in July 1928 with Ștefan Voitec of a splinter group from the Romanian Social Democratic Party, the Socialist Workers Party of Romania (PSMR).^[6]

Although it survived the disappearance of its Russian mother party (persecuted by the Soviet authorities after 1920),^[2] the General Jewish Labour Bund of Romania itself ceased to function at the time of the Second World War.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Joseph Kissman, "The History of the Jewish Worker Movement Bund in Bukovina", in Hugo Gold (ed.), History of the Jews in the Bukowina, Tel Aviv, Vol. 1 (1958), pp. 129-144
^ ^a ^b (Romanian) Boris Marian, "O carte-reper în studiul istoriei Europei Răsăritene", in Viața Românească, Nr. 12/2008
^ ^a ^b ^c (Romanian) Evrei. Profil spiritual, at Divers.ro; retrieved October 6, 2009
^ ^a ^b ^c Ezra Mendelsohn, The Jews of East Central Europe between the World Wars, Indiana University Press, 1987, p. 191. ISBN 0-253-20418-6
^ "Rümänien - Bei den Senatswahlen in Czernowitz" (in German). Vienna-Bratislava: , p.66

^ "110 ani de social-democratie în România" (in Romanian). Bucarest: Consiliul National al PSD. July 9, 2003. Retrieved 21 November 2009.

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General Jewish Labour Bund in Romania