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Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund - A Memoir of Interwar Poland (Paperback)
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Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund - A Memoir of Interwar Poland (Paperback)
Series: Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies
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Bernard Goldstein's memoir describes a hard world of taverns,
toughs, thieves, and prostitutes; of slaughterhouse workers,
handcart porters, and wagon drivers; and of fist- and gunfights
with everyone from anti-Semites and Communists to hostile police,
which is to say that it depicts a totally different view of life in
prewar Poland than the one usually portrayed. As such, the book
offers a corrective view in the form of social history, one that
commands attention and demands respect for the vitality and
activism of the generation of Polish Jews so brutally annihilated
by the barbarism of the Nazis. In Warsaw, a city with over 300,000
Jews (one third of the population), Bernstein was the Jewish Labor
Bund's "enforcer," organizer, and head of their militia-the one who
carried out daily, on-the-street organization of unions; the
fighting off of Communists, Polish anti-Semitic hooligans, and
antagonistic police; marshaling and protecting demonstrations; and
even settling family disputes, some of them arising from the new
secular, socialist culture being fostered by the Bund. Goldstein's
is a portrait of tough Jews willing to do battle-worldly, modern
individuals dedicated to their folk culture and the survival of
their people. It delivers an unparalleled street-level view of
vibrant Jewish life in Poland between the wars: of Jewish masses
entering modern life, of Jewish workers fighting for their rights,
of optimism, of greater assertiveness and self-confidence, of armed
combat, and even of scenes depicting the seamy, semi-criminal
elements. It provides a representation of life in Poland before the
great catastrophe of World War II, a life of flowering literary
activity, secular political journalism, successful political
struggle, immersion in modern politics, fights for worker rights
and benefits, a strong social-democratic labor movement, creation
of a secular school system in Yiddish, and a youth movement that
later provided the heroic fighters for the courageous Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising.
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