Bundist Counterculture in Interwar Poland

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BUNDIST Counterculture in Interwar Poland . . . Jack Jacobs Syracuse University Press Published in cooperation with The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Copyright © 2009 by Syracuse University Press Syracuse, New York 13244-5160 All Rights Reserved First Edition 2009 09 10 11 12 13 14 6 5 4 3 2 1 Published in cooperation with The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48–1984.∞™ For a listing of books published and distributed by Syracuse University Press, visit our Web site at SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu. ISBN: 978-0-8156-3226-9 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jacobs, Jack Lester, 1953– Bundist counterculture in interwar Poland / Jack Jacobs. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (Modern Jewish History) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8156-3226-9 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Jews—Poland—Social conditions—20th century. 2. Jewish youth— Poland—Societies and clubs—History—20th century. 3. Jewish socialists— Poland—History—20th century. 4. Poland—Ethnic relations. 5. Ogólny Zydowski Zwiazek Robotniczy “Bund” w Polsce—History. I. Title. DS134.55.J33 2009 305.892'4043809042—dc22 2008051730 Manufactured in the United States of America To my mother, Hinda Jacobs Jack Jacobs is acting associate provost and dean for academic affairs at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, a member of the doctoral faculty of the Graduate Center’s Program in Political Science, and professor of government at CUNY’s John Jay College. He is the author of On Socialists and “the Jewish Question” after Marx (1992) and the editor of Jewish Politics in Eastern Europe: The Bund at 100 (2001). ...