This ground-breaking history of the General Jewish Labour Bund in
migration investigates how the organisation transformed itself from a
revolutionary protagonist in early twentieth-century Russia to a
socialist institution of secular Jewish life and yidishkayt for Jews
in North and South America. By following thousands of activists’
paths from the shtetls of Eastern Europe to the working-class Yiddish
neighbourhoods of New York and Buenos Aires, Frank Wolff traces the
networks that connected these revolutionaries on both sides of the
Atlantic, resulting in a richly detailed social history of this
seminal transnational movement.