Political Parties Disestablished in 1948 - General Jewish Labour Bund in Poland, Polish Workers' Party, Hungarian Communist Party (Paperback)

Chapters: General Jewish Labour Bund in Poland, Polish Workers' Party, Hungarian Communist Party, Socialist Party (Sweden, 1929), Social Christian Party, Freedom Party, Hebrew Communists, Labour Democratic Party, Independent Citizen's Association, Italian Unionist Movement, Radical Democratic Party. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 44. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: 1890s to World War IRussia Austria-Hungary Polish Bund redirects here. For other meanings, see Bund (Poland).The General Jewish Labour Bund in Poland (Yiddish: tr: Algemeyner yidisher arbeter bund in poyln, Polish: ) was a Jewish socialist party in Poland which promoted the political, cultural and social autonomy of Jewish workers, sought to combat antisemitism and was generally opposed to Zionism. The Polish Bund emerged out of the General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia of the erstwhile Russian empire. The Bund had party structures established amongst the Jewish communities in the Polish areas of the Russian empire. When Poland fell under German occupation in 1914, contact between the Bundists in Poland and the party centre in St. Petersburg became difficult. In November 1914 the Bund Central Committee appointed a separate Committee of Bund Organizations in Poland to run the party in Poland. Theoretically the Bundists in Poland and Russia were members of the same party, but in practice the Polish Bundists operated as a party of their own. In December 1917 the split was formalized, as the Polish Bundists held a clandestine meeting in Lublin and reconstituted themselves as a separate political party. In April 1920 the first convention of the Polish Bund was held, during which the merger of the Galician Jewish Social Democratic Party into the Bund was materialized. At the conference a dispute over w...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=249095