The Specter of the Bund

Crowd at demonstrations holding Save Moses Cemetery - Stop the Genocide banner & BACC support signs

News

DMV Jewish Labor Bund Statement of Acknowledgement and Support for Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition

June 4, 2025 We, the DMV Jewish Labor Bund, demand the end of the desecration of Moses Macedonia Cemetery, material reparations, and the public apologies of the Maryland Housing Opportunities Commission (HOC), the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (MNCPPC), and 1784 Holdings for their displacement of communities and destruction

2 signs from a protest, 1 reads "the adl bullies k-12 educators #droptheadl #freepalestine" and the other is cut off

Interview

How do we get the ADL out of schools?

A conversation with Nora Lester Murad of #DropTheADLfromSchools.

A sepia tone photo of a large crowd in a ballroom, with the caption reading Delegates and Guests at the 3rd world conference of the BUND, montreal, apreil8-15, 1955

History

World Jewry, the State of Israel, and the Defence of Yiddish: Statements and Resolutions from the Third World Bund Conference, 1955

At an international meeting of the Bund ten years after the Holocaust, Bundists highlighted the importance of participation in communal Jewish life, the preservation of Yiddish, and a "just peace" in Israel and Palestine.

Music

Daloy Politsey: a Yiddish “Fuck the Police” for May Day

In honor of May Day, Der Spekter is proud to share: a kleztronica commentary on “Daloy Politsey,” the latest single by New York-based artist Chaia.

Black-and-white image of men and women marching with banners in a Bundist rally in Belgium in 1935..

History

Is Zionism a Liberating Democratic Movement?

"Zionism has all along been a Siamese twin of anti- Semitism and every kind of nationalist chauvinism."

A large crowd holding a banner that reads, "make our future" marches through the street with various protest signs

Dispatches

Diaspora Dispatches Vol. 2

In the past several months, Bundists around the world have been actively organizing grassroots educational and cultural events as well as solidarity actions in their respective areas.

An image of two shelves of books on Marx, the Bund, and other related subjects, framed by Bundist flags.

News

From the Cafe Bund Library: An Appeal to Jewish Socialists and Diasporists, Wherever You Are

The Cafe Bund library is seeking contributions of books, pamphlets, zines, and periodicals.

News

The IJLB's Provisional Steering Committee: Bund Bulletin #1

The first update from the International Jewish Labor Bund's Provisional Steering Committee laying.

A still image of an illustrated vortex in green, pink, black and purple from "Lyd."

Interview

“A Wound Opened Between Realities”: an interview with Sarah Ema Friedland, co-director of “Lyd”

Director Sarah Ema Friedland discusses imagining a future of collective liberation in Palestine through speculative fiction.

Image calling for the removal of Neil Barofsky for abuse of power against US Auto Workers for supporting Gaza ceasefire.

Dispatches

Diaspora Dispatches Vol. 1

Dispatches of Bundist actions and reactions from across the Diaspora. This week, we feature greater Chicago, Northern California, and the DMV Bund.

Isabel Frey stands o a truck holding a guitar before a large crowd of protesters against the right-wing government in Vienna.

Interview

Millennial Bundist: an interview with Yiddish musician and activist Isabel Frey

Yiddish protest musician and activist Isabel Frey talks contemporary Bundist politics and the growing problem of philosemitism in Europe.

A photo of a woman with glasses and ear length gray hair looking down and to the left. She is wearing a gray turtleneck.

Interview

Irena Klepfisz: Perspective of a Lifelong Bundist

How do you resurrect a global movement that was nearly destroyed by genocide, fascism, and the wheels of time? And how do you continue that movement when so much has changed since its heyday? More than a century since the founding of the Bund in 1897, neo-Bundists today are facing

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