Essay
Doikayt in Oakland: Putting the Pieces Together
Bundist ideas inspired new traditions rooted in Jewish culture, history, and values in NorCal.
Latest
News
IJLB Issues Statement on Venezuela and US Imperial Intervention
In the past, the Bund has avoided supporting national self-determination on principle. This error has led Bundists away from the working class, and into opportunist support for Imperialist powers and wars.
Interview
Daniel Kahn on Radical Yiddish Autonomy, Bundism, and Productive Provocation
The singer-songwriter sits down with us at Yiddish New York to talk about his new album and what it means to sing in Yiddish today.
History
Introducing The ‘Tuers’: Translations from Doyres Bundistn, Part 3: Anne Braude-Heller
The doctor-activist is often publicly remembered for her heroism in the Warsaw Ghetto, and less for her political activity with the Bund before 1940.
History
For a Bundist Chanukah (the Best-Worst Jewish Holiday)
We can think of the struggles that might have been left out of history, so that new struggles can make history today.
Der Spekter needs YOU: 2025 in review
The future of Bundism and how to get involved with Der Spekter.
History
Manifesto of the General Jewish Workers’ Union (Bund) in Poland
Baited by Polish nationalism and scoffed at by Jewish nationalism, the Bund never grew tired of calling upon the Jewish masses; ‘‘Do not succumb to despair; do not surrender to any feeling of panic!’’
History
Word on the street is…
An article by Philadelphia shul teacher Shloyme Davidman reveals the extent to which secular Yiddish shuls were embedded in in the everyday lives and struggles of the working class.
Poetry
Brothering Ketubah
Blessed is the Oneness, Spirit of the Universe, Which brings us Together and makes us more Whole
Dispatches
From the Editors: Two Years
Dear readers, It is a harsh reality that we have now surpassed two years of genocide in Gaza. A year ago, on October 7, 2024, we wrote a similar editorial whose words we may repeat here: “we bear the moral stain of wanton slaughter of tens of thousands of women
Visual Arts
From the Shtetls to Palestine
To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressor.
Essay
Free DC, Free Palestine: Finding Hope Against All Odds
I am writing this to break the dam of unknowing and unseeing, to paint a “big picture” for those still clinging to their ignorance. There is, in fact, a horizon.