The General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia, generally called The Bund, or the Jewish Labour Bund, was a secular Jewish socialist party initially formed in the Russian Empire and ac
The house in Vilna where the Bund was founded
Executive Committee of the Warsaw Garment Workers' Union, 1917
Members of the Bund with the bodies of their comrades, murdered during the Odessa pogrom in 1905
Central Committee of the Bund at the 10th Party Conference, 1917
Poale Zion was a movement of Marxist–Zionist Jewish workers founded in various cities of Poland, Europe and the Russian Empire at about the turn of the 20th century after the Bund rejected Zionism in
General Jewish Labour Bund
…mainly among Jewish artisans and workers, but also among the growing Jewish intelligentsia. It led a trade union movement of its own. It joined with the Poalei Zion (Labour Zionists) and other groups to form self-defense organisations to protect Jewish communities against pogroms and government troops. During the…
Poalei Zion's "Ezra" group in Płońsk, 1905. David Grün (David Ben-Gurion) in the first row, third on the right.
Poalei Zion members in Warsaw, Congress Poland, 1905. Standing, from right to left: Eliezer Salzkin and Yitzhak Tabenkin. Sitting, from right to left: Max Tabenkin, who never emigrated to Israel, Eva Tabenkin, Yosef Zaltzman and Elkana Horowitz.
The editorial staff of HaAhdut. Right to left: seated – Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, David Ben-Gurion, Yosef Haim Brenner; standing – Aharon Reuveni (Ben-Zvi's brother), Ya'akov Zerubavel (1910).