The Bund, Utopia for Real
This week I’ll tell you about The Bund, Utopia for Real, the TV documentary we produced in 1997, exactly 100 years after the Bund was created. A secret Jewish workers’ movement, the Bund or also written as BUND (Yiddish: בונד, cognate to German: Bund, ‘union’) was established in November 1897 in a small shack in the Russian town of Vilna. From thirteen men it had grown within a few years into an open and proud worldwide organization with hundreds … [Lees verder]