My original title for this essay was: an American Bund? I find it funny when people say there was no Jewish Labor Bund in the US, since US Bundists founded 2 Yiddishkayt Jewish socialist organizations, the Arbeter Ring & the IWO, aligned with the Socialist Party & the Communist Party rsp 1/8 🧵
JacobinIn the early 1900s, the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order fought for multiracial democracy and Yiddish culture, building solidarity across ethnic and racial lines — until it was destroyed by the Red Scare.
