Vilnius, Lithuania. The General Jewish Labor Bund of Lithuania, Poland, and Russia (Yiddish: אַלגעמײנער ייִדישער אַרבעטער־בונד אין ליטע, פּױלן און רוסלאַנד), generally called The Bund (Yiddish: דער בונד, cognate with German: Bund, literally ‘federation’ or ‘union’), is founded: a secular Jewish socialist party initially formed in the Russian Empire and active between 1897 and 1920. In 1917, the Bund organizations in Poland separated from the Russian Empire Bund and created A new Polish General Jewish Labor Bund continued to operate in Poland in the years between the two world wars. The majority faction of the Russian Bund was dissolved in 1921 and incorporated into the Communist Party. Other remnants of the Bund survived in various countries. A member of the Bund was called a Bundist.
