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Twenty years with the Jewish Labor Bund : a memoir of interwar Poland /

Bernard Goldstein's memoir describes a hard world of taverns, toughs, thieves, and prostitutes; of slaughterhouse workers, handcart porters, and wagon drivers; and of fist-and gunfights with everyone from anti-Semites and Communists to hostile police, which is to say that it depicts a totally d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goldstein, Bernard, 1889-1959 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Yiddish
Publicado: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2016]
Colección:Shofar supplements in Jewish studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: 1. I Go Home
  • 2. Back in Warsaw
  • 3. Praga
  • 4. Seven Lions
  • 5. First of May Demonstration in Praga, 1920
  • 6. Pogrom at the Praga Bund Club
  • 7. Janek Jankelewicz
  • 8. Cracow Convention
  • 9. Hail of Persecutions
  • 10. Illegal Work
  • Once Again
  • 11. Danzig Convention
  • 12. Coming to the Defense of the Movement
  • 13. Organizing the Bund Militia
  • 14. Communists and the Underworld
  • 15. 1922 Election Campaign
  • 16. Unifying the Trade Union Movement
  • 17. Slaughterers Union
  • 18. Three Slaughterer Dynasties
  • 19. Transport Workers Union: Back Porters
  • 20. Back Porter Types
  • 21. Rope and Handcart Porters
  • 22. Food Workers Union
  • 23. Bakers Union
  • 24. Bagel Bakers and Peddlers
  • 25. Day in a Slaughter House
  • 26. Jewish and Polish Meat Workers
  • 27. At Parties and Celebrations
  • 28. Resistance: The First of May Demonstration, 1923
  • 29. Struggles over the Saturday Edition of the Folkstsaytung
  • 30. Commissar Cechnowski
  • 31. Kalmen the Bootmaker's Death
  • 32. Pilsudski Coup, the PPS, and the FRACs
  • 33. FRAC Militia
  • 34. New Gang of Communist Strong-Arms
  • 35. Communists Shoot at a Workers Convention
  • 36. Morgnshtern
  • 37. Labor Sports Olympiad in Prague
  • 38. Ominous Dark Clouds on All Sides
  • 39. Concerns about Self-Defense
  • 40. Wave of Wildcat Strikes
  • 41. Attempted Murderous Assault on Me
  • 42. In Zakopane
  • 43. Attacks on a Night School
  • 44. Medem Sanitarium Attacked
  • 45. Another Attempt on My Life
  • 46. Krochmalna Street
  • 47. Fat Yosl
  • 48. Khaskele
  • 49. "Malematke"
  • 50. Yukele
  • 51. Troubles with Cultural Awakening
  • 52. Militia Comes to the Aid of Bundist Members on the Warsaw City Council
  • 53. First of May Demonstrations Under the Pilsudski Regime
  • 54. Joint First of May Demonstration with the PPS
  • 55. In Red Vienna
  • 56. Street Fights with the Polish Hitlerites
  • 57. Battles over the Boycotting of Jewish Businesses
  • 58. "Ghetto Benches" in the Universities
  • 59. My Son at the SKIF Camp
  • 60. Bakers Union Turns Away from the Communists; The Murder of Neuerman
  • 61. Nathan (Nokhem) Chanin's Visit to Warsaw
  • 62. Three Bloody Attacks in One Day
  • 63. Temptations and Doubts
  • 64. Shloyme Mendelson
  • 65. In the Trap of the Shetshke Gang
  • 66. FRACs Try to Take Over the Newspaper Deliverers Union
  • 67. FRAC Transport Workers Union and Itshe "Zbukh"
  • 68. Returning Stolen Goods to a Leather Merchant
  • 69. Among the Retail Clerks; Another Worker Murdered
  • 70. Auctioning off the Folkstsaytung
  • 71. Defeat for the Priest, Father Trzeciak
  • 72. Przytyk and the Protest-Strike on March 17, 1936
  • 73. Pogrom in Minsk-Mazowiecki
  • 74. Antisemitic Hooligans Kill a Jewish Child during a First of May Demonstration
  • 75. Oenerowcy Leaders Are Taught a Lesson
  • 76. Guarding the Folkstsaytung
  • 77. Pogrom in Brisk
  • 78. Bund's Warsaw Locales
  • 79. Bombing of the Bund Offices
  • And Our Answer to the Oenerowcy
  • 80. Oenerowcy Attempt to Murder Comrade Henryk Erlich
  • 81. December 18, 1938
  • 82. Final Look at Our Youth.