[Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements--Book announcement:Bundistinnen. Women in the Bund

[Victor Bers]

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Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 21:17:35 +0200
From: Viola Höll" <violaho at gmx.net> <mailto:violaho at gmx.net>
Subject: Book ANN: Bundistinnen. Women in the Bund

Recently a book about women in the Bund (1897-1939) has been published 
at Universitätsverlag Potsdam. It is written in German (quotations in 
Yiddish) and has a detailed English summary.

The book is published in a printed version (10?) or in a free fulltext 
version. To download it just follow the link:
http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2009/2788/

If you have interest in the printed version you can order it here
http://info.ub.uni-potsdam.de/cgi-bin/publika/view.pl?id=472

or in any (online) bookstore.

Denz, Rebekka: Bundistinnen : Frauen im Allgemeinen Jüdischen 
Arbeiterbund ("Bund") dargestellt anhand der jiddischen 
Biographiensammlung "Doires Bundistn" (=Pri ha-Pardes 5, hg. von 
Nathanael Riemer im Auftrag der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V. in 
Verbindung mit dem Zentrum für Jüdische Studien der Universität 
Potsdam), Universitätsverlag Potsdam, Potsdam 2009, 169 S. ISSN 1863-7442
ISBN 978-3-940793-58-4

The Publisher's Descripton

In this publication the history of women active in the General Jewish 
Workers Bund (Bund) is outlined from its foundation 1897 up to 1939. The 
taken main sources are the women biographies of "Doires Bundistn", a 
collection of biographies written in Yiddish by members of the Bund. 
Through the prism of these texts the work and importance of women in 
this socialist, Yiddishistic movement in Eastern and Middle Europe are 
presented. Furthermore a first attempt is made to read this part of 
Bundist party history concerning its principles of (re-)construction.

The publication consists of two parts which are based on the Bundist 
self-concept and the geographical dislocation of its main field: Women 
in the "Russian Bund" (1897-1918) and women in the "Polish Bund" 
(1918-1939). The impact of the different historical contexts on 
lifestyle aspects, activities in the movement or rather in the party, 
the complex of themes concerning the way of living of female Bundists 
are pointed out in three comparative chapters. In other chapters it is 
dealt with themes specific for the different periods. The instability of 
the living conditions for the members of the illegal "Russian Bund" or 
the larger stability in the time of the "Polish Bund" as a legal party 
generates important, up to now neglected factors while examining the 
paradigms of female life styles.

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