Proclamation of the Jewish Labor Bund

Central Committee of the Bund

1903

To All Jewish Workers Male and Female!

On the sixth and seventh of April a pogrom took place in Kishinev! A band of Christians attacked the Jewish townspeople and with the greatest cruelty they destroyed Jewish homes, stores, study houses and brought to ruin a large number of Jewish families. Up to forty-one people were felled at the hands of this…

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Central Committee of the Bund

1897–1949

The Central Committee was the chief executive organ of the General Jewish Labor Bund, and in the first two decades of the party’s existence, the Central Committee exercised clear control over all Bund organs and positions. In 1897, when The Bund was founded, Arkadi Kremer, Vladimir Kossovsky, and Avrom (Glyeb) Mutnik constituted the first Central Committee. It may be assumed that some or all of those founding figures had a hand in composing The Bund’s response to the unprecedentedly brutal Kishinev pogrom in spring 1903. In 1906, the Committee came to include Vladimir Medem, who played a central role in developing The Bund’s ideological doctrines in those years. In The Bund’s second great iteration, in interwar Poland, the structure of power was considerably different and the Central Committee did not play the same determining role.

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