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The Bund held its sixth annual convention in early September 1938 in New York. [28] German American Bund rally poster at Madison Square Garden, February 20, 1939. Arguably, the zenith of the Bund's activities was the rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City on February 20, 1939. [29]
The General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia (Yiddish: אַלגעמײנער ייִדישער אַרבעטער־בונד אין ליטע, פּױלן און רוסלאַנד, romanized: Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter-bund in Lite, Poyln un Rusland), [2] generally called The Bund (Yiddish: דער בונד, romanized: Der Bund, cognate to German: Bund, lit.
Bundism was a secular Jewish socialist movement whose first organizational manifestation was the General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Belarus, Poland, and Russia (Yiddish: אַלגעמײנער ייִדישער אַרבעטער־בונד אין ליטע, פוילין און רוסלאַנד, romanized: Algemeyner yidisher arbeter-bund in ...
The Bund advised its members not to submit to the draft. On the basis of this piece of advice, the Bund was outlawed by the U.S. government, and Kuhn fled to Mexico. After many internal and leadership disputes, the Bund's executive committee agreed to disband the party on December 8, 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. On December ...
There was little organization or structure to this group. The group was also called the "Stewards Troop" (Ordnertruppen) around this time. [10] More than a year later, on August 3, 1921, Hitler redefined the group as the "Gymnastic and Sports Division" of the party (Turn- und Sportabteilung), perhaps to avoid trouble with the government.
[6] The Bund continued to justify and glorify Hitler and his movements in Europe during the outbreak of World War II. After Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Bund leaders released a statement demanding that America stay neutral in the ensuing conflict and expressed sympathy for Germany's war effort. The Bund reasoned that this support for the ...
In Warsaw, the Bund won 61.7% of the votes cast for Jewish parties, taking 17 of the 20 municipal council seats won by Jewish parties. In Łódź, the Bund won 57.4% (11 of 17 seats won by Jewish parties). [16] For the first time, the Bund and the PPS had agreed to call their electors to vote for each other where only one of them presented a list.
The rally occurred when the German American Bund's membership was dropping; Fritz Julius Kuhn hoped that a provocative high-profile event would reverse the group's declining fortunes. [3] The pro-Nazi Bund was unpopular in New York City, and some called for the event to be banned.