Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund

Foreword
Translator’s Preface
Acknowledgments
Bernard Goldstein: A Chronology
Translator’s Note
Original Introduction by Dr. Emanuel Sherer, General Secretary of the Jewish Labor Bund
1. I Go Home
2. Back in Warsaw
3. Praga
4. The Seven Lions
5. The First of May Demonstration in Praga, 1920
6. Pogrom at the Praga Bund Club
7. Janek Jankelewicz
8. The Cracow Convention
9. A Hail of Persecutions
10. Illegal Work—Once Again
11. The Danzig Convention
12. Coming to the Defense of the Movement
13. Organizing the Bund Militia
14. The Communists and the Underworld
15. The 1922 Election Campaign
16. Unifying the Trade Union Movement
17. The Slaughterers Union
18. Three Slaughterer Dynasties
19. The Transport Workers Union: Back Porters
20. Back Porter Types
21. Rope and Handcart Porters
22. The Food Workers Union
23. The Bakers Union
24. Bagel Bakers and Peddlers
25. A 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. The Piłsudski Coup, the PPS, and the FRACs
33. The FRAC Militia
34. A New Gang of Communist Strong-Arms
35. Communists Shoot at a Workers Convention
36. Morgnshtern
37. The Labor Sports Olympiad in Prague
38. Ominous Dark Clouds on All Sides
39. Concerns about Self-Defense
40. A Wave of Wildcat Strikes
41. An Attempted Murderous Assault on Me
42. In Zakopane
43. Attacks on a Night School
44. The 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. The Militia Comes to the Aid of Bundist Members on the Warsaw City Council
53. First of May Demonstrations Under the Piłsudski Regime
54. A 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. The “Ghetto Benches” in the Universities
59. My Son at the SKIF Camp
60. The 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. The FRACs Try to Take Over the Newspaper Deliverers Union
67. The 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. A Defeat for the Priest, Father Trzeciak
72. Przytyk and the Protest-Strike on March 17, 1936
73. The 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. The Pogrom in Brisk
78. The Bund’s Warsaw Locales
79. A Bombing of the Bund Offices—And Our Answer to the Oenerowcy
80. An Oenerowcy Attempt to Murder Comrade Henryk Erlich
81. December 18, 1938
82. A Final Look at Our Youth
Glossary of Terms, Names, and Acronyms
References
Index