JACK JACOBS is Associate Professor of Government at John Jay College, The City University of New York and served as a Fulbright Research Fellow at Tel Aviv University in 1996-7. He is the author of Socialists and 'the Jewish Question' after Marx (1992) and has published articles in several journals including the International Review of Social History and Studies in Contemporary Jewry.

• Acknowledgements Glossary Notes on the Contributors Foreword; F.Tych Introduction; J.Jacobs PART ONE: IN THE YEARS OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE Khevres and Akhdes: The Change in Jewish Self-Organization in the Kingdom of Poland before 1900 and the Bund; F.Guesnet The Bundist Press: A Study of Political Change and the Persistence of Anachronistic Language During the Russian Period; S.Marten-Finnis The Influence of the 'Polish Question' on the Bund's National Program, 1897-1905; J.Zimmerman Russian Bundists in Exile, 1898-1925; C.Weill PART TWO: THE BUND IN POLAND BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS Creating a Bundist Counter-Culture: On Morgnshtern and the Significance of Cultural Hegemony; J.Jacobs Kossovsky, Portnoy and Others: The Role of Members of the Bund's Founding Generation in the Inter-War Polish Bund; G.Pickhan The Bund: History of a Schism; A.Brumberg The Bund Organization in Lodz, 1898-1939; P.Samus The Bund and its Contribution to Cultural Life in Poland Between the Two World Wars; N.Cohen PART THREE: OTHER SOCIALISTS AND THE BUND The Jewish Social Democratic Party of Galicia and the Bund; R.Kuhn From Conflict to Cooperation: The Bund and the Polish Socialist Party, 1897-1939; P.Wróbel Austromarxism and the Jews in Galicia; J.Bunzl German Social Democrats and Polish Bundists in Exile in London, 1939-1945: Memoirs; S.Miller The Bund and the Labour and Socialist International; M.Kessler PART IV: THE HOLOCAUST AND POST-HOLOCAUST YEARS The National Ideology of the Bund in the Test of Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust (1933-1947); D.Blatman The Bund after the Holocaust: Between Renewal and Self-liquidation; D.Engel Was There a Future for Polish Jewry? Bundist and Zionist Polemics in Post-World War II Poland; N.Aleksiun Between New York and Moscow: The Fate of the Bund Archives; M.Web The Concept of National Cultural Autonomy: The First 100 Years; Y.Peled Index