The General Jewish Labor Bund, short: Bund, was founded in Vilna in 1897 as a socialist and anti-Zionist party closely connected to the world of Jewish workers and small artisans in the Pale of Settlement and later also in Poland due to its concept of doikayt (hereness) and by means of its network of trade unions and educational and cultural institutions. In addition to its socialist program, the Bund promoted national-cultural autonomy and became the most influen…