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Jewish Communist Labour Bund
Jewish Communist Labour Bund
Founded	18 February 1919
Dissolved	23 May 1919
Split from	Jewish Labour Bund
Merged into	Komfarband
Ideology	Communism
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The Jewish Communist Labour Bund (Yiddish: ײדישער קאמוניסטישנ ארבעטער בונד, 'Idishe Kommunistishe Arbeiter-Bund'), or the Kombund (קאמבונד), was a Jewish Communist political party in Ukraine, formed after a split in the General Jewish Labour Bund (Bund). Moisei Rafes and Aleksandr Chemerisky [fr] were the main leaders of the party.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Divisions had simmered within the Bund in Ukraine during the fall of 1918.^[4] At a meeting of the Bund branch in Kiev on 18 February 1919, held on the eve of the Third All-Ukrainian Conference of the Bund, the majority voted for a motion tabled by Rafes whereby the Kiev branch declared itself the Kiev branch of the Jewish Communist Labour Bund.^[5]^[6] Rafes' motion obtained 135 votes, against 79 votes for a motion reaffirming the affiliation with international social democracy and the all-Russian Bund party and 27 abstention. At the end of the vote, the Kiev Bund branch had split into two separate party organizations.^[5] The Kiev Bundist newspaper Folkstsaytung became the organ of the Kombund on 22 February 1919.^[7] Around the same time a similar split occurred in the Ekaterinoslav branch of the Bund (with 130 votes to become part a Kombund, against 108 votes against) in March 1919.^[5]^[8] The Poltava branch of the Bund voted, almost unanimously, to become part of a Kombund.^[5] In Kharkov two separate meetings were held, at the latter a majority voted to become a Kombund.^[5]

The Kombund supported Jewish national autonomy.^[1]^[9]^[10] The Kombund was internally divided on tactics visa-vi the Communist Party.^[6] The Kombund wasn't completely committed to the Bolshevik line as such, but supported the Soviet side in the Russian Civil War.^[6]^[11]^[12]

At the Third Conference of the Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Ukraine, held in March 1919, voted to refuse the Kombund 'group entry' into the party (101 voted to refuse the Kombund to merge with the party, 96 votes in favour of a merger).^[5] Whilst the CP(b)U recognized the need to collaborate with the Ukrainian Kombund, they refused to recognize the Kombund as a communist party. CP(b)U held that the Kombund was a middle class movement and its members were not given responsibilities in different Soviets.^[13] At the local level, the relationship between the Communist Party and the Kombund was often hostile.^[5]

In the wake of the Hryhoriev Uprising, the Kombund was given representation in the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee.^[6] In the midst of the peak of pogroms in central and southern Ukraine, unity talks between the Kombund and the United Jewish Communist Party (the Komfareynikte) intensified.^[6]^[2] The Yevsektsiya (the Jewish section of the Communist Party) oversaw meetings between the two parties.^[6] In May 1919 the Kombund held its first party conference in Kiev.^[14] At this conference, on 22 May 1919 the Kombund and the United Jewish Communist Party merged, forming the Jewish Communist Union in Ukraine (Komfarband).^[6]^[1]^[14]^[9]^[12]^[15]^[16]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Levin, Nora (1990). The Jews in the Soviet Union Since 1917: Paradox of Survival. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-5051-3. Retrieved 10 November 2009.
^ ^a ^b Goldman, Guido G. (1960). Zionism Under Soviet Rule, 1917-1928. Herzl Press. p. 45.
^ Schwarz, Solomon M. (1951). The Jews in the Soviet Union. Syracuse University Press. p. 98.
^ Abramson, Henry (1999). A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainians and Jews in Revolutionary Times, 1917-1920. Harvard University Press. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-916458-88-1.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Gitelman, Zvi (8 March 2015). Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics: The Jewish Sections of the CPSU, 1917-1930. Princeton University Press. pp. 174–176. ISBN 978-1-4008-6913-8.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g McGeever, Brendan (26 September 2019). The Bolshevik Response to Antisemitism in the Russian Revolution. Cambridge University Press. pp. 142, 145. ISBN 978-1-107-19599-8.
^ Bar, Arie (1980). The Jewish Press that was: Accounts, Evaluations, and Memories of Jewish Papers in Pre-Holocaust Europe. World Federation of Jewish Journalists. p. 288.
^ Smith, J. (13 January 1999). The Bolsheviks and the National Question, 1917–23. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-230-37737-0.
^ ^a ^b Ben-Sasson, Haim Hillel (1976). A History of the Jewish People. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 966. ISBN 9780674397316.
^ Pinkus, Benjamin (26 January 1990). The Jews of the Soviet Union: The History of a National Minority. Cambridge University Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-0-521-38926-6.
^ Wood, Elizabeth A. (2005). Performing Justice: Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. p. 261. ISBN 9780801442575.
^ ^a ^b Ben-Śaśon, Ḥayim Hilel; Brenner, Michael (2007). Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes: von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart [History of the Jewish people: from the beginnings to the present] (in German). München: Beck. p. 1186.
^ Baruch Gurevitz (15 September 1980). National Communism in the Soviet Union, 1918-28. University of Pittsburgh Pre. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-8229-7736-0.
^ ^a ^b Stalin, Iosif Vissarionovič (1938). Le marxisme et la question nationale [Marxism and the national question] (in French). Bureau d'editions. p. 7.
^ Gilboa, Jehoshua A. A Language Silenced: The Suppression of Hebrew Literature and Culture in the Soviet Union. Rutherford [N.J.]: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1982. p. 282
^ Browder, Earl (1968). Communist International. Greenwood Reprint Corporation. p. 80.

[levin-1] Levin, Nora (1990). The Jews in the Soviet Union Since 1917: Paradox of Survival. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-5051-3. Retrieved 10 November 2009.

[Goldman1960-2] Goldman, Guido G. (1960). Zionism Under Soviet Rule, 1917-1928. Herzl Press. p. 45.

[Schwarz1951-3] Schwarz, Solomon M. (1951). The Jews in the Soviet Union. Syracuse University Press. p. 98.

[Abramson1999-4] Abramson, Henry (1999). A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainians and Jews in Revolutionary Times, 1917-1920. Harvard University Press. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-916458-88-1.

[Gitelman2015b-5] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Gitelman, Zvi (8 March 2015). Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics: The Jewish Sections of the CPSU, 1917-1930. Princeton University Press. pp. 174–176. ISBN 978-1-4008-6913-8.

[McGeever2019-6] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g McGeever, Brendan (26 September 2019). The Bolshevik Response to Antisemitism in the Russian Revolution. Cambridge University Press. pp. 142, 145. ISBN 978-1-107-19599-8.

[Bar1980-7] Bar, Arie (1980). The Jewish Press that was: Accounts, Evaluations, and Memories of Jewish Papers in Pre-Holocaust Europe. World Federation of Jewish Journalists. p. 288.

[Smith1999-8] Smith, J. (13 January 1999). The Bolsheviks and the National Question, 1917–23. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-230-37737-0.

[hist-9] Ben-Sasson, Haim Hillel (1976). A History of the Jewish People. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 966. ISBN 9780674397316.

[Pinkus1990-10] Pinkus, Benjamin (26 January 1990). The Jews of the Soviet Union: The History of a National Minority. Cambridge University Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-0-521-38926-6.

[11] Wood, Elizabeth A. (2005). Performing Justice: Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. p. 261. ISBN 9780801442575.

[geg-12] Ben-Śaśon, Ḥayim Hilel; Brenner, Michael (2007). Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes: von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart [History of the Jewish people: from the beginnings to the present] (in German). München: Beck. p. 1186.

[Gurevitz1980-13] Baruch Gurevitz (15 September 1980). National Communism in the Soviet Union, 1918-28. University of Pittsburgh Pre. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-8229-7736-0.

[Stalin1938-14] Stalin, Iosif Vissarionovič (1938). Le marxisme et la question nationale [Marxism and the national question] (in French). Bureau d'editions. p. 7.

[15] Gilboa, Jehoshua A. A Language Silenced: The Suppression of Hebrew Literature and Culture in the Soviet Union. Rutherford [N.J.]: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1982. p. 282

[Browder1968-16] Browder, Earl (1968). Communist International. Greenwood Reprint Corporation. p. 80.

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-|position = [[Far-Left]]
+| ideology         = [[Communism]]
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+| merged           = [[Jewish Communist Union in Ukraine|Komfarband]]
+| dissolved        = {{end date|1919|05|23|df=yes}}
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-The '''Communist Bund''' (''Kombund'') was a [[Jew]]ish [[Communist]] [[political party]] in [[Ukraine]] and [[Bielorussia]], formed after a split in the [[General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia|General Jewish Labour Bund]] (''Bund''). In late 1918 Bund branches in cities like [[Bobruisk]], [[Ekaterinoburg]] and [[Odessa]] formed 'leftwing Bund groups'. In February 1919 these groups (representing the majority in Ukrainian Bund movement) adopted the name 'Communist Bund', constituting themselves as an independent party of the Jewish [[proletariat]]. The proletariat were a class of wage-earners in an economic society whose only possession of significant material value is their labour-power. The ''Kombund'' supported Jewish national autonomy.<ref name="levin">{{cite book|last=Levin|first=Nora|title=The Jews in the Soviet Union Since 1917: Paradox of Survival|publisher=New York University Press|location=New York|year=1990|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Nz0N5GBW6MC|accessdate=2009-11-10 | isbn=978-0-8147-5051-3}}</ref><ref name="hist">Ben-Sasson, Haim Hillel. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=2kSovzudhFUC A History of the Jewish People]''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1976. p. 966</ref><ref>Pinkus, Benjamin. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=52Ew77pZsNUC Jews of the Soviet Union: A History of a National Minority]''. [S.l.]: Cambridge, 1990. p. 128</ref> The Communist Bund supported the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] side in the [[Russian Civil War]].<ref>Wood, Elizabeth A. ''[https://archive.org/details/performingjustic00wood Performing Justice: Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia]''. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2005. p. 261</ref><ref name="geg">Ben-Śaśon, Ḥayim Hilel, and Michael Brenner. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=3cSytf4nC_4C Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes: von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart]''. München: Beck, 2007. p. 1186</ref> The Communist Bund had only fifteen members aged 35 years and above.<ref name="Gitelman2015">{{cite book|author=Zvi Gitelman|title=Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics: The Jewish Sections of the CPSU, 1917-1930|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ufZ9BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA197|date=8 March 2015|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-6913-8|page=197}}</ref>
+The '''Jewish Communist Labour Bund''' ({{langx|yi|ײדישער קאמוניסטישנ ארבעטער בונד}}, 'Idishe Kommunistishe Arbeiter-Bund'), or the '''''Kombund''''' (קאמבונד), was a [[Jew]]ish [[Communist]] [[political party]] in [[Ukraine]], formed after a split in the [[General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia|General Jewish Labour Bund]] (''Bund''). [[Moisei Rafes]] and {{ill|Aleksandr Chemerisky|fr|Aleksander Chemeriskii}} were the main leaders of the party.<ref name="levin"/><ref name="Goldman1960">{{cite book|author-first=Guido G. |author-last=Goldman |title=Zionism Under Soviet Rule, 1917-1928 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eKI9AAAAMAAJ |year=1960 |publisher=Herzl Press |page=45}}</ref><ref name="Schwarz1951">{{cite book|author-first=Solomon M. |author-last=Schwarz |title=The Jews in the Soviet Union |url=https://archive.org/details/jewsinsovietunio0000schw |url-access=registration |year=1951 |publisher=Syracuse University Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/jewsinsovietunio0000schw/page/n119 98]}}</ref>
+Divisions had simmered within the Bund in Ukraine during the fall of 1918.<ref name="Abramson1999">{{cite book|author-first=Henry |author-last=Abramson |title=A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainians and Jews in Revolutionary Times, 1917-1920 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7sZtAAAAMAAJ |year=1999 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-916458-88-1 |page=149}}</ref> At a meeting of the Bund branch in [[Kiev]] on 18 February 1919, held on the eve of the Third All-Ukrainian Conference of the Bund, the majority voted for a motion tabled by Rafes whereby the Kiev branch declared itself the Kiev branch of the Jewish Communist Labour Bund.<ref name="Gitelman2015b"/><ref name="McGeever2019">{{cite book|author-first=Brendan |author-last=McGeever |title=The Bolshevik Response to Antisemitism in the Russian Revolution |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lm-rDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA142 |date=26 September 2019 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-19599-8 |pages=142, 145}}</ref> Rafes' motion obtained 135 votes, against 79 votes for a motion reaffirming the affiliation with international [[social democracy]] and the all-Russian Bund party and 27 abstention. At the end of the vote, the Kiev Bund branch had split into two separate party organizations.<ref name="Gitelman2015b">{{cite book|author-first=Zvi |author-last=Gitelman |title=Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics: The Jewish Sections of the CPSU, 1917-1930 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ufZ9BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA197 |date=8 March 2015 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-6913-8 |pages=174–176}}</ref> The Kiev Bundist newspaper ''[[Folkstsaytung (Kyiv)|Folkstsaytung]]'' became the organ of the ''Kombund'' on 22 February 1919.<ref name="Bar1980">{{cite book|author-first=Arie |author-last=Bar |title=The Jewish Press that was: Accounts, Evaluations, and Memories of Jewish Papers in Pre-Holocaust Europe |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WhxlAAAAMAAJ |year=1980 |publisher=World Federation of Jewish Journalists |page=288}}</ref>  Around the same time a similar split occurred in the [[Ekaterinoslav]] branch of the Bund (with 130 votes to become part a Kombund, against 108 votes against) in March 1919.<ref name="Gitelman2015b"/><ref name="Smith1999">{{cite book|author-first=J. |author-last=Smith |title=The Bolsheviks and the National Question, 1917–23 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pSZ9DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA113 |date=13 January 1999 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |isbn=978-0-230-37737-0 |page=113}}</ref> The [[Poltava]] branch of the Bund voted, almost unanimously, to become part of a Kombund.<ref name="Gitelman2015b"/> In [[Kharkov]] two separate meetings were held, at the latter a majority voted to become a Kombund.<ref name="Gitelman2015b"/>
-[[Moisei Rafes]] was the leader of the party. Rafes had been a leading figure in the Bund in [[Ukraine]].<ref name="levin"/>
+The ''Kombund'' supported Jewish national autonomy.<ref name="levin">{{cite book|author-last=Levin |author-first=Nora |title=The Jews in the Soviet Union Since 1917: Paradox of Survival |publisher=New York University Press |location=New York |year=1990 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Nz0N5GBW6MC |access-date=10 November 2009 |isbn=978-0-8147-5051-3}}</ref><ref name="hist">{{cite book|author-last=Ben-Sasson |author-first=Haim Hillel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2kSovzudhFUC |title=A History of the Jewish People |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |publisher=Harvard University Press |date=1976 |pages=966|isbn=9780674397316 }}</ref><ref name="Pinkus1990">{{cite book|author-first=Benjamin |author-last=Pinkus |title=The Jews of the Soviet Union: The History of a National Minority |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=52Ew77pZsNUC&pg=PA129 |date=26 January 1990 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-38926-6 |page=128}}</ref>  The ''Kombund'' was internally divided on tactics visa-vi the Communist Party.<ref name="McGeever2019"/> The ''Kombund'' wasn't completely committed to the [[Bolshevik]] line as such, but supported the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] side in the [[Russian Civil War]].<ref name="McGeever2019"/><ref>{{cite book|author-last=Wood |author-first=Elizabeth A. |url=https://archive.org/details/performingjustic00wood |title=Performing Justice: Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia |location=Ithaca, N.Y. |publisher=Cornell University Press |date=2005 |pages=261|isbn=9780801442575 }}</ref><ref name="geg">{{cite book|author-last1=Ben-Śaśon |author-first1=Ḥayim Hilel |author-last2=Brenner |author-first2=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3cSytf4nC_4C |title=Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes: von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart |language=de |trans-title=History of the Jewish people: from the beginnings to the present |location=München |publisher=Beck |date=2007 |pages=1186}}</ref>
-Whilst the [[Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union)|Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Ukraine]] (CP(b)U) recognized the need to collaborate with the Ukrainian Kombund, they refused to recognize the Kombund as a communist party. CP(b)U held that the Kombund was a middle class movement and its members were not given responsibilities in different Soviets. Nor did CP(b)U accept that the Kombund merge into the party.<ref name="Gurevitz1980">{{cite book|author=Baruch Gurevitz|title=National Communism in the Soviet Union, 1918-28|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0EjI5CvKH94C&pg=PA31|date=15 September 1980|publisher=University of Pittsburgh Pre|isbn=978-0-8229-7736-0|pages=31}}</ref>
+At the Third Conference of the [[Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union)|Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Ukraine]], held in March 1919, voted to refuse the ''Kombund'' 'group entry' into the party (101 voted to refuse the ''Kombund'' to merge with the party, 96 votes in favour of a merger).<ref name="Gitelman2015b"/> Whilst the CP(b)U recognized the need to collaborate with the Ukrainian Kombund, they refused to recognize the Kombund as a communist party. CP(b)U held that the Kombund was a middle class movement and its members were not given responsibilities in different Soviets.<ref name="Gurevitz1980">{{cite book|author=Baruch Gurevitz|title=National Communism in the Soviet Union, 1918-28|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0EjI5CvKH94C&pg=PA31|date=15 September 1980|publisher=University of Pittsburgh Pre|isbn=978-0-8229-7736-0|pages=31}}</ref> At the local level, the relationship between the Communist Party and the ''Kombund'' was often hostile.<ref name="Gitelman2015b"/>
-In May 1919 ''Kombund'' and the [[United Jewish Communist Party]] merged, forming the [[Ukrainian Communist Union]], '[[Komfarband]]'.<ref name="levin"/><ref name="hist"/><ref name="geg"/><ref>Gilboa, Jehoshua A. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=8RaS7tCRt20C A Language Silenced: The Suppression of Hebrew Literature and Culture in the Soviet Union]. Rutherford [N.J.]: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1982. p. 282</ref>
+In the wake of the [[Hryhoriev Uprising]], the ''Kombund'' was given representation in the [[All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee]].<ref name="McGeever2019"/> In the midst of the peak of pogroms in central and southern Ukraine, unity talks between the ''Kombund'' and the [[United Jewish Communist Party]] (the ''Komfareynikte'') intensified.<ref name="McGeever2019"/><ref name="Goldman1960"/> The [[Yevsektsiya]] (the Jewish section of the Communist Party) oversaw meetings between the two parties.<ref name="McGeever2019"/> In May 1919 the ''Kombund'' held its first party conference in Kiev.<ref name="Stalin1938">{{cite book|author-first=Iosif Vissarionovič |author-last=Stalin |author-link=Joseph Stalin |title=Le marxisme et la question nationale |language=fr |trans-title=Marxism and the national question |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OqlNAQAAIAAJ |year=1938 |publisher=Bureau d'editions |page=7}}</ref> At this conference, on 22 May 1919 the ''Kombund'' and the United Jewish Communist Party merged, forming the [[Jewish Communist Union in Ukraine]] (''Komfarband'').<ref name="McGeever2019"/><ref name="levin"/><ref name="Stalin1938"/><ref name="hist"/><ref name="geg"/><ref>Gilboa, Jehoshua A. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=8RaS7tCRt20C A Language Silenced: The Suppression of Hebrew Literature and Culture in the Soviet Union]. Rutherford [N.J.]: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1982. p. 282</ref><ref name="Browder1968">{{cite book|author-first=Earl |author-last=Browder |title=Communist International |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ArU9AQAAMAAJ |year=1968 |publisher=Greenwood Reprint Corporation |page=80}}</ref>
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+[[Category:Defunct communist parties in Ukraine]]
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+[[Category:Labour parties]]
 [[Category:Political parties of the Russian Revolution]]
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+[[Category:Political parties established in 1919]]
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+[[Category:Secular Jewish culture in Ukraine]]
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v t e Left-wing political parties in Ukraine
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