Group photo with six other people on the grass,likely in a park. Verso inscription written in pencil reads Rochel Korn, Munich 1946, along with numbers 83-040-7 and 5699-6. The smaller photo, record 25683 states May 1, 1937 as the date of the photo
Group photo with six other people on the grass,likely in a park. Verso inscription written in pencil reads May 1, 1937 Left Bundist Group and the number 85-267B-22. There is also an unknown word written in another language.
Born in Wolkowysk, Poland. Received a good Jewish and secular education. Attended a yeshiva and studied humanities at the Vilna University. Grossman was a teacher in secular Jewish schools in Vilna and active in the Bund. After Russia occupied Lithuania in 1940 and many Bundist activists were arrested, Grossman left Vilna. He arried in Canada in 1941 after spending some time in Japan. In Montreal Grossman was active in Bund, Workmen's Circle, YIVO, Jewish Public Library, the Reisen School where he was principal. Most of all he was active in the Yiddish Committee, whose Bulletin he wrote and published for many years. Grossman wrote essays and articles in the Keneder Adler and in several Yiddish journals. He published two books of essays and monographs. Jacob Grossman died on March 31, 1982 in Miami.
The fonds consists primarily of material related to the Bund's Third World Conference and the Jewish Labour Committee Montreal Division.
Materials include:
File 001: Clippings
File 002: Pre-Conference Correspondence and Delegate List, 1955
File 003: Post-Conference Correspondence, 1955
File 004: P…
The fonds consists primarily of material related to the Bund's Third World Conference and the Jewish Labour Committee Montreal Division.
Materials include:
File 001: Clippings
File 002: Pre-Conference Correspondence and Delegate List, 1955
File 003: Post-Conference Correspondence, 1955
File 004: Post-Conference Correspondence, 1955
File 005: Post-Conference Correspondence, 1955
File 006: Membership List
File 007: Executive de l'association des socialists juifs "Bund" 1967
File 008: Meetings 1964-1965
File 009: Bund Papers, 1963
File 010: Varia
Date
1949-1967
Fonds No.
1194
Storage Location
JPL
History Biographical
The Jewish Labour Bund, formed in 1897, was an influential political organization and labour union throughout the 20th century. It played a role in the formation of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and was influential in interwar Poland. The Bundist movement travelled with Jewish immigrants, influencing social movements around the world.
In 1955 the The Jewish Labour Bund held the Third World Conference in Montreal.
https://yivo.org/cimages/bund_120_post-pub_final.pdf
"Memorial meeting on the 24th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising... Wednesday April 9th, 1967 at the YM-YWHA... Chaim Bass... Grace MacInnis, M.P., ... M. Rubenstein... Jewish Labour Committee, Unions and Societies, Workmen's Circle, Jew. Soc. Org. "Bund"."