The Yiddish Book Center's
Wexler Oral History Project
A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.
The Bund, Jewish Communists, and Australian Politics
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David and Ben Burstin – sons of Bundist Sender Burstin – talk about the Bund in Australia. They describe the conflict between Bundists and Communists and how they fought over control of the Kadimah Jewish cultural center. They also talk about how Bundism and Communism played into the Australian Labour paty.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with David Burstin and Ben Burstin.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
David Burstin was born in 1937.
Ben Burstin was born in 1931.
