Author, Associate Professor @Monash_Arts, Nudnik. My recent book, Sing This at My Funeral: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons is now available thanks to @WSUPress.
Oct 19, 2018 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I have many issues with the characterization of the Bund's history, and its attraction to Jews today. I don't normally weigh in on these things, but here goes. My first Twitter thread.
First, framing the story around Ben Gurion's attitudes towards the Bund strikes me as bizarre and irrelevant. It gives no agency to the actual Bundists that lived in that time and place. And it reduces the Bund's central concern to its conflict with Zionists
