Doikeyt: Living Here and Now

In contrast to the Zionist parties, who urged Jews to emigrate to Palestine, the Bund took up the call for Doikeyt—living here and now. The critical problems of the Jews in interwar Poland needed to be resolved, not by escaping from the hard realities of everyday life, but by addressing them, here and now, via political and cultural activism.

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  Celebration for 30th anniversary of the Bund, Warsaw, 1927   Tsukunft Self-Defense Group, May Day, Warsaw, 1930s   Children of the World, Vilna, 1940  

Yiddish school notebook, Vilna, 1928-1929

  Children at the Medem Sanatorium in Miedzeszyn, near Warsaw, ca. 1930   Morgenstern sports club, Skalka,
Poland, late 1920s
  Bikhervelt (The World of Books), January, 1929   Members of Tsukunft, 1931