General Jewish Labour Bund in Romania

General Jewish Labour Bund. Founded in 1922, shortly after the establishment of Greater Romania, it united Jewish socialists in Bukovina, Bessarabia and the Romanian Old Kingdom. Standing for the lay wing of the Jewish representative movement, the Romanian Bund had atheistic leanings and offered an alternative to the mainstream Jewish organization. Like other Bundist groups, but unlike the Marxist-inspired Poale Zion bodies of Bessarabia, it rejected Zionism

Rădăuţi, Suceava, Siret and Storojineţ.^[1] Soon after the founding of the party, a support organization was founded in the United States, called the Gross Rumänische Arbeiter Liga ("Greater Romanian Workers League").^[1]

Yiddish school movement in Bessarabia,^[4] but was in competition over political support with the Zionists at Poale Zion and the Agudat Yisrael of Haredi Jews.^[3] The Bessarabian branch had also links with the Soviet Communist Party.^[5] Bukovina, the Bund was secondary to the Jewish Autonomist movement led by Benno Straucher and his Jewish National People's Party.^[1][3]

Romanian Social Democratic Party, was defeated by 1,991 votes to 3,800 for Salo Weisselberger. The seat was beforehand occupied by another Social Democrat, George Grigorovici.^[6]

Second World War.^[1]