One Hundred Years of the Bund

Of the two Jewish movements that celebrate their centenaries this year—Zionism and the Bund—the first, founded at a glittering ceremony in Basle, Switzerland, in August 1897, can surely boast of greater historical achievements than its coeval, formed by thirteen representatives of Jewish socialist groups meeting conspiratorially in a small, nondescript house in Vilna two months later.

Zionism’s extraordinary achievements include, first and foremost, the creation of a Jewish state...