Poster with light background color and printed in black ink. In Yiddish.

Lecture poster: “Jewish Socialist Parties”

Vilna, Poland, 1919. Poster promoting a lecture.

Poster promoting a Vilna Bund Committee Meeting on April 2nd, 1919, in Vilna, Poland, about Jewish Socialist Parties (Bund, United, Poalei Zion, and Communist Union), followed by a debate. The lecture featured a speech by A. Litvak, a Bundist activist and writer in Eastern Europe and later the U.S., and a member of the Bund, one of the discussed parties, and one of the largest political groups among Polish Jews. It represented a diverse coalition of Jewish people with shared interests in trade unionism, anti-Zionism, and cultural promotion of Yiddish, and was particularly active and popular in urban centers, like Vilna. Full translation below:

Vilna Committee of the Bund

City Auditorium

Wednesday, April 2nd, 1919

Member of the Central Committee of the Bund

Comrade A. LITVAK

Will give a LECTURE

ABOUT THE JEWISH

SOCIALIST PARTIES

Bund, United Jewish Socialists, Poalei Tsion, Communist Association

AFTER THE LECTURE–DEBATE

Digitization of this artifact has been made possible by the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project.