The IJLB is composed by local Bundist groups around the world and was originally created to defend Jewish national-cultural rights in Eastern Europe.
[3] Before World War Two, the Bund contributed heavily to the modernization of Jewish life as well as promoting the idea that Jews were not bound to a territory and instead were connected through history, language and culture.
However, the organization was slowly re-established by Bundists who escaped and survived World War Two as the International Jewish Labor Bund.
After 1947, Bund organizations were developed in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, England, Tel-Aviv, Haifa, Batyam, Beersheba, Natanya, Tiberias, Ashkelon, Kfar Yavne, Ramat-Hasharon, Kiryat-gat, Ramla, Melbourne, Sydney, Johannesburg, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Mexico City, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Miami, and Paterson.
[4] In 1997 commemorative events were organized to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Bund in New York City, London, Warsaw, Paris, and Brussels, where the chairwoman of the Belgian chapter, herself 100 years old, was present.
[5] After Israel was established in 1948, a Bund Conference was held where they rejected the creation and instead called for a Binational Jewish Arab state in Palestine.
The Bund placed their faith in a socialist revolution where the goal was to liberate all of humankind from political, economical and national oppression including anti-semitism.
Before and after WWII, New York City had become America's epicenter of Yiddish life due to the immigration of Polish Jews, who made housing cooperatives, radio stations, and newspapers.
[9][10] Despite the organization being relatively small, compared to other socialist movements of the time, such as the Workmen's Circle, it had multiple branches across North America, in cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Miami, Toronto, and Montreal.
Furthermore, it hosted Jewish Holiday celebrations and Holocaust commemorations, had a Bundist summer camp called Hemshekh (Continuity), and wrote on various Yiddish newspapers and publications, such as Unzer Tsayt.
[11] Presidents General secretaries Executive of the World Coordinating Committee in 1957: David Meier, Abraham Stolar, Emanuel Sherer, Emmanuel Novogrodski, Benjamin Tabatchinski, Pinchas Schwartz, Leon Oler, Alexander Erlich, J.S.
Hertz, Joseph Gutgold, Hershel Himelfarb, Baruch Shefner Members of the World Coordinating Committee 1957: Peretz Guterman, F. Shrager, Leon Stern (all three from France), Meyer Treibeer, Berl Fuchs (both from Brazil), Berl Rosner (England), Tschechanowski (Belgium), Shimon Yezher, Tuvie Meisel (both from Mexico), Kowalsman (Uruguay), Alexander Mints, Dr. M. Peretz (both from Argentina), S. M. Oshry, M. L. Polin, Ch.
S. Kasdan, Motl Zelmanowicz (all from US), Artur Lermer, Manie Reinhartz (both from Canada), Paul Olberg (Sweden), Bunem Wiener, Mendel Kosher, Jacob Waks (all three from Australia), Bentzl Zalwitz, Pesach Burshin, Israel Artuski (all three from Israel) Bund groups continue to meet in the United Kingdom (Jewish Socialists' Group[17]), France (Centre Medem – Arbeiter Ring and Club laïque de l'Enfance juive, CLEJ [fr]),[18] Denmark, Canada, USA, Australia (Jewish Labour Bund and S.K.I.F.
[20] Several publishing houses associated with the International Jewish Labor Bund have been established globally, collectively producing 50 volumes printed in Yiddish.
A year later, in 1958, the Parisian sector of the Bund published a brochure, Bundishe fraye tribune, which attacked members and ideologies from the World Coordinating Committee.
The most notable argument was by Ralphal Ryba, who claimed that World Coordinating Committee was empty rhetoric and never followed through on its commitments to its people and local Bundist organizations.