Jewish Labor Bund groups are springing up throughout the United States and Europe.

Until recently, this was a phrase you could only have found in a primary historical document, perhaps a newspaper in 1905. The Jewish Labor Bund, once a collection of anti-Zionist, democratic socialist organizations largely concentrated in Eastern Europe, was all but destroyed by the Holocaust and postwar Stalinist repression. The group's message, language, passion, and very existence seemed to have been swept into the trash can of history.

But today, the Bund is in fact growing. New chapters have formed in several cities in the United States, alongside several in Europe. Yiddish is even making a small comeback as new Bundists immerse themselves in the language of their ancestors and family history. Political values long considered antiquated and taboo have returned with a thunderous resonance, especially as the conditions of our modern world raise new questions of identity and class. Where the Bund has long been regarded as a historical artifact, it's now reasserting itself as a living tradition.