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4 unusual facts about Bund


Bund: Gemeinschaft für ein sozialistisches Leben

They are considered important by the Holocaust museum for illuminating the range of possibilities affecting German Jews before WWII.

Deutscher Hockey-Bund

The body is built by the club which are organised in subdivisions on the level of the Bundesländer.

General Jewish Labour Bund in Poland

As a result the Polish Bund was divided, with around a quarter of the Polish Bund leaving the party to form the Communist Bund in 1922 (which subsequently merged into the Communist Party in 1923).

John William Willis-Bund

Willis-Bund married secondly (in 1896) Mary Elizabeth Thackeray, the daughter of General Frederick Rennell Thackeray and Lady Elizabeth Margaret Carnegie (the daughter of the 7th Earl of Northesk).


Alvand

Alvand is newer form of *Harvant, (from Indo-European > Indo-Iranian root of *har), means "high", and vanta (akin to German "bund" and English bond, Persian and Kurdish "band," meaning "connected to" or "that of," "bound to" etc.

Brandenburg football championship

From 1903 to 1911, the Märkischer Fußball-Bund, named after the Mittelmark, existed in parallel with the Verband Berliner Ballspielvereine and both sent their champions to the German football championship.

Bund Bull

The Shanghai Bull, the Bund Financial Bull or the Bund Bull are monikers associated with a derivative of Arturo Di Modica's Charging Bull installed in late April 2010 and unveiled on The Bund in Shanghai on May 15, 2010.

Central Committee of Polish Jews

Accordingly: six seats were given to Jewish communists (the Jewish faction of the Polish Workers' Party), four seats to Bund representatives, four seats to Ihud, three seats to Poale Zion Left (leftist faction of Workers of Zion), three to Poale Zion Right, and one place to Hashomer Hatzair.

David Pinski

In this tragedy, various Jews—a religious zealot, a socialist from the Bund, a Zionist, and a disillusioned assimilationist—resist the onslaught in different ways, and for different ideologies, but they all resist.

Der Emes

And of course there was encounter with other Jewish ideological rivals (the Bund, Zionism etc.), which offered their ways to solve the Jewish question.

Deutscher Cricket Bund

Deutscher Cricket Bund is Germany's representative at the International Cricket Council and is an associate member since 1999, having previously been an affiliate member of the ICC from 1991.

Ellen Meiksins Wood

Wood was born Ellen Meiksins one year after her parents, Latvian Jews active in the Bund, arrived in New York from Europe as political refugees.

Enamakkal Lake

On western side of the lake, it is protected by a bund which was the brain child of Sakthan Thampuran.

General Jewish Labour Bund in Latvia

After World War I, the Latvian Bund sent a representative, Raphael Abramovitch, to the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Menshevik) delegation at the founding Vienna conference of the International Working Union of Socialist Parties in 1921, where he was particularly active in association with the Menshevik leader Julius Martov.

Global Marshall Plan Initiative

Supporters of the initiative include Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Hubert Weinzierl (BUND), Rita Süssmuth, Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Franz Josef Radermacher, Jakob von Uexküll, Ulrich Martin Drescher, Renée Ernst, Sandra Maischberger (all from Germany), Josef Riegler, Franz Fischler (Austria), Prince El Hassan bin Talal (Jordan), Vandana Shiva (India), Jane Goodall (UK) and approximately 5000 supporters from Germany and Austria.

Gottfried August Bürger

Meanwhile he kept in touch with his Göttingen friends, and when the Göttinger Bund or "Hain" ("Göttinger Hainbund") was formed, Bürger, though not himself a member, kept in close touch with it.

Heinrich Böll Foundation

The Meat Atlas is an annual report on meat consumption and the meat industry published in cooperation with BUND, Friends of the Earth and Le Monde diplomatique.

History of antisemitism in the United States

Some 20,000 people heard Bund leader Fritz Julius Kuhn criticize President Franklin D. Roosevelt by repeatedly referring to him as “Frank D. Rosenfeld”, calling his New Deal the "Jew Deal", and espousing his belief in the existence of a Bolshevik-Jewish conspiracy in America.

Ice hockey in Germany

The Oberliga was replaced 1958 by the reintroduced Ice Hockey Bundesliga, before 1963 the Deutsche Eishockey-Bund was created, which remained under the umbrella of the Deutschen Eissport-Verbandes.

Jewish Combat Organization

There are still remnants of the non-Zionist Jewish Labour Bund's S.K.I.F. in Australia, United Kingdom, France and United States.

M on the Bund

Notable guests that have dined at M on the Bund include Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, supermodel Tyra Banks, the Ferragamo family, the United Kingdom's Prince Edward, media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, the queen of Thailand and prince of Holland.

Michal Shuldenfrei

In 1944, after the entry of the Soviet Army into Poland, and the establishment of the Lublin Committee he tried to reorganize the Bund, despite the fact that its pre war leaders, like Victor Alter and Henryk Ehrlich had been executed on Stalin's orders.

Once Upon a Time in Shanghai

Shanghai Grand, a 1996 Hong Kong film based on the same story in The Bund.

Tank Bund Road, Hyderabad

The Pakistan Patton tank, now an attraction for visitors to the Tank Bund Road, is a War Trophy given to the 54th Infantry Division, and is one that the Indian Army had disabled during the Battle of Basantar in Pakistan, between December 15-17, 1971.

This lower Tank Bund road is heralded by the famous and very popular Katta Maisamma temple, the sprawling green Indira Park, Bharat Sevashram Sangha was established in 1917 by the Illustrious patriot saint Yugacharya Srimat Swami Pranavanandaji Maharaj in Bajitpur village in Bangladesh, here in Hyderabad came to being in 1956 at Domalguda.

Taxation in Germany

Taxes in Germany—as it is a federal republic—are levied by the federal government (Bund), the states (Länder) as well as the municipalities (Städte/Gemeinden).

The Bund

At the northern end of The Bund, along the riverfront, is Huangpu Park, in which is situated the Monument to the People's Heroes - a tall, abstract concrete tower which is a memorial for the those who died during the revolutionary struggle of Shanghai dating back to the First Opium War.

Asia Building (No. 1, The Bund), originally the McBain Building, housed the Shanghai offices of Royal Dutch Shell and Asiatic Petroleum Company.

Victor Alter

Victor Alter (also Wiktor Alter; February 7, 1890 – February 17, 1943) was a Jewish socialist activist and publicist of the Bund, and a member of the executive committee of the Second International.

Willys baronets

John Walpole Willis and his descendants (some of whom became Willis-Bund, e.g. John William Willis-Bund) descended from this family through his grandfather Joseph Willis of Wakefield, Yorkshire .


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