Dina Blond as a Second-Generation Activist in the Bund
Dina Blond as a Second-Generation Activist in the Bund

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the figure of Dina Blond, née Shayne Feygl Szapiro (Szapiro-Michalewicz after marriage to Beinish Michalewicz), one of the most prominent activists of the Bund in interwar Poland. Blond was the chairwoman of the Bundist women’s section established in the mid-1920s, and played a major role in the party; her contribution to the political mobilization of its female members was significant.She was a translator, writer and editor of Froyen-Vinkl, the women’s page of the party newspaper Naye Folkstsaytung. She belonged to the avant-garde of the Bundist intellectual elite. The article discusses Blond’s biography in a broader generational context, as an exemplification of the second-generation Bundist. The paper is based on sources in Yiddish: selected journalistic texts she authored (including the agitational booklet “Shvester mayne…” and radio readings from her post-war radio programme).

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