In 1902, about a third of the people detained in Siberian prison camps were members of this organization. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this organization of Socialist Jews established in Vilnius in 1897.
ANSWER: The Bund [or Jewish Bund; or General Union of Jewish Workers in Lithuania, Poland, and Russia; or Vseobshchy Yevreysky Rabochiy Soyuz v Litve, Polishe, i Rossii]
[10m] The Bund had an elaborate network for smuggling materials in and out of this location. The shtetls in this region were generally the only place Jews were allowed to live in the Russian empire in the 19th century.
ANSWER: Pale of Settlement [or chertá osédlosti; or t’ẖum hammosháv]
[10e] In Poland between the World Wars, the Bund fought to end the policy of “ghetto benches” that segregated Jews at these institutions. Anti-Jewish quotas at elite examples of these institutions in the US pushed many New York Jews to CUNY (“KYOO-nee”).
ANSWER: universities [or colleges; prompt on schools]
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