The Emergence of Modern Jewish Politics: Bundism and Zionism in Eastern Europe - Paperbackby Zvi Gitelman (Author) The Emergence of Modern Jewish Politics examines the political, social, and cultural dimensions of Zionism and Bundism, the two major political movements among East European Jews during the first half of the twentieth century. While Zionism achieved its primary aim the founding of a Jewish state the Jewish Labor Bund has not only practically disappeared, but its ideals of socialism and secular Jewishness based in the diaspora