Tsukunft or Cukunft or Zukunft (צוקונפֿט,

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for ''future'') was the youth organization of the General Jewish Labor Union (or Bund). It was founded in 1910, and in 1916 it was officially called ''Yugnt-Bund Tsukunft''. Their newspaper was the ''Yugnt veker''. In 1921 ''Tsukunft'' suffered a split, in which a pro-Communist group broke away and formed ''

Komtsukunft ''Komtsukunft'' ( yi, קאָמצוקונפֿט, pl, Komunistyczna Organizacja Młodzieży Cukunft) was a Jewish communist youth organization in Poland in the early 1920s. It was the youth wing of the Jewish Communist Labour Bund in Poland. Th ...

''. ''Tsukunft'' had applied for membership in the Communist Youth International two weeks after the Bund had applied for membership in the

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, but the second congress of the Communist Youth International had adopted criteria that were not acceptable for ''Tsukunft''.
Bundist Counterculture in Interwar Poland
'. Syracuse, N.Y: Syracuse University Press, 2009. pp. 9–10 In 1922 the organization changed its name to ''Yugnt-bund "Tsukunft" in poyln'' ('Youth Bund "Tsukunft" in Poland'). By 1924 only seventy active local groups remained in ''Tsukunft''. However, by 1928 it had grown to 171 local groups. At the time of the sixth ''Tsukunft'' conference in 1936 (the last before the outbreak of the

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), the organization counted with 184 local groups. On the eve of the Second World War, the organization had 15,000 members.Yitzhak Zuckerman, Barbara Harshav, "A surplus of memory: chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Part 804", University of California Press, 1993, pg. 434

/ref> The Tsukunft took part in the

Warsaw ghetto uprising The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; pl, powstanie w getcie warszawskim; german: link=no, Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Nazi Germany' ...

as part of the

Jewish Fighting Organization The Jewish Combat Organization ( pl, Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa, ŻOB; yi, ''Yidishe Kamf Organizatsie''; often translated to English as the Jewish Fighting Organization) was a World War II resistance movement in occupied Poland, which wa ...

. Tsukunft was revived in Poland after the war. At the time it was technically a part of the Polish socialist youth organization OMTUR.''The Jewish Labor Bund Bulletin'', Vol II, No 16-17, April–May, 1949. p. 4

References

*J. Sh. Herts: ''Di geshikhte vun a jugent''. Unser Tsait, New York, 1946.

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