Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund

Vignettes from the life of a Bundist labor organizer and head of the Warsaw self-defense militia during the interwar period. The book is pretty amazing, largely since it deals with the Bund culture and with the people of the Bund, meaning largely simple workers. Bund during this period was fighting for the embattled Jewish poor, suffering from both economic and ethnic attacks. In fact, it was encouraging them to fight for themselves, organizing them in unions and in self-defense militias. Goldstein does not patronize the people and does not think he knows best. In fact,he clearly considers himself to be one of them.
A large part of the story is Bund's fight against Polish antisemitic right-wing parties, against the government antisemitism, and against the Communists, habitually employing violence to force the workers join their own labor unions. While doing that, the Bund also established numerous cultural and self-help institutions and created a whole union-based culture emphasizing self-respect and self-improvement.
This culture was not sustained, since the population supporting it was emaciated by the Nazis. Still, it is an inspiring example of poor people organizing themselves in very difficult conditions.
While Bund insisted on the right of Jewish workers to cultural autonomy, Goldstein keeps talking in his memoirs about collaboration between Jewish and Polish activists, both in union activism and in fighting the violent right-wing parties. Bund clearly differentiated between its adherence to the value of sustaining cultural uniqueness of the Jewish minority and any sort of ethnicity-based prejudice.
I strongly recommend Goldstein's book, as well as his book of memoirs about the Warsaw Ghetto, where he talks about Bund desperately trying to assist the Jews in an impossible situation.