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TheVilna Group was a circle ofJewish Social-Democrats which met secretly in the city of Vilna, then part of theRussian empire (nowVilnius in Lithuania).
The group was founded in the mid-1890s. Its members devoted themselves to disseminatingMarxist and socialist literature to Jewish textile workers and to some extent to Jewish and non-Jewish workers generally, providing literacy and education classes for workers and supporting the formation of trade unions. They were among the first to produce socialist literature inYiddish.[1] All this was illegal and had to be done clandestinely, and all members of the Vilna Group were arrested at various points.
This group was one of the forerunners of the General Union of Jewish Workers of Lithuania, Poland and Russia (known as the "Bund"), founded on October 7, 1897.[2]
The Vilna group included, among others:
It was one of the precursors of theGeneral Jewish Workers' Association in Lithuania, Poland, and Russia (known as the 'Bund'), founded in 1897.[5] The Vilna Group also played a role in founding theRussian Social-Democratic Workers' Party (RSDRP) in 1898.[6][better source needed] Most veterans of the Vilna Group later supported theMensheviks.[5]
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