The 2026 World Cup is going to be an extraordinary spectacle. Perhaps for the football, but certainly for its political and cultural contest. Although co-hosted with Mexico and Canada, the United States will be the dominant player, and President Trump has his fingers all over it. It's going to be a mirror of America and much of the world. This short course of lectures is the essential warm up to take it on.

This course explores the Bund (short for the General Jewish Labour Bund), a remarkable political movement that few people have heard of, though it was once one of the most important forces in Jewish life, reaching its height in Poland between the two World Wars. Though the Bund was largely destroyed by Nazi Germany and suppressed by the Soviet Union, its absence from contemporary consciousness has another cause: the movement's principled opposition to Zionism. In this course, we'll recover that lost history.