From the Editors ~ Matti Bunzl and Rachel Havrelock


From the President ~ Jeffrey Shandler


From the Executive Director ~ Rona Sheramy


Street types of New York City: Peddler with cart, c. 1896. Photograph by Elizabeth Alice Austen. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov. Jewish Work ~ Hasia Diner


Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld. Woodcut. Reprinted from Die Bibel in Bildern (Leipzig: Wigand, 1860). Kohelet’s Theory of Labor ~ David Tabb Stewart


Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist, Portrait of a Black Woman, 1800. Oil on Canvas. Paris, Louvre Department of Paintings, inv. 2508. "The Faithful Service": Enslaved Domestic Labor in the Homes of West Indian Sephardim ~ Stanley Mirvis


The Labor of Schnorring ~ Natan Meir


Leaflet urging people to vote for the electoral list of the Bund and of the unions affiliated with it. Courtesy of YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Jewish Labor in Interwar Poland ~ Jack Jacobs


Jews in Radom. Copyright © by Landeshauptstadt München. Reproduced by permission of Stadtarchiv München. The Exploitation of Jewish Labor in Radom (1939–1944) ~ Idit Gil


Meyer London and car strikers speaking to crowd from a balcony, July 15, 1916. Photograph published by Bain News Service. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov. Jews, Labor, and Local Politics in New York City ~ Daniel Soyer


The Jarmulowksy Bank, corner of Orchard and Canal Streets, New York City, 1912. Reprinted from “Building for S. Jarmulowksy,” Architects & Builders Magazine XLIV (November 1912): 447. A Tale of Two Buildings: Sender Jarmulowsky's Bank, the Forward Building, and the Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism ~ Rebecca Kobrin


Will Herberg speaking at a University of Illinois YMCA board-cabinet retreat in 1958. Photograph by University YMCA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Will Herberg on God and Socialism ~ Tony Michels


Committee of the Bund Organization in New York, 1950s. Emanuel Scherer is seated fourth from the left. Courtesy of YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. A Party of Naysayers: The Jewish Labor Bund after the Holocaust ~ David Slucki


Intellectuals, Socialists, Capitalists, and Binationalism in Mandate Palestine ~ Joel Beinin


Meeting in Ramat Gan park. Photograph by Anna Lim. Between Markets and Morals of Care: Migrant Care Workers in Israel ~ Adriana Kemp


Artwork Featured in The Labor Issue ~ Jan Tichy