Palestine beyond national frames: Emerging politics, cultures, and claims

“Forty years ago we fought not only for our lives. We fought for life in dignity and freedom” (Edelman quoted in Krall 1977: 122). These were the words of Marek Edelman, one of the leaders of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising, in his recollection of the events around the revolt. It was the first and most prominent action of armed urban resistance
to the Germans during the Second World War. Edelman was a member of the Bund, a secular Jewish labor socialist movement, and an anti-Zionist who also later fought in the general Warsaw uprising of 1944 to liberate the city from the Nazis.