Jewish Radicals : : A Documentary Reader / / ed. by Tony Michels.

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• MitwirkendeR: Ausubel, Nathan,; Baldwin, Roger,; Berkman, Alexander,; Bernick, Isadore,; Bisno, Abraham,; Bittelman, Alexander,; Bourne, Randolph,; Browder, Earl,; Burgin, Herts,; Cahan, Abraham,; Cohen, Jennie,; Crosswaith, Frank,; Darcy, Sam,; Davis, Phillip,; Edelshtat, Dovid,; Faynman, A.,; Folkstsaytung, Di Nyu-Yorker Yidishe,; Frayhayt, Di Morgn,; Garrison Villard, Oswald,; Glass, N.,; Glotzer, Albert,; Goldman, Emma,; Granich, Max,; Hardman, J. B. S.,; Jacobs, Paul,; Kemfer, Der Yidisher,; Khanin, Nokhum,; Mandel, Ernest,; Maryson, Katherina,; Michel, Louis,; Michels, Tony,; Milch, Jacob,; Newman, Pauline,; Olgin, Moissaye J.,; Pastor Stokes, Rose,; Richards, Bernard G.,; Robins Lang, Lucy,; Sherman, Bezalel,; Sheyfer, B.,; Shiplacoff, Abraham,; Sinclair, Upton,; Tsaytung, Di Arbeter,; Van Etten, Ida,; Vaynshteyn, Bernard,; Waldman, Louis,; Weiss, Samuel,; Wisotsky, Isadore,
• HerausgeberIn: Michels, Tony,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History ; 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Jewish Radicals explores the intertwined histories of Jews and the American Left through a rich variety of primary documents. Written in English and Yiddish, these documents reflect the entire spectrum of radical opinion, from anarchism to social democracy, Communism to socialist-Zionism. Rank-and-file activists, organizational leaders, intellectuals, and commentators, from within the Jewish community and beyond, all have their say. Their stories crisscross the Atlantic, spanning from the United States to Europe and British-ruled Palestine.The documents illuminate in fascinating detail the efforts of large numbers of Jews to refashion themselves as they confronted major problems of the twentieth century: poverty, anti-semitism, the meaning of American national identity, war, and totalitarianism. In this comprehensive sourcebook, the story of Jewish radicals over seven decades is told for the first time in their own words.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I : AWAKENINGS -- 1. “When I Went Home I Was Aflame” (memoir; c. 1925) -- 2. “I Saw a New World Opening Before Me” (memoir; 1931) -- 3. The World of Socialism and Revolution (memoir; 1963) -- 4. “Rebellion Raged within Me” (memoir; 1948) -- 5. “It Wasn’t Difficult for Me to Reject Judaism” (memoir; 1965) -- PART II : INSTRUGGLE -- 6. “Strong, Firm, and Correct Propaganda” (1886) -- 7. “Socialism Is Not a Dream” (1888) -- 8. The Birth of the Knee-Pants Makers’ Union (memoir; 1924) -- 9. “The Whole City Seethed” (1892) -- 10. Working Women Unite (1893–1894) -- 11. The Attempted Assassination of Henry Clay Frick (memoir; 1912) -- 12. The Prophet Karl Marx (c. 1910s) -- 13. “Our Mecca” (memoir; n.d.) -- 14. “The Right to Control Birth” (1916) -- 15. A Personal and Confidential Letter to Louis Marshall (1917 -- 16 Gangsters and Socialists on Election Day (memoir; 1944) -- 17. “If I Were a Colored Man What Would I Do?” (1919) -- 18. The Meaning of Labor Day (1921) -- 19. An Encounter with a Klansman (memoir; n.d.) -- 20. Communist “Criminals” in Los Angeles (1929) -- 21. “Unions with Brains” (1930) -- 22. In Defense of the Kentucky Miners (1932) -- 23. “The Obligations of Youth Today” (1932) -- 24 .“Some Vital Problems of Negro Labor” (1935) -- 25. “Charlatans and Gangsters and Pompous Racketeers” (1938) -- 26. “With Nazism We All Are at War” (1942) -- PART III : LIFE OF THE MIND -- 27. “Their Intense Desire to Study” (1893) -- 28. The Power of Speech and Education (1893) -- 29. “For That, We Found Time” (interview; 1965) -- 30. A Lower East Side Vacation (1903) -- 31. “Jewish Working People . . . Have Lost All Interest in the Synagogue” (1905) -- 32. “Peripatetic Philosophers” (1910) -- 33. Yiddish Lectures in Philadelphia (1916) -- 34. “A Language That He Wants to and Must Forget” (1918) -- 35. “America’s Most Interesting Daily” (1922) -- 36. “The Strongest Weapons in the Hands of Jewish Workers” (1924) -- 37. The Aims of Workers’ Education (1926) -- 38. Sexual Relations from a Communist Standpoint (1928) -- 39. “Sow the Field of Yiddish Cultural Tradition” (1939) -- 40. “The Responsibility of English-Speaking Jewish Intellectuals” (1946) -- PART IV: THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION -- 41. In Honor of Red Sunday (1906) -- 42. Leon Trotsky on Second Avenue (memoir; 1944) -- 43. “These Glad Days of Russian Freedom” (1917) -- 44. New York Socialists Contribute to Chaos in Russia (1917) -- 45 “The New Man” (1921) -- 46. Communism and Freedom of Speech (1925) -- 47. A Revolutionary Returns (1929) -- 48. Building Communism in the Ukraine (interview; 1981–1982) -- 49. “G.P.U. Intrigues in America” (1938) -- 50. Fighting Stalinists and Chasing Girls (memoir; 1965) -- 51. The Murder of Ehrlich and Alter (1943) -- 52. The Soviet Union Reappraised (1956) -- PART V: THE QUESTION OF ZIONISM -- 53. “The Whole Thing Is Ridiculous” (1906) -- 54. “The Jewish Militant” (1906) -- 55. Zionism and Transnationalism (1916) -- 56. “Should We Change Our Stance toward Zionism?” (1918) -- 57. “The Pogroms in Palestine” (1929) -- 58. A Revolt of the Oppressed Arab Masses (1929) -- 59. “Jew and Arab” (1934) -- 60. “Give Up the Illusion of Building a Jewish Homeland” (1936) -- 61. Jewish Upbuilding Is Revolutionizing Palestine (1939) -- 62. “The Jewish Problem Will Be Solved as Soon as the Jews Again Become a Normal Nation” (1943) -- 63. The Final Emancipation of the Jews Is the Struggle for Socialism (1946) -- 64. Jewish National Aspirations Are Not a Violation of Marxist Principles (1947) -- 65. Israel and the World Struggle for Peace and Democracy (1948) -- Recommended Reading on Jewish Radicals -- Index -- About the Editor