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