Yiddish revolutionaries in migration : : the transnational history of the Jewish Labour Bund / / by Frank Wolff ; translated by Loren Balhorn, Jan-Peter Herrmann.

"This ground-breaking history of the General Jewish Labour Bund in migration investigates how the organisation transformed itself from a revolutionary protagonist in early twentieth-century Russia to a socialist institution of secular Jewish life and yidishkayt for Jews in North and South Ameri...

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Superior document:Historical materialism book series ; Volume 226
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Historical materialism book series ; Volume 226.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xix, 512 pages) :; illustrations.
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Summary:"This ground-breaking history of the General Jewish Labour Bund in migration investigates how the organisation transformed itself from a revolutionary protagonist in early twentieth-century Russia to a socialist institution of secular Jewish life and yidishkayt for Jews in North and South America. By following thousands of activists' paths from the shtetls of Eastern Europe to the working-class Yiddish neighbourhoods of New York and Buenos Aires, Frank Wolff traces the networks that connected these revolutionaries on both sides of the Atlantic, resulting in a richly detailed social history of this seminal transnational movement"--
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:900432139X
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: by Frank Wolff ; translated by Loren Balhorn, Jan-Peter Herrmann.