Authors: Ezra Mendelsohn
ISBN-13: 9780814755709, ISBN-10: 0814755704
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: New York University Press
Date Published: June 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Ezra Mendelsohn is Professor at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and Lerner Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies at Duke University. He is the author of four books on modern Jewish history, including On Modern Jewish Politics, and co-editor of Studies in Contemporary Jewry.
Historically leftist ideas and theories have had a profound impact on modern Jewish life. But, the left's impact on the Jewish community has greatly diminished today. Nonetheless, it can still be detected in the tendency of American Jews to vote for the liberal camp. This political tendency has also influenced Jewish communities actions as illustrated by the large numbers of Jews who participated in the civil rights movements of the post-World War II period and in the so-called new Left.
Essential Papers on Jews and the Left presents a sweeping portrait of the defining impact of the left on modern Jewish politics and culture in Europe, Palestine/Israel, and the New World. The contributions in the first part, entitled The Jewish Left, discuss specifically Jewish radical organizations such as the Bund and Poale Zion. The second section, Jews inthe Left, explores the activities of Jews in general leftwing politics, emphasizing their role in the Russian revolutionary movement. In the final section, The Left and the Jews, the essays examine the attitudes of the left in Europe and America toward the Jewish question, including the key issue of Karl Marx and his reputedly anti-Jewish attitudes.
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | The Life and Opinions of Moses Hess | 21 |
2 | The Roots of "Jewish Socialism" (1881-1892): From "Populism" to "Cosmopolitanism"? | 58 |
3 | Regional Factors in the Formation of the Jewish Labor Movement in Czarist Russia | 78 |
4 | The Reassessment of the National Question | 101 |
5 | Ber Borokhov | 122 |
6 | Social and Intellectual Origins of the Hashomer Hatzair Youth Movement, 1913-1920 | 145 |
7 | The Bund in Polish Political Lite, 1935-1939 | 166 |
8 | Political Mobilization and Institution Building in the Yishuv | 198 |
9 | "Black Night - White Snow": Attitudes of the Palestinian Labor Movement to the Russian Revolution, 1917-1929 | 236 |
10 | A Grandson of the Haskalah | 275 |
11 | The Role of the Jews in the Russian Revolutionary Movement | 300 |
12 | The Ties that Bind: Jewish Support for the Left in the United States | 322 |
13 | Was Marx an Anti-Semite? | 361 |
14 | Marx and Jewish Emancipation | 402 |
15 | "Black Repartition" and the Pogroms of 1881-1882 | 410 |
16 | The Soviet Regime and Anti-Zionism: An Analysis | 440 |
17 | Karl Kautsky: Between Baden and Luxemburg | 483 |
Select Bibliography | 529 | |
Index | 531 |