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Of Moses And Marx »

Authors: David P. Shuldiner, Paul Buhle
ISBN-13: 9780897896177, ISBN-10: 0897896173
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: June 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: David P. Shuldiner

DAVID P. SHULDINER holds appointments as Humanities Program Coordinator with the State of Connecticut, Department of Social Services, Elderly Services Division, as Adjunct Faculty in the School of Family Studies, University of Connecticut, and in the Gerontology Program at St. Joseph College, and has taught folklore at Trinity College.

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Examines the beliefs and rituals of the Jewish Labor Movement in the United States not simply as emblems of ethnic identity, but as forms of expressive behavior.

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	When Moses Met Marx: Aspects of Jewish Radical Folk Ideology	13
Ch. 2	Folk Ideology and Folk History: Reading Writings about the Jewish Labor Movement	27
Ch. 3	Matters of Belief: Secularized Judaism and Spiritualized Radicalism	53
Ch. 4	"A Story in Itself": Personal Narrative and Folk Ideology	79
Ch. 5	Folklore and Folk Ideology: Political Expression in Traditional Forms	93
Ch. 6	The "Third" Seder of Passover: Liberating a Ritual of Liberation	119
	Conclusion	141
App. A	The Jewish Labor Movement in Los Angeles	147
App. B	A Bund Haggadah	155
App. C	A "Third" Seder: Passover	165
App. D	Hollywood Kindershule Pesach Hagadah	189
	Notes	197
	Bibliography	227
	Index	241

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Of Moses And Marx »

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