| Author | : Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 339 |
| Release | : 2010-08-31 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0300168608 |
The grandson of a Jew, whose Jewish relatives converted to Christianity, whose allies played down his Jewish origins just as fervently as his enemies played them up, V.I. Lenin makes for a fascinating case study of the many complexities associated with 'Jewish question' in Russia.
| Author | : Brendan McGeever |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2019-09-26 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1107195993 |
The first book-length analysis of how the Bolsheviks responded to antisemitism during the Russian Revolution.
| Author | : Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 23 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Jewish nationalism |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Abraham 1920- Léon |
| Publisher | : Hassell Street Press |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2021-09-09 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781014236173 |
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| Author | : Jack Jacobs |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 389 |
| Release | : 2017-03-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108107575 |
The relationships, past and present, between Jews and the political left remain of abiding interest to both the academic community and the public. Jews and Leftist Politics contains new and insightful chapters from world-renowned scholars and considers such matters as the political implications of Judaism; the relationships of leftists and Jews; the histories of Jews on the left in Europe, the United States, and Israel; contemporary anti-Zionism; the associations between specific Jews and Communist parties; and the importance of gendered perspectives. It also contains fresh studies of canonical figures, including Gershom Scholem, Gustav Landauer, and Martin Buber, and examines the affiliations of Jews to prominent institutions, calling into question previous widely held assumptions. The volume is characterized by judicious appraisals made by respected authorities, and sheds considerable light on contentious themes.
| Author | : Liliana Riga |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2012-11-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107014220 |
This book offers a new interpretation of the Russian Revolution, finding that nearly two-thirds of the Bolsheviks were ethnic minorities.
| Author | : Alessandra Tarquini |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2021-07-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3030566625 |
This book examines how left-wing political and cultural movements in Western Europe have considered Jews in the last two hundred years. The chapters seek to answer the following question: has there been a specific way in which the Left has considered Jewish minorities? The subject has taken various shapes in the different geographical contexts, influenced by national specificities. In tandem, this volume demonstrates the extent to which left-wing movements share common trends drawn from a collective repertoire of representations and meanings. Highlighting the different aspects of the subject matter, the chapters in this book are divided in three parts, each dedicated to a major theme: the contribution of the theorists of Socialism to the Jewish Question; Antisemitism and its representations in left-wing culture; and the perception of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Taken together, these three themes allow for a multidisciplinary analysis of the relationship between the Left and Jews from the second half of the nineteenth century to recent times.
| Author | : Emil Draitser |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2008-09-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520942256 |
Many years after making his way to America from Odessa in Soviet Ukraine, Emil Draitser made a startling discovery: every time he uttered the word "Jewish"—even in casual conversation—he lowered his voice. This behavior was a natural by-product, he realized, of growing up in the anti-Semitic, post-Holocaust Soviet Union, when "Shush!" was the most frequent word he heard: "Don't use your Jewish name in public. Don't speak a word of Yiddish. And don't cry over your murdered relatives." This compelling memoir conveys the reader back to Draitser's childhood and provides a unique account of midtwentieth-century life in Russia as the young Draitser struggles to reconcile the harsh values of Soviet society with the values of his working-class Jewish family. Lively, evocative, and rich with humor, this unforgettable story ends with the death of Stalin and, through life stories of the author's ancestors, presents a sweeping panorama of two centuries of Jewish history in Russia.
| Author | : Isaac Deutscher |
| Publisher | : Verso Books |
| Total Pages | : 177 |
| Release | : 2017-03-28 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1786630842 |
Essays on Judaism in the modern world, from philosophy and history to art and politics In these essays Deutscher speaks of the emotional heritage of the European Jew with a calm clear-sightedness. As a historian he writes without religious belief, but with a generous breadth of understanding; as a philosopher he writes of some of the great Jews of Europe: Spinoza, Heine, Marx, Trotsky, Luxemburg, and Freud. He explores the Jewish imagination through the painter Chagall. He writes of the Jews under Stalin and of the “remnants of a race“ after Hitler, as well as of the Zionist ideal, of the establishment of the state of Israel, of the Six-Day War, and of the perils ahead.
