The radical Jewish tradition : revolutionaries, resistance fighters and firebrands / Donny Gluckstein and Janey Stone
- Bib ID:
- 10028993
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gluckstein, Donny, 1954-, author
- Edition:
- Australian edition.
- Description:
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- Melbourne, Australia : Interventions Inc, 2024
- ©2024
- 385 pages ; 20 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780648641612 (paperback)
- Summary:
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"The claim of Israel and its apologists to represent Jews everywhere, the growth of the antisemitic far right, and the approach of the left to the Jewish question are central issues today. A knowledge of the role of Jews in the past aids understanding of these debates. This book recovers some of that long-neglected history. Before the Second World War the majority of Jews were working class and part of a wider struggle alongside their non-Jewish comrades on the left. The book celebrates Jewish radicalism from the Tsarist Empire to Poland and Germany, from London to New York. To illuminate this background the issue of Jewish identity is analysed along political, cultural, and sociological lines. Fighting oppression and exploitation took numerous political forms, including left Zionism, Bundism and revolutionary Marxism. Far from the Zionist stereotype of the ultimate victims, Jews were revolutionaries, resistance fighters and firebrands. This inspiring radical tradition was ultimately checked by the callous indifference of capitalist governments to refugees and the horror of Auschwitz. However, its lessons must be passed on to inform working class and anti-imperialist struggles in a world in crisis." -- Back cover.
- Full contents:
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- Section 1. Section 2. Section 3. Section 4. Introduction
- Firebrands: understanding the Jewish Question. Antisemitism and its adversaries
- The shaping of modern Jewry
- Jewish political currents. Revolutionaries: the Jewish radical tradition in history. Tsars, pogroms and revolutionaries: Tsarist Empire 1880s-1906
- Russia: 1917 and beyond
- A Jewish ghetto in London's East End 1880s-1912
- Fascists and the fightback: interwar London East End
- Yearning to be free: United States 1880s-1914
- Roaring and battling: interwar United States
- Antisemitism intensifies: interwar Poland. Resistance fighters: the Holocaust. Germany: counter-revolution unleashed
- Jewish resistance to the Nazis in Eastern Europe. Palestine and today. The impact of Palestine on the radical Jewish tradition
- A balance sheet.
- Notes:
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- Previously published: London : Bookmarks Publications, 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-377) and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Stone, Janey, author
- Also Titled:
- radical Jewish tradition : revolutionaries, resistance fighters & firebrands
- Copyright:
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