Jews and the Left [electronic resource] : The Rise and Fall of a Political Alliance /
Mendes, P.author.
The historical involvement of Jews in the political Left is well known, but far less attention has been paid to the political and ideological factors which attracted Jews to the Left. After the Holocaust and the creation of Israel many lost their faith in universalistic solutions, yet lingering links between Jews and the Left continue to exist.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the Author; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Who is a Jew?; What is the Left?; Contributing factors to Jewish engagement with the Left; The Jewishness of Jewish radicals; The unique contribution of Jewish internationalism; Most Jews not sympathetic to the Left; The structure of the book; 1 The beginnings of the Jewish attraction to the Left; 1 The influence of the European Enlightenment; 2 The influence of the 1789 French Revolution; 3 The Conservative backlash against Jewish equality; 4 The influence of the Haskalah
5 Jewish involvement in the 1830 and 1848 European liberal revolutions and early socialism6 Jewish involvement in early Russian radicalism; 2 Anti-Semitism and support for Jewish rights: an analysis of socialist attitudes to the Jews; 1 Early socialist anti-Semitism, 1843-1917; 2 Support for Jewish rights in the early socialist movement; 3 Social democratic and other non-communist Left attitudes to Jews 1917-1967; 4 Communist International and Soviet Union attitudes to Jews 1917-1991; 5 The non-communist Left and the Jews after the 1967 Six Day War; 6 Examples of Left anti-Semitism
7 When does anti-Zionism become anti-Semitism?3 Socialism, Zionism and the State of Israel; 1 Early socialist opposition to Zionism; 2 The Communist International and Zionism, 1917-1942; 3 The emergence of social democratic support for Zionism, 1914-1948; 4 The Communist International and Zionism, 1942-1967; 5 Social democratic and other non-communist Left support for Israel, 1948-1967; 6 Trotsky and the Trotskyists; 7 The sea change in Left attitudes following the 1967 Six Day War; 8 Key chronological trends in Left attitudes, 1967-2014
4 From the universalist to the particular: Jewish involvement in the Left1 A spectrum of Jewish influences and identity; 2 1890-1950; 3 Jews and transnational issues, activities and movements; 5 A critical analysis of the myth of Judeo-Communism; 1 The historical context of the Judeo-Communist theory; 2 Deconstructing the Judeo-Communist theory; 3 Jewish communism in Cold War America; 4 Other examples of the Judeo-Communist theory around the globe; 5 Recent examples of the Judeo-Communist theory
6 The postwar decline of the Jewish-Left alliance: From the international to the national solution1 The impact of four key historical events; 2 Other influential factors; 7 Exceptions to the rule: The continuing prominence of left-wing Jews in the postwar period; 1 The rise and fall of the Muscovites; 2 Jewish involvement in the New Left civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movement; 3 Jews and newer social movements; 8 Left-wing Jewish critics of Zionism and Israel; 1 Jewish attitudes to Zionism prior to the founding of Israel; 2 Left-wing Jewish attitudes to Zionism from 1945 to 1967
3 The emergence of Jewish Dissent on Israel 1967-1993
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The historical involvement of Jews in the political Left is well known, but far less attention has been paid to the political and ideological factors which attracted Jews to the Left. After the Holocaust and the creation of Israel many lost their faith in universalistic solutions, yet lingering links between Jews and the Left continue to exist.
Judaism.
Europe—History.
World politics.
Religion—History.
Judaism and culture.
History, Modern.
Judaism.
European History.
Political History.
History of Religion.
Jewish Cultural Studies.
Modern History.