Jews and leftist politics : Judaism Israel antisemitism and gender Political implications of Judaism The strangeness of Jewish leftism Michael Walzer Antisemitism and the left The dualisms of capitalist modernity : reflections on history the Holocaust and antisemitism Moishe Postone Marxisms other Jewish questions Lars Fischer Israel Zionism and the left Socialist Zionism and nation building Anita Shapira Delegitimation of Israel or social historical analysis : the debate over Zionism as a colonial settler movement Yoav Peled Does the left have a Zionist problem : from the general to a particular Mitchell Cohen Jews and communism Jews and communism in the Soviet Union and Poland Antony Polonsky Jews and American communism Harvey Klehr Gendered perspectives Gesia Gelfman : a Jewish woman on the left in imperial Russia Barbara Alpern Engel Manya Schochat and her travelling guns : Jewish radical women from pogrom self defense to the first kibbutzim Deborah Hertz The gender of Jews and the politics of women : a reflection Alice Kessler Harris Canonical figures Gershom Scholem and the left Steven E. Aschheim The romantic socialism of Gustav Landauer Michael Löwy Martin Buber between left and right Uri Ram Case studies The Soviet Union Jewish concerns and the New York electoral left 1939 1944 Daniel Soyer Jews and the left at the new school Judith Friedlander Deutscher and the Jews : on the non Jewish Jew an analysis and personal reflection Samuel Farber