Jews and Leftist Politics
Subtitle: Judaism, Israel, Antisemitism, and Gender
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Cambridge, England; New York City, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9781107256521
Copyright date: 2017
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: List of Contributors
pagenum: vii; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xiii; title: Introduction, Jack Jacobs
pagenum: 1; label: Part One
title: Political Implications of Judaism; label: 1.
title: The Strangeness of Jewish Leftism, Michael Walzer
pagenum: 29; label: Part Two
title: Antisemitism and the Left; label: 2.
title: The Dualisms of Capitalist Modernity: Reﬂections on History, the Holocaust, and Antisemitism, Moishe Postone
pagenum: 43; label: 3.
title: Marxism’s Other Jewish Questions, Lars Fischer
pagenum: 67; title: Part Three: Israel, Zionism, and the Left; label: 4.
title: Socialist Zionism and Nation Building, Anita Shapira
pagenum: 87; label: 5.
title: Delegitimation of Israel or Social-Historical Analysis? The Debate over Zionism as a Colonial Settler Movement, Yoav Peled
pagenum: 103; label: 6.
title: Does the Left Have a Zionist Problem? From the General to a Particular, Mitchell Cohen
pagenum: 123; label: Part Four
title: Jews and Communism; label: 7.
title: Jews and Communism in the Soviet Union and Poland, Antony Polonsky
pagenum: 147; label: 8.
title: Jews and American Communism, Harvey Klehr
pagenum: 169; label: Part Five
title: Gendered Perspectives; label: 9.
title: Gesia Gelfman: A Jewish Woman on the Left in Imperial Russia, Barbara Alpern Engel
pagenum: 183; label: 10.
title: Manya Shochat and Her Traveling Guns: Jewish Radical Women from Pogrom Self-Defense to the First Kibbutzim, Deborah Hertz
pagenum: 200; label: 11.
title: The Gender of Jews and the Politics of Women: A Reﬂection, Alice Kessler-Harris
pagenum: 217; label: Part Six
title: Canonical Figures; label: 12.
title: Gershom Scholem and the Left, Steven E. Aschheim
pagenum: 233; label: 13.
title: The Romantic Socialism of Gustav Landauer, Michael Löwy
pagenum: 252; label: 14.
title: Martin Buber between Left and Right, Uri Ram
pagenum: 267; label: Part Seven
title: Case Studies; label: 15.
title: The Soviet Union, Jewish Concerns, and the New York Electoral Left, 1939–1944, Daniel Soyer
pagenum: 291; label: 16.
title: Jews and the Left at the New School, Judith Friedlander
pagenum: 312; label: 17.
title: Deutscher and the Jews: On the Non-Jewish Jew – An Analysis and Personal Reﬂection, Samuel Farber
pagenum: 331; title: Glossary
pagenum: 351; title: Index
pagenum: 355