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A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York
Tony Michels
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Description for A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York
Paperback. In a compelling history of the Jewish community in New York during four decades of mass immigration, this title examines the defining role of the Yiddish socialist movement in the American Jewish experience. Num Pages: 352 pages, 23 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJ; HBTB; JFSR1; JPFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 202 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 386.
In a compelling history of the Jewish community in New York during four decades of mass immigration, Tony Michels examines the defining role of the Yiddish socialist movement in the American Jewish experience. The movement, founded in the 1880s, was dominated by Russian-speaking intellectuals, including Abraham Cahan, Mikhail Zametkin, and Chaim Zhitlovsky. Socialist leaders quickly found Yiddish essential to convey their message to the Jewish immigrant community, and they developed a remarkable public culture through lectures and social events, workers' education societies, Yiddish schools, and a press that found its strongest voice in the mass-circulation newspaper Forverts. ... Read more
In a compelling history of the Jewish community in New York during four decades of mass immigration, Tony Michels examines the defining role of the Yiddish socialist movement in the American Jewish experience. The movement, founded in the 1880s, was dominated by Russian-speaking intellectuals, including Abraham Cahan, Mikhail Zametkin, and Chaim Zhitlovsky. Socialist leaders quickly found Yiddish essential to convey their message to the Jewish immigrant community, and they developed a remarkable public culture through lectures and social events, workers' education societies, Yiddish schools, and a press that found its strongest voice in the mass-circulation newspaper Forverts. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
386g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674032439
SKU
V9780674032439
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About Tony Michels
Tony Michels is George L. Mosse Associate Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Reviews for A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York
In November, 1917, New York's Jewish working class elected a slew of Socialist Party officials, including seven aldermen, ten state assemblymen, and a municipal judge. Huge crowds gathered around 'Trotsky Square' to celebrate. This informative... account traces the Jewish Socialist movement from its beginning, after the Russian pogroms of the eighteen-eighties, through its height, when revolutionaries like the German anarchist ... Read more