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Tony Michels - Jewish Radicals: A Documentary Reader - 9780814757437 - V9780814757437
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Jewish Radicals: A Documentary Reader

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Description for Jewish Radicals: A Documentary Reader Hardback. A comprehensive sourcebook, telling the story of Jewish radicals over seven decades Series: Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSR1; JPW; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.

Winner of the 2013 New York Book Show Award in Scholarly/Professional Cover Design

Jewish Radicals explores the intertwined histories of Jews and the American Left through a rich variety of primary documents. Written in English and Yiddish, these documents reflect the entire spectrum of radical opinion, from anarchism to social democracy, Communism to socialist-Zionism. Rank-and-file activists, organizational leaders, intellectuals, and commentators, from within the Jewish community and beyond, all have their say. Their stories crisscross the Atlantic, spanning from the United States to Europe and British-ruled Palestine.


The documents illuminate in fascinating ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Series
Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814757437
SKU
V9780814757437
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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. He is the author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York (2005).

Reviews for Jewish Radicals: A Documentary Reader
From America's leading historian of Yiddish-speaking radicalism comes this rich anthology of contemporary Jewish-American voices from the 1880s through the 1940s. Among the diverse experiences and points of view reflected here, Michels convincingly identifies three dominant threadssocialist awakening as a rite-of-passage, the agony and ecstasy of political struggle, and Yiddish-based education as a labor-centered project with an uncertain agenda for ... Read more

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