Jews and Leftist Politics: Judaism, Israel, Antisemitism, and Gender

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Cambridge University Press, Mar 24, 2017 - History - 374 pages
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Left and the Jews -- Jews on the Left -- The Jewish Left -- A. The Jewish Left in Europe -- B. The Jewish Left in the United States -- Contemporary Jewish Political Attitudes -- Part One Political Implications of Judaism -- 1 The Strangeness of Jewish Leftism -- Part Two Antisemitism and the Left -- 2 The Dualisms of Capitalist Modernity -- Reflections on History, the Holocaust, and Antisemitism -- 3 Marxism's Other Jewish Questions -- Part Three Israel, Zionism, and the Left -- 4 Socialist Zionism and Nation Building -- 5 Delegitimation of Israel or Social-Historical Analysis? The Debate over Zionism as a Colonial Settler Movement -- Introduction -- Zionist Intentions -- Zionist Practices Settlement Strategies -- Mother Country -- Conclusion -- 6 Does the Left Have a Zionist Problem? From the General to a Particular -- II -- III -- Part Four Jews and Communism -- 7 Jews and Communism in the Soviet Union and Poland -- Conclusion -- 8 Jews and American Communism -- Part Five Gendered Perspectives -- 9 Gesia Gelfman: A Jewish Woman on the Left in Imperial Russia -- 10 Manya Shochat and Her Traveling Guns: Jewish Radical Women from Pogrom Self-Defense to the First Kibbutzim -- The Volatile Jewish Left in 1903 -- Manya and the Rival Jewish Left Parties -- Manya and the Roving Guard Units -- Conclusion -- 11 The Gender of Jews and the Politics of Women: A Reflection -- Part Six Canonical Figures -- 12 Gershom Scholem and the Left -- 13 The Romantic Socialism of Gustav Landauer -- Gemeinschaft, Revolution, and Socialism -- Romantic Judaism -- War and Revolution -- 14 Martin Buber between Left and Right -- 1 Buber's Zionist Political Theology
 

Contents

The Strangeness of Jewish Leftism
29
Reflections on History
43
Marxisms Other Jewish Questions
67
Socialist Zionism and Nation Building
87
Delegitimation of Israel or SocialHistorical Analysis?
103
Does the Left Have a Zionist Problem? From the General
123
Jews and Communism in the Soviet Union and Poland
147
Jews and American Communism
169
A Reflection
217
Gershom Scholem and the Left
233
The Romantic Socialism of Gustav Landauer
252
Martin Buber between Left and Right
267
The Soviet Union Jewish Concerns and the New York
291
Jews and the Left at the New School
312
On the NonJewish Jew
331
Glossary
351

A Jewish Woman on the Left in Imperial Russia
183
Jewish Radical
200

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Jack Jacobs is Professor of Political Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of a number of titles including most recently The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism (Cambridge, 2015). He was a Fulbright Scholar at Tel Aviv University in 1996-7, and also served as Fulbright Scholar at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute, Lithuania in 2009.

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