Jews and Leftist Politics: Judaism, Israel, Antisemitism, and GenderCover -- 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 |
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