Essential Papers on Jews and the Left
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Historically leftist ideas and theories have had a profound impact on modern Jewish life. But, the left's impact on the Jewish community has greatly diminished today. Nonetheless, it can still be detected in the tendency of American Jews to vote for the liberal camp. This political tendency has also influenced Jewish communities actions as illustrated by the large numbers of Jews who participated in the civil rights movements of the post-World War II period and in the so-called new Left.Essential Papers on Jews and the Left presents a sweeping portrait of the defining impact of the left on modern Jewish politics and culture in Europe, Palestine/Israel, and the New World. The contributions in the first part, entitled The Jewish Left, discuss specifically Jewish radical organizations such as the Bund and Poale Zion. The second section, Jews inthe Left, explores the activities of Jews in general leftwing politics, emphasizing their role in the Russian revolutionary movement. In the final section, The Left and the Jews, the essays examine the attitudes of the left in Europe and America toward the Jewish question, including the key issue of Karl Marx and his reputedly anti-Jewish attitudes.
Introduction11The Life and Opinions of Moses Hess212The Roots of "Jewish Socialism" (1881-1892): From "Populism" to "Cosmopolitanism"?583Regional Factors in the Formation of the Jewish Labor Movement in Czarist Russia784The Reassessment of the National Question1015Ber Borokhov1226Social and Intellectual Origins of the Hashomer Hatzair Youth Movement, 1913-19201457The Bund in Polish Political Lite, 1935-19391668Political Mobilization and Institution Building in the Yishuv1989"Black Night - White Snow": Attitudes of the Palestinian Labor Movement to the Russian Revolution, 1917-192923610A Grandson of the Haskalah27511The Role of the Jews in the Russian Revolutionary Movement30012The Ties that Bind: Jewish Support for the Left in the United States32213Was Marx an Anti-Semite?36114Marx and Jewish Emancipation40215"Black Repartition" and the Pogroms of 1881-188241016The Soviet Regime and Anti-Zionism: An Analysis44017Karl Kautsky: Between Baden and Luxemburg483Select Bibliography529Index531
