The Jewish Labor Movement was a radical subculture that
flourished within the trade union and political movements in the
United States in the early part of the twentieth century. Jewish
immigrant activists--socialists, communists, anarchists, and labor
Zionists--adapted aspects of the traditions with which they were
raised in order to express the politics of social transformation.
In doing so, they created a folk ideology which reflected their
dual ethnic/class identity. This book explores that folk ideology,
through an analysis of interviews with participants in the Jewish
Labor Movement as well as through a survey of the voluminous
literature written about that movement.
A synthesis of political ideology and ethnic tradition was
carefully crafted by secular working-class Jewish immigrant
radicals who rediscovered and reformulated elements of Jewish
traditions as vehicles for political organizing. Commonly held
symbols of their cultural identity--the Yiddish language, rituals
such as the Passover seder, remembered narratives of the Eastern
European "shtetl," and biblical imagery--served as powerful tools
in forging political solidarity among fellow Jewish workers and
activists within the Jewish Labor Movement.
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