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Louis Miller and Di Warheit ("THE TRUTH") - Yiddishism, Zionism and Socialism in New York, 1905-1915 (Hardcover, New)
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Louis Miller and Di Warheit ("THE TRUTH") - Yiddishism, Zionism and Socialism in New York, 1905-1915 (Hardcover, New)
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This book tells the story of Di Warheit ("The Truth"), a Yiddish
daily established in New York in late 1905. Its founder, Louis
Miller (1866-1927), emigrated from Russia to the US in 1884, and by
1897 was the leader of a group that established the Forverts, later
to be the most successful Yiddish newspaper in the United States.
Common wisdom depict Miller's social leaning as stemming from ego
and opportunism, but Ehud Manor suggests that his publishing
philosophy was based primarily on ideological and political
grounds. Why to begin his story in 1905? Because in that year 'The
Jewish Question', especially in Russia with its pogroms, turned
dramatic. Miller understood that the time had come for a paradigm
shift. The result was labelled Klal-Yisruel Politics, a combined
nationalist all-Jewish effort to ameliorate the Jewish condition'
wherever Jews suffered or were oppressed. The drive behind Miller's
decision to run Di Warheit was his eagerness to promote a
progressive, non-radical and pragmatic political mind set among his
immigrant brethren. This somewhat forgotten chapter in American
Jewish history is told here in chronological order, mainly through
the texts of Miller's newspaper. Each chapter is dedicated to the
main issue that drove Miller's publishing effort at a specific time
period, and in response to external events impacting on Jewry,
until the management forced him out of Di Warheit due to his
non-conventional interpretation of the war that broke out in Europe
in 1914. This long-awaited book tells the story of a
Yiddish-speaking socialist, who, after denying the very existence
of a specific Jewish people, was open-minded enough to re-examine
his beliefs and courageous enough to publicly change his mind. But
he paid the price for telling, or at least trying to tell, that
truth.
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