Winner of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, Anthologies and
Collections The year 1929 represents a major turning point in
interwar Jewish society, proving to be a year when Jews, regardless
of where they lived, saw themselves affected by developments that
took place around the world, as the crises endured by other Jews
became part of the transnational Jewish consciousness. In the
United States, the stock market crash brought lasting economic,
social, and ideological changes to the Jewish community and limited
its ability to support humanitarian and nationalist projects in
other countries. In Palestine, the anti-Jewish riots in Hebron and
other towns underscored the vulnerability of the Zionist enterprise
and ignited heated discussions among various Jewish political
groups about the wisdom of establishing a Jewish state on its
historical site. At the same time, in the Soviet Union, the
consolidation of power in the hands of Stalin created a much more
dogmatic climate in the international Communist movement, including
its Jewish branches. Featuring a sparkling array of scholars of
Jewish history, 1929 surveys the Jewish world in one year offering
clear examples of the transnational connections which linked Jews
to each other-from politics, diplomacy, and philanthropy to
literature, culture, and the fate of Yiddish-regardless of where
they lived. Taken together, the essays in 1929 argue that, whether
American, Soviet, German, Polish, or Palestinian, Jews throughout
the world lived in a global context.
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