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Revolutionary Yiddishland - A History of Jewish Radicalism (Paperback)
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Revolutionary Yiddishland - A History of Jewish Radicalism (Paperback)
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Jewish radicals manned the barricades on the avenues of Petrograd
and the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto; they were in the vanguard of
those resisting Franco and the Nazis. They originated in
Yiddishland, a vast expanse of Eastern Europe that, before the
Holocaust, ran from the Baltic Sea to the western edge of Russia
and incorporated hundreds of Jewish communities with a combined
population of some 11 million people. Within this territory,
revolutionaries arose from the Jewish misery of Eastern and Central
Europe; they were raised in the fear of God and taught to respect
religious tradition, but were caught up in the great current of
revolutionary utopian thinking. Socialists, Communists, Bundists,
Zionists, Trotskyists, manual workers and intellectuals, they
embodied the multifarious activity and radicalism of a Jewish
working class that glimpsed the Messiah in the folds of the red
flag. Today, the world from which they came has disappeared,
dismantled and destroyed by the Nazi genocide. After this
irremediable break, there remain only survivors, and the work of
memory for red Yiddishland. This book traces the struggles of these
militants, their singular trajectories, their oscillation between
great hope and doubt, their lost illusions-a red and Jewish gaze on
the history of the twentieth century.
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