Title Jews and leftist politics : Judaism, Israel, antisemitism, and gender / Jack Jacobs

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Contents Political implications of Judaism -- The strangeness of Jewish leftism / Michael Walzer -- Antisemitism and the left -- The dualisms of capitalist modernity : reflections on history, the Holocaust, and antisemitism / Moishe Postone -- Marxism's other Jewish questions / Lars Fischer -- Israel, Zionism, and the left -- Socialist Zionism and nation building / Anita Shapira -- Delegitimation of Israel or social-historical analysis? : the debate over Zionism as a colonial settler movement / Yoav Peled -- Does the left have a Zionist problem? : from the general to a particular / Mitchell Cohen -- Jews and communism -- Jews and communism in the Soviet Union and Poland / Antony Polonsky -- Jews and American communism / Harvey Klehr -- Gendered perspectives -- Gesia Gelfman : a Jewish woman on the left in imperial Russia / Barbara Alpern Engel -- Manya Schochat and her travelling guns : Jewish radical women from pogrom self-defense to the first kibbutzim / Deborah Hertz -- The gender of Jews and the politics of women : a reflection / Alice Kessler-Harris -- Canonical figures -- Gershom Scholem and the left / Steven E. Aschheim -- The romantic socialism of Gustav Landauer / Michael Löwy -- Martin Buber between left and right / Uri Ram -- Case studies -- The Soviet Union, Jewish concerns, and the New York electoral left, 1939-1944 / Daniel Soyer -- Jews and the left at the new school -- Judith Friedlander -- Deutscher and the Jews : on the non-Jewish Jew -- an analysis and personal reflection / Samuel Farber Summary This volume considers the political implications of Judaism, the relationships of leftists and Jews, contemporary anti-Zionism, and the importance of gender Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 19, 2017) Subject Jews -- Politics and government. Jews -- Intellectual life. Jewish women -- Politics and government Antisemitism. antisemitism. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference. Antisemitism Jews -- Intellectual life Jews -- Politics and government Die Linke Antisemitismus Gesellschaft Juden Judentum Israel Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108114387 1108114385 9781108111669 1108111661 1107047862 9781107047860 9781108113700 1108113702 9781107256521 1107256526 9781107658042 1107658047

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