Revolutionary Yiddishland : a history of Jewish radicalism
Brossat, Alain2017
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Recovering the history of the revolutionary Jewish tradition 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. This book traces the struggles of these militants, their singular trajectories, their oscillation between great hope and doubt, and their lost illusions.
Main title:
Revolutionary Yiddishland : a history of Jewish radicalism / Alain Brossat and Sylvia Klingberg ; translated by David Fernbach.
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London : Verso, 2017.
Collation:
304 pages
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Translated from the French.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781784786076 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
320.530899
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EnglishFrench
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BRN:
2229511
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