Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Klingberg, Sylvia
2. Fernbach, David

Description

1. xvi, 304 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. "They were on the barricades from the avenues of Petrograd to the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto, from the anti-Franco struggle to the anti-Nazi resistance. Before the Holocaust, Yiddishland was a vast expanse of Eastern Europe running from the Baltic Sea to the western edge of Russia and featured hundreds of Jewish communities, numbering 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 respect for religious tradition, but were then 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"--

Uniform title

1. Yiddishland révolutionnaire. English

Alternative title

1. Yiddishland révolutionnaire.

Subject

1. 1939-1945
2. Jewish radicals > Europe, Eastern
3. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
4. Jews > Soviet Union > History
5. 15.70 history of Europe
6. HISTORY > Jewish
7. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Radicalism
8. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Jewish Studies
9. Ethnic relations
10. Jewish radicals
11. Jews
12. Widerstand
13. Juden
14. Radikaler
15. Kommunismus
16. Revolutionäre Bewegung
17. Zionismus
18. Jewish radicals > Europe, Eastern
19. Jews > Europe, Eastern > History > 20th century
20. Jews, East European > History
21. Jewish anarchists
22. Jewish communists
23. Zionism
24. Soviet Union > Ethnic relations
25. Eastern Europe
26. Soviet Union
27. Osteuropa

Genre/Form

1. History

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. "This English translation is from the second edition published by Édition Syllepse in 2009, which was revised by David Forest with the addition of new editorial notes and references."--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-294) and index.

Language (note)

1. Translated from the French.