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Title Dark times, dire decisions : Jews and Communism / edited by Jonathan Frankel ; guest symposium editor, Dan Diner
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 393 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 20
Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 20.
Contents Symposium Dark Times, Dire Decisions: Jews and Communism; Introduction-Jews and Communism: The Utopian Temptation; Jews and the Communist Movement in Interwar Poland; Jews and Communism: The Hungarian Case; The Yiddish-Language Communist Press; The Moscow State Yiddish Theater as a Cultural and Political Phenomenon; Jews, Communism, and Art in Interwar America; Between Insularity and Internationalism: The Lost World of the Jewish Communist "Cultural Workers" in America; Party Recruitment: Jews and Communism in Britain; On Jews, Frenchmen, Communists, and the Second World War
After Auschwitz: The Reality and Meaning of Postwar Antisemitism in PolandJews and Communists in the Islamic World: A Note on Abraham Serfaty and Henri Curiel; From Zionism to Communism and Back: The Case of Moshe Sneh (1948-1967); A German Jewish Communist of the Second Generation: The Changing Personae of Klaus Gysi; Essay; The "Orthodox" Orthography of Solomon Birnbaum; Review Essays; The Face of Modern Orthodoxy; Sheerit Hapeletah: Between Destruction and Rebirth; Still More Books about Jerusalem; Book Reviews; Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide
The "Jewish Threat": Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army, DEBORAH DASH MOOREDisplaced Persons: Growing Up in America after the Holocaust, JUDITH TYDOR BAUMEL; The Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz: George Mantello, El Salvador and Switzerland's Finest Hour, MICHAEL BERENBAUM; New Beginnings: Holocaust Survivors in Bergen-Belsen and the British Zone in Germany, 1945-1950, HAIM GENIZI; Life between Memory and Hope: The Survivors of the Holocaust in Occupied Germany, HAIM GENIZI; Good Americans: Italian and Jewish Immigrants during the First World War, DEBORAH DASH MOORE
A Race against Death: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust, HENRY L FEINGOLDContested Memories: Poles and Jews during the Holocaust and Its Aftermath, FRANÇOIS GUESNET; Biography, History, and the Social Sciences; Kiyum veshever: yehudei polin ledoroteihem (The broken chain: Polish Jewry throughout the ages, vol. 2), JUDITH KALIK; Lower East Side Memories, GERALD SORIN; Remembering the Lower East Side: American Reflections, GERALD SORIN; The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000, GEOFFREY ALDERMAN; New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity, 1950-1970, ANDREW R. HEINZE
Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia, THEODORE R. WEEKSFighting to Become Americans: Assimilation and the Trouble between Jewish Women and Jewish Men, ELI LEDERHENDLER; Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945, DAVID ENGEL; Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria during World War I, KLAUS HÖDL; The Jews in the Modern World: A History since 1750, LLOYD P. GARTNER; Selected Letters of Mary Antin, ELI LEDERHENDLER; Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent, ELI LEDERHENDLER; Language, Literature, and the Arts
Summary The newest volume of the annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry series features essays on the varied and often controversial ways Communism and Jewish history interacted during the 20th century. The volume's contents examine the relationship between Jews and the Communist movement in Poland, Russia, America, Britain, France, the Islamic world, and Germany
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Subject Jews -- History -- Periodicals
Communism -- History -- Periodicals
Communism
Jews
Genre/Form periodicals.
History
Periodicals
Periodicals.
Périodiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Frankel, Jonathan
ISBN 9780195182248
0195182243