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Author Zimmer, Kenyon

Title Immigrants against the state : Yiddish and Italian anarchism in America / Kenyon Zimmer
Published Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Working Class in American History
Working class in American history.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; Chapter 1. "Yiddish Is My Homeland": Jewish Anarchists in New York City; Chapter 2. I Senza Patria: Italian Anarchists in Paterson, New Jersey; Chapter 3. "All Flags Look Alike to Us": Immigrant Anarchists in San Francisco ; Chapter 4. "The Whole World Is Our Country" Transnational Anarchist Activism and the First World War; Chapter 5. Revolution and Repression: From Red Dawn to Red Scare ; Chapter 6. "No Right to Exist Anywhere on This Earth": Anarchism in Crisis
Conclusion: "The Whole World Is Turned into a Frightful Fortress" Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary From the 1880s through the 1940s, tens of thousands of first- and second-generation immigrants embraced the anarchist cause after arriving on American shores. Kenyon Zimmer explores why these migrants turned to anarchism, and how their adoption of its ideology shaped their identities, experiences, and actions. Zimmer focuses on Italians and Eastern European Jews in San Francisco, New York City, and Paterson, New Jersey. Tracing the movement's changing fortunes from the pre-World War I era through the Spanish Civil War, Zimmer argues that anarchists, opposed to both American and Old World nationalism, severed all attachments to their nations of origin but also resisted assimilation into their host society. Their radical cosmopolitan outlook and identity instead embraced diversity and extended solidarity across national, ethnic, and racial divides. Though ultimately unable to withstand the onslaught of Americanism and other nationalisms, the anarchist movement nonetheless provided a shining example of a transnational collective identity delinked from the nation-state and racial hierarchies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Description based on print version record
Subject Anarchism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Jewish anarchists -- United States
Italian Americans -- History
Immigrants -- United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Anarchism.
Anarchism
Immigrants
Italian Americans
Jewish anarchists
United States
USA
Etats-Unis.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019718069
ISBN 0252039386
9780252039386
0252097432
9780252097430
0252080920
9780252080920