Fire in Their Hearts Yiddish Socialists in New York

Name: Fire in Their Hearts Yiddish Socialists in New York
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ISBN: 9780674032439

ISBN-10: 0674032438

ISBN-13: 9780674032439

Edition: 2005

Authors: Tony Michels

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In a compelling history of the Jewish community in New York during four decades of mass immigration, Tony Michels examines the defining role of the Yiddish socialist movement in the American Jewish experience.The movement, founded in the 1880s, was dominated by Russian-speaking intellectuals, including Abraham Cahan, Mikhail Zametkin, and Chaim Zhitlovsky. Socialist leaders quickly found Yiddish essential to convey their message to the Jewish immigrant community, and they developed a remarkable public culture through lectures and social events, workers' education societies, Yiddish schools, and a press that found its strongest voice in the mass-circulation newspaper Forverts.Arguing against…

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List price: $42.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/3/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.04" wide x 7.91" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

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Introduction: Socialism in American Jewish History



Coming to Shore: Russian Radicals Discover the Jewish Working Class in New York



Speaking to ""Moyshe"": Socialists Create a Yiddish Public Culture



The Politics of Yidishe Kultur: Chaim Zhitlovsky and the Challenge of Jewish Nationalism



Purely Secular, Thoroughly Jewish: The Arbeter Ring and Yiddish Education



""We Sought a Home for Our Souls"": The Communist Gamble Epilogue: An Ambiguous Legacy


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