Contents

pp v-vi

List of Contributors

pp vii-xii

Acknowledgments

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-26

PART ONE - POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF JUDAISM

pp 27-28

1 - The Strangeness of Jewish Leftism

pp 29-40

PART TWO - ANTISEMITISM AND THE LEFT

pp 41-42

2 - The Dualisms of Capitalist Modernity: Reflections on History, the Holocaust, and Antisemitism

pp 43-66

3 - Marxism's Other Jewish Questions

pp 67-84

PART THREE - ISRAEL, ZIONISM, AND THE LEFT

pp 85-86

4 - Socialist Zionism and Nation Building

pp 87-102

5 - Delegitimation of Israel or Social-Historical Analysis? The Debate over Zionism as a Colonial Settler Movement

pp 103-122

6 - Does the Left Have a Zionist Problem? From the General to a Particular

pp 123-144

PART FOUR - JEWS AND COMMUNISM

pp 145-146

7 - Jews and Communism in the Soviet Union and Poland

pp 147-168

8 - Jews and American Communism

pp 169-180

PART FIVE - GENDERED PERSPECTIVES

pp 181-182

9 - Gesia Gelfman: A Jewish Woman on the Left in Imperial Russia

pp 183-199

10 - Manya Shochat and Her Traveling Guns: Jewish Radical Women from Pogrom Self-Defense to the First Kibbutzim

pp 200-216

11 - The Gender of Jews and the Politics of Women: A Reflection

pp 217-230

PART SIX - CANONICAL FIGURES

pp 231-232

12 - Gershom Scholem and the Left

pp 233-251

13 - The Romantic Socialism of Gustav Landauer

pp 252-266

14 - Martin Buber between Left and Right

pp 267-288

PART SEVEN - CASE STUDIES

pp 289-290

15 - The Soviet Union, Jewish Concerns, and the New York Electoral Left, 1939-1944

pp 291-311

16 - Jews and the Left at the New School

pp 312-330

17 - Deutscher and the Jews: On the Non-Jewish Jew - An Analysis and Personal Reflection

pp 331-350

Glossary

pp 351-354