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Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration

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A remarkable historical account of the lives and activities of members of the General Jewish Labour Bund, spanning decades and continents.
  • 23 December 2021
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This ground-breaking history of the General Jewish Labour Bund in migration investigates how the organisation transformed itself from a revolutionary protagonist in early twentieth-century Russia to a socialist institution of secular Jewish life and yidishkayt for Jews in North and South America. By following thousands of activists’ paths from the shtetls of Eastern Europe to the working-class Yiddish neighbourhoods of New York and Buenos Aires, Frank Wolff traces the networks that connected these revolutionaries on both sides of the Atlantic, resulting in a richly detailed social history of this seminal transnational movement.

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Price: $45.00
Pages: 532
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Series: Historical Materialism
Publication Date: 23 December 2021
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781642596069
Format: Paperback
BISACs: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Political ideologies and movements, HISTORY / Jewish, RELIGION / Judaism / History, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Social and cultural history, Judaism, History of religion, General and world history, Industrial relations, occupational health and safety
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“If one wants to understand the spirit, the culture, the soul of the Bund, one should read this book.”

—Marvin S. Zuckerman, Dissent

Frank Wolff, PD Dr. habil., is a historian and researcher at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrück University. His other publications include Die Mauergesellschaft: Kalter Krieg, Menschenrechte und die deutsch-deutsche Migration 1961–1989 (Suhrkamp, 2019) and What Is a Migration Regime? Was ist ein Migrationsregime? (Springer VS, 2018).