Confronting the Jewish Rejection of Jewish Particularism: Chaim
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Load more
Recommended publications
-
Proquest Dissertations
INFORMATION TO USERS This manuscript has been reproduced from the microfilm master. UMI films the text directly from the original or copy submitted. Thus, some thesis and dissertation copies are in typewriter face, while others may be from any type of computer printer. The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. Broken or indistinct print, colored or poor quality illustrations and photographs, print t>leedthrough. substandard margins, and improper alignment can adversely affect reproduction. In the unlikely event that the author did not send UMI a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if unauthorized copyright material had to t>e removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Oversize materials (e.g., maps, drawings, charts) are reproduced by sectioning the original, beginning at the upper left-hand comer and continuing from left to right in equal sections with small overlaps. Photographs included in ttie original manuscript have been reproduced xerographically in this copy. Higher quality 6" x 9" black and white photographic prints are available for any photographs or illustrations appearing in this copy for an additional charge. Contact UMI directly to order. Bell & Howell Information and Learning 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 USA 800-521-0600 UMI* CHARITY WORK AS NATION-BUILDING: AMERICAN JEWISH WOMEN AND THE CRISES DSr EUROPE AND PALESTINE, 1914-1930 DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Mary McCune, M.A. ***** The Ohio State University 2000 Dissertation Committee: Approved by Professor Susan M. -
Sweating for Democracy: Working-Class Media and the Struggle for Hegemonic Jewishness, 1919-1941 by Brian Craig Dolber Dissertat
SWEATING FOR DEMOCRACY: WORKING-CLASS MEDIA AND THE STRUGGLE FOR HEGEMONIC JEWISHNESS, 1919-1941 BY BRIAN CRAIG DOLBER DISSERTATION Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Communication in the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011 Urbana, Illinois Doctoral Committe: Professor Robert W. McChesney, Chair Professor James R. Barrett Professor John C. Nerone Associate Professor Inger Lisbeth Stole ii Abstract Using the framework of political economy of media, this dissertation examines the history of the Jewish working class counterpublic in the United States during the interwar period and its relationships to the broader public sphere. Between 1919 and 1941, organic intellectuals, such as B.C. Vladeck, J.B.S. Hardman, Fannia Cohn, and Morris Novik, employed strategies to maintain the Yiddish-language newspaper the Forward, worker education programs, and radio station WEVD. These forms of media and cultural production were shaped by internal conflicts and struggles within the counterpublic, as well as evolving practices and ideas around advertising, public relations, and democracy. Vladeck, Hardman, Cohn and Novik all helped to extend Yiddish socialist culture through the reactionary 1920s while laying the groundwork for an American working class culture represented by the CIO in the 1930s, and a broad consensus around a commercial media system by the postwar period. This history demonstrates the challenges, conflicts, and contradictions that emerge in media production within counterpublics, and posits that other similar case studies are necessary in order develop enlightened strategies to democratize our contemporary media system. iii Acknowledgments While this dissertation is the product of many years of labor on my part, I can not imagine having completed it without the support and inspiration of so many people. -
“Brothers and Sisters of Work and Need”: the Bundist Newspaper Unzer Tsayt and Its Role in New York City, 1941-1944
“Brothers and Sisters of Work and Need”: The Bundist Newspaper Unzer Tsayt and its Role in New York City, 1941-1944 Saul Hankin A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of BACHELOR OF ARTS WITH HONORS DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN April 3, 2013 Advised by Professor Scott Spector TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments ........................................................................................................... ii Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 1 Chapter One: Convergent Histories: Jewish Socialism in New York City and in Eastern Europe, 1881-1941 ................................................................................. 9 Chapter Two: The Bundist Past and Present: Historiography and Holocaust in Unzer Tsayt .......................................................................................................... 29 Chapter Three: Solving the “Jewish Question”: Anti-Zionism in Unzer Tsayt ....... 49 Conclusion ...................................................................................................................... 72 Bibliography ................................................................................................................... 77 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS My sincere thanks go to the following people and institutions that made this thesis possible: Professor Scott Spector, my thesis advisor, in particular for always encouraging me to engage more with primary -
Jewish Labor Committee Haggadah
Occupations of Talmudic Rabbis Many people believe that the ancient Jewish sages were involved only with the study of the Torah. The fact is that many sages had other professions from which they made a living. Here are several famous rabbis and their occupations: Rabbi Joseph locksmith Rabbi Seshet woodcutter Rabbi Jose net maker Rabbi Meir secretary Rabbi Yochanan shoemaker Rav Papa brewer Rav Adah Sabulah pearl diver Rabbi Yehudah baker Hillel woodcutter Shammai carpenter Rabbi Chanina shoemaker Rabbi Simon ben Lakish circus performer Abba Saul grave digger Abba ben Abba silk dealer Yitzchak Nafcha blacksmith Rabbi Meir scribe Rabbi Chalafa leather maker *** What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails, more books and less arsenals, more learning and less vice, more constant work and less crime, more leisure and less greed, more justice and less revenge. — Samuel Gompers, 1894 NOTE: The four-letter Hebrew representation of the name of God appears in this Haggadah, and thus can be considered a holy document. Please treat it with the appropriate reverence. Rather than discarding it, it can be sent to any synagogue, which will be able to dispose of it appropriately. 1 INTRODUCTION We have come together at this time for many reasons. We are here because it is Spring, the earth is reborn, and it is a good time to celebrate with family and friends. But more importantly, we are here to remember the ancient Jewish story of liberation — a great struggle for freedom and dignity. We are here because the struggle for human freedom never stops. -
Middlesex University Research Repository an Open Access Repository Of
Middlesex University Research Repository An open access repository of Middlesex University research http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk McIlroy, John and Campbell, Alan (2019) Towards a prosopography of the American communist elite: the foundation years, 1919–1923. American Communist History . ISSN 1474-3892 [Article] (Published online first) (doi:10.1080/14743892.2019.1664840) Final accepted version (with author’s formatting) This version is available at: https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/28259/ Copyright: Middlesex University Research Repository makes the University’s research available electronically. Copyright and moral rights to this work are retained by the author and/or other copyright owners unless otherwise stated. The work is supplied on the understanding that any use for commercial gain is strictly forbidden. A copy may be downloaded for personal, non-commercial, research or study without prior permission and without charge. Works, including theses and research projects, may not be reproduced in any format or medium, or extensive quotations taken from them, or their content changed in any way, without first obtaining permission in writing from the copyright holder(s). They may not be sold or exploited commercially in any format or medium without the prior written permission of the copyright holder(s). Full bibliographic details must be given when referring to, or quoting from full items including the author’s name, the title of the work, publication details where relevant (place, publisher, date), pag- ination, and for theses or dissertations the awarding institution, the degree type awarded, and the date of the award. If you believe that any material held in the repository infringes copyright law, please contact the Repository Team at Middlesex University via the following email address: [email protected] The item will be removed from the repository while any claim is being investigated. -
As Jewish Life in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Became
1 Introduction Matthew Hoffman and Henry Srebrnik s Jewish life in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries became A more economically and politically precarious, various movements arose which claimed they had found the “solution” to the political dilemmas facing the Jewish people. Some were religious, some frankly assimilationist, some completely universalistic and adherents of socialist doctrines, and some, of course, were nationalistic and Zionist. One political movement, though, combined elements of two strands, Marxist universalism and Jewish nation- alism. This grouping of like-minded organizations, active mainly between 1917 and 1956, we have termed the Jewish Communist movement. It had active members throughout the Jewish diaspora, in particular in the various countries of Europe and North America, as well as in Australia, Palestine, South Africa, and South America. These were later interconnected on a global level through international movements such as the World Jewish Cultural Union, or Alveltlekher Yidisher Kultur Farband (YKUF), founded in 1937. YKUF, which operated mainly in Yiddish, created a great variety of newspapers and theoretical and literary journals, which allowed Jewish Communists to communicate, disseminate information, and debate issues such as Jewish nationality and statehood independently of other Commu- nists. Though officially part of the larger world Communist movement, in reality the Jewish Communists developed their own specific ideology, which was infused as much by Jewish sources—Labour Zionism, the -
1 "Commitment and Crisis: Jews and American Communism" Tony Michels
"Commitment and Crisis: Jews and American Communism" Tony Michels (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison) Introduction During the 1920s, Jews formed the American Communist Party’s most important base of support. The party’s Jewish Federation, its Yiddish-speaking section, claimed around 2,000 members or 10% of the party’s overall membership in mid-decade. Yet that figure hardly conveys the extent of Jewish involvement with Communism during the 1920s. To begin with, a significant number of Jews were members of the party’s English-, Russian-, Polish-, and Hungarian-speaking units. Moreover, Communism’s influence among Jews extended far beyond the narrow precincts of party membership. The Communist Yiddish daily, Di frayhayt, enjoyed a reputation for literary excellence and reached a readership of 20,000-30,000, a higher circulation than any Communist newspaper, including the English-language Daily Worker. Jewish Communists built a network of summer camps, schools for adults and children, cultural societies, theater groups, choirs, orchestras, and even a housing cooperative in the Bronx that encompassed tens of thousands of Communist Party members, sympathizers, and their families. Finally, Communists won a strong following among Jewish workers in the needle trades and even came close to capturing control of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union between 1923 and 1926. (A remarkable seventy percent of ILGWU members belonged to Communist-led locals during those years.) Viewed through the lens of immigrant Jewry, then, Communism's golden age was not the Great Depression but rather the preceding decade. To be sure, Jewish Communists were in the minority, but 1 they were far from isolated. -
16 June 2021 Aperto
AperTO - Archivio Istituzionale Open Access dell'Università di Torino Indomita yidishe mame. Ida Kaminska e la sua famiglia teatrale This is the author's manuscript Original Citation: Availability: This version is available http://hdl.handle.net/2318/1659848 since 2018-02-13T10:38:12Z Publisher: Accademia University Press Terms of use: Open Access Anyone can freely access the full text of works made available as "Open Access". Works made available under a Creative Commons license can be used according to the terms and conditions of said license. Use of all other works requires consent of the right holder (author or publisher) if not exempted from copyright protection by the applicable law. (Article begins on next page) 06 October 2021 Tutto era musica Figure e motivi del tea tro e del cinema yiddish tra Europa e America vol. VII kaminska_interni_L3.indd 1 05/02/18 10:59 Tutto era musica ISSN 2283-7353 Figure e motivi del tea tro e del cinema yiddish tra Europa e America I. Antonio Attisani con Veronica Belling, Marida Rizzuti e Luca Valenza, Tutto era musica. Indice sommario per un atlante della scena yiddish II. Luci, ombre e voci sullo schermo yiddish III. Antonio Attisani, Da Odessa a New York: una Grande Aquila, un re dello shund e altre stelle vagabonde IV. Maurice Schwartz e la “Commedia dell’arte yiddish” della seconda età dell’oro V. Antonio Attisani, Solomon Michoels e Veniamin Zuskin. Vite parallele nell’arte e nella morte VI. Claudia D’Angelo, Re Lear. Storia di uno spettacolo yiddish sovietico VII. Giulia Randone, Indomita yidishe mame. -
A Tempest in Three Teapots: Yom Kippur Balls in London, New York, and Montreal1
Rebecca E. Margolis A TEMPEST IN THREE TEAPOTS: YOM KIPPUR BALLS IN LONDON, NEW YORK, AND MONTREAL1 I. INTRODUCTION In 1888, a group of London “free thinkers” hosted a Yom Kippur ball, the first ever of its kind. Held in a rented hall, the ball fea- tured antireligious lectures, music, and refreshments for the duration of Yom Kippur [the Day of Atonement], from Kol Nidre to Neila. The advertised event aroused the ire of the local Jewish community. Despite opposition and efforts to disrupt the event, the idea soon spread to America. AYom Kippur ball was held in New York in 1889, and similar Yom Kippur events took place in subsequent years in Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, and other Jewish centres in the New World. Rather than a one-time fringe event, these Yom Kippur Balls attracted prominent leaders from Jewish socialist circles and enjoyed mass support over a number of years. The annual event received coverage in the press, including the non- Jewish English-language dailies, the anglo-Jewish weeklies, and the Yiddish-language Orthodox, Socialist and anarchist periodicals. The Yom Kippur ball tradition spanned almost two decades. Waning support, and a general decline in the anarchist movement, coupled with widespread anti-anarchist sentiment by the first years of the twentieth century, marked the decline of the Yom Kippur ball. By 1905, the Yom Kippur ball had generally been reduced to small local gatherings. A Tempest in Three Teapots 39 But not in Montreal, Canada: whereas in other Jewish centers such as London and New York the anarchist custom of holding an annual Yom Kippur ball had pretty much come and gone by 1905, Montreal free-thinkers held their first, and only Yom Kippur ball in 1905, a decade and a half later than its English and American counterparts. -
Foward Building
Landmarks Preservation Commission March 18, 1986, Designation List 184 LP-1419 FORWARD BUILDING, 173-175 East Broadway, Borough of Manhattan. Built 1912: architect George A. Boehm. Landmark Site: Borough of ?v'anhattan Tax Map Block 284, Lot 23. On April 12, 1983, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a public hearing on the proposed designation as a Landmark of the Forward Building and the proposed designation of the related Landmark Site (Item No. 1). The hearing had been duly advertised in accordance with the provisions of law. Three witnesses spoke in favor of designation. There were no speakers in opposition to designation. DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS Constructed in 1912, the ten-story Fdrward Building remains to this day a towering presence within the context of its immediate Lower East Side neighborhood. Its only competitor for dominance, apart from the modern high-rise Seward Park Houses, was and is the late 19th-century S. Jarmulowsky's Bank located a short distance west at Canal and Allen Streets. For the newspaper which avowed, '.'The Forward will be a socialist paper and its first duty is to spread the ideas of socialism among the Jewish masses," the height of its new office bui.::.ding 'V'ras a considered and deliberate response to that bari.k, capitalism's major monument on the Lower East Side. 1 Designed by George A. Boehm and built just fifteen years after the 1897 founding of the Jewish Daily Forward, the Forward Buildin.g is a richly ornamented terra-cotta and brick-clad Beaux-Arts style structure. I t is comparable to the eminence attained by the world's preminent Yiddish language daily and to the Forward's role as a significant determinant in the political, cultural and social history of the immigrant commu.~ity it served, a history which the Jewish Daily Forward's cm:n history parallels. -
The Emotions of Protest in the Songs of Dovid Edel
TSUM FOLK VEL IKH FUN KEYVER ZINGEN I WILL SING TO THE PEOPLE FROM THE GRAVE: THE EMOTIONS OF PROTEST IN THE SONGS OF DOVID EDELSHTAT By JOHN SAMUEL LORBER Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Vanderbilt University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS in Religion May 2015 Nashville, Tennessee Approved: Shaul Jacob Kelner, Ph.D. Nina Warnke, Ph.D. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This work would not have been possible without the financial support of a Vanderbilt Program in Jewish Studies tuition award, a grant to attend the YIVO/NYU Summer Program in Yiddish Studies, and work-study in the Vanderbilt Divinity Library. I am particularly grateful to Professors Dan Cornfield and David J. Wasserstein for their early support of my candidacy for the program and Professor Leah Marcus for her patient guidance through the challenges of coursework. The complex task of weaving several disciplines into a cogent project could not have been accomplished without the selfless hours Professor Nina Warnke spent steering me through nuanced translations of arcane Yiddish texts. Special thanks to Professor Gary Gerstle for introducing me to Irving Howe and modeling the highest standards of academic composition. Most of all I would like to thank Professor Shaul Kelner whose generous professional and personal disposition as advisor and mentor made the journey a joy. ii LIST OF FIGURES Figure Page 1. Mayn tsavoe .................................................................................................................1 -
Soviet Immigrant Jewry in the Chicago Area (1960-1980): Enculturation and Education
Loyola University Chicago Loyola eCommons Dissertations Theses and Dissertations 1992 Soviet Immigrant Jewry in the Chicago Area (1960-1980): Enculturation and Education Sharon Rae Bender Loyola University Chicago Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss Part of the Education Commons Recommended Citation Bender, Sharon Rae, "Soviet Immigrant Jewry in the Chicago Area (1960-1980): Enculturation and Education" (1992). Dissertations. 2931. https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/2931 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Copyright © 1992 Sharon Rae Bender SOVIET IMMIGRANT JEWRY IN THE CHICAGO AREA (1960-1980): ENCULTURATION AND EDUCATION by Sharon Rae Bender A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Loyola University of Chicago in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy January 1992 @by Sharon Rae Bender, January 1992 All Rights Reserved ACKNOWLEDGMENTS It is my pleasure to recognize those individuals who provided assistance and support during the development of this study. Their contributions are forever valued. I am extremely grateful to Dr. Gerald Gutek, director of this dissertation, for his advice and encouragement. I am also appreciative of the wise counsel provided by committee members, Doctors Max Bailey and John Wozniak. A debt of gratitude is owed to the administrators of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, Jewish Family and Community Service, Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe, and Rabbi Louis Lazovsky, who graciously permitted me to interview them.