Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Volume XX: Dark Times, Dire Decisions: Jews and Communism (Studies in Contemporary Jewry)

Contents......Page 12
Symposium Dark Times, Dire Decisions: Jews and Communism......Page 18
Introduction—Jews and Communism: The Utopian Temptation......Page 20
Jews and the Communist Movement in Interwar Poland......Page 30
Jews and Communism: The Hungarian Case......Page 55
The Yiddish-Language Communist Press......Page 79
The Moscow State Yiddish Theater as a Cultural and Political Phenomenon......Page 100
Jews, Communism, and Art in Interwar America......Page 116
Between Insularity and Internationalism: The Lost World of the Jewish Communist “Cultural Workers” in America......Page 150
Party Recruitment: Jews and Communism in Britain......Page 165
On Jews, Frenchmen, Communists, and the Second World War......Page 185
After Auschwitz: The Reality and Meaning of Postwar Antisemitism in Poland......Page 216
Jews and Communists in the Islamic World: A Note on Abraham Serfaty and Henri Curiel......Page 244
From Zionism to Communism and Back: The Case of Moshe Sneh (1948–1967)......Page 253
A German Jewish Communist of the Second Generation: The Changing Personae of Klaus Gysi......Page 272
Essay......Page 290
The “Orthodox” Orthography of Solomon Birnbaum......Page 292
Review Essays......Page 314
Seventy Faces: Articles of Faith, MICHAEL ROSENAK......Page 316
Life between Memory and Hope: The Survivors of the Holocaust in Occupied Germany, HAIM GENIZI......Page 322
Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City, IRA SHARKANSKY......Page 328
Book Reviews......Page 332
Good Americans: Italian and Jewish Immigrants during the First World War, DEBORAH DASH MOORE......Page 334
Displaced Persons: Growing Up in America after the Holocaust, JUDITH TYDOR BAUMEL......Page 337
The Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz: George Mantello, El Salvador and Switzerland’s Finest Hour, MICHAEL BERENBAUM......Page 340
A Race against Death: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust, HENRY L FEINGOLD......Page 343
Contested Memories: Poles and Jews during the Holocaust and Its Aftermath, FRANÇOIS GUESNET......Page 346
Kiyum veshever: yehudei polin ledoroteihem (The broken chain: Polish Jewry throughout the ages, vol. 2), JUDITH KALIK......Page 349
Remembering the Lower East Side: American Reflections, GERALD SORIN......Page 351
The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000, GEOFFREY ALDERMAN......Page 355
New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity, 1950–1970, ANDREW R. HEINZE......Page 356
Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia, THEODORE R. WEEKS......Page 359
Selected Letters of Mary Antin, ELI LEDERHENDLER......Page 362
Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919–1945, DAVID ENGEL......Page 367
Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria during World War I, KLAUS HÖDL......Page 369
The Jews in the Modern World: A History since 1750, LLOYD P. GARTNER......Page 371
Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent, ELI LEDERHENDLER......Page 373
Ideology and Jewish Identity in Israeli and American Literature, MURRAY BAUMGARTEN......Page 376
Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, and Roth, EMILY MILLER BUDICK......Page 377
Rewriting the Jew: Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire, BRIAN HOROWITZ......Page 380
The Lord’s Song in a Strange Land: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship, JUDAH COHEN......Page 382
Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left, CAREN IRR......Page 384
Visual Culture and the Holocaust, STEPHEN C. FEINSTEIN......Page 386
New Perspectives on the Haskalah, JONATHAN KARP......Page 390
Disability in Jewish Law, SHMUEL SHILO......Page 394
The Jewish Derrida, trans. Peretz Kidron, JONATHAN JUDAKEN......Page 396
The Six-Day War and World Jewry, MICHAEL BROWN......Page 400
Saving the Lost Tribe: The Rescue and Redemption of the Ethiopian Jews, SHALVA WEIL......Page 402
Australia and Israel: An Ambiguous Relationship, SHLOMO SLONIM......Page 405
\'Idan haziyonut (The age of Zionism), ALLON GAL......Page 407
Contents for Volume XXI......Page 409
Note on Editorial Policy......Page 410