About this ebook
The Emergence of Modern Jewish Politics examines the
political, social, and cultural dimensions of Zionism and Bundism, the
two major political movements among East European Jews during the first
half of the twentieth century.
While Zionism achieved its primary
aim—the founding of a Jewish state—the Jewish Labor Bund has not only
practically disappeared, but its ideals of socialism and secular
Jewishness based in the diaspora seem to have failed. Yet, as Zvi
Gitelman and the various contributors argue, it was the Bund that more
profoundly changed the structure of Jewish society, politics, and
culture.
In thirteen essays, prominent historians, political
scientists, and professors of literature discuss the cultural and
political contexts of these movements, their impact on Jewish life, and
the reasons for the Bund’s demise, and question whether ethnic
minorities are best served by highly ideological or by solidly pragmatic
movements.
political, social, and cultural dimensions of Zionism and Bundism, the
two major political movements among East European Jews during the first
half of the twentieth century.
While Zionism achieved its primary
aim—the founding of a Jewish state—the Jewish Labor Bund has not only
practically disappeared, but its ideals of socialism and secular
Jewishness based in the diaspora seem to have failed. Yet, as Zvi
Gitelman and the various contributors argue, it was the Bund that more
profoundly changed the structure of Jewish society, politics, and
culture.
In thirteen essays, prominent historians, political
scientists, and professors of literature discuss the cultural and
political contexts of these movements, their impact on Jewish life, and
the reasons for the Bund’s demise, and question whether ethnic
minorities are best served by highly ideological or by solidly pragmatic
movements.
About the author
Zvi Gitelman, professor of political science and Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, is the author of A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present.
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