{"product_id":"revolutionary-yiddishland-a-history-of-jewish-radicalism-alain-brossat-and-sylvia-klingberg-by-working-class-history-shop","title":"Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism – Alain Brossat and Sylvia Klingberg by Working Class History | Shop","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFulfilled by our friends at Working Class History | Shop\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-teaser\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-info\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-teaser\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-info\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-teaser\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-info\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvailable with shipping in the US and UK only.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJewish radicals manned the barricades on the avenues of Petrograd and the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto; they were in the vanguard of those resisting Franco and the Nazis. They originated in Yiddishland, a vast expanse of Eastern Europe that, before the Holocaust, ran from the Baltic Sea to the western edge of Russia and incorporated hundreds of Jewish communities with a combined population of some 11 million people. Within this territory, revolutionaries arose from the Jewish misery of Eastern and Central Europe; they were raised in the fear of God and taught to respect religious tradition, but were caught up in the great current of revolutionary utopian thinking. Socialists, Communists, Bundists, Zionists, Trotskyists, manual workers and intellectuals, they embodied the multifarious activity and radicalism of a Jewish working class that glimpsed the Messiah in the folds of the red flag.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday, the world from which they came has disappeared, dismantled and destroyed by the Nazi genocide. After this irremediable break, there remain only survivors, and the work of memory for red Yiddishland. This book traces the struggles of these militants, their singular trajectories, their oscillation between great hope and doubt, their lost illusions—a red and Jewish gaze on the history of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-reviews js-isReadmoreized\"\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"edition-single--book-reviews-header\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This rich and poignant and often enthralling record traces the Yiddishland revolutionaries from their East European roots through the years of hope and struggle and hideous crimes to the heroic anti-Nazi resistance and beyond, with fascinating asides on Spain and Palestine. There are many lessons for today.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e– Noam Chomsky\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--readmoreized-reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Could there have been a future for pre-war Jewry in which Israel did not exist and Jews were gathered in a nation state within a federated Soviet Union? This is one of the questions brought up in Alain Brossat and Sylvia Klingberg’s book. There is hope for the spirit and aims behind the stories this book tells. Jewish radicalism did not die out in 1942 with the Final Solution. It now expresses itself without Yiddish.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e– Clive Bloom,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTimes Higher Educational\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Nowadays we know more and more about the Nazi Genocide. Unfortunately, we have much less knowledge about the everyday life which preceded the horror and was so brutally terminated. For opening up this world we must praise Alain Brossat and Sylvia Klinberg for their vital new book,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Yiddishland\u003c\/i\u003e. Here, life is given priority to death, and the struggles of so many in the Yiddishland allow us to see past the catastrophes.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e– Shlomo Sand, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Invention of the Jewish People\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Brossat and Klingberg’s book is a memorial to a missing world. As an aesthetic composition, it is beautiful.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e– Max Ajl,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2017\/01\/remembering-revolutionary-yiddishland\/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMondoweiss\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Altogether,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Yiddishland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a thoroughly engaging read. It's an important historical document preserving the memory of this radical period of Jewish and European history.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e– JP O’Malley,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/life\/books\/.premium-1.764742?=\u0026amp;ts=_1484762174102\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHaaretz\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A haunting, inspiring and often tragic book,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Yiddishland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003euses first-hand interviews, deep archival research and sharp analysis to bring to life a complex landscape of factory workers, partisans, poets, party leaders, refugees, ghetto fighters and movement intellectuals.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e– Ben Lorber\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A fascinating window onto a lost world … essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the complex relationship between the Jewish left, the general left, and Zionism. The gripping testimonies collected in these pages give the lie to the idea that Jews in the Shoah went like sheep to the slaughter. Brossat and Klingberg do not try to iron out the wrinkles of the past. Their insightful commentary illuminates the passions, paradoxes, triumphs and defeats of the witnesses who populate their book.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e– Brian Klug, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeing Jewish\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDoing Justice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Its impact on me was immense. I devoured it; my political horizons radically expanded. Not only, I came to realise, was there no contradiction between Judaism, socialism and internationalism, but, until the Nazi genocide, they existed in a profoundly interrelated way.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e– Sai Englert,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/salvage.zone\/in-print\/doykayt-yiddishland-for-all\/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSalvage\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“An eye-opening oral history.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e– Gabriel Levy, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJudaic Technologies of the World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A haunting, inspiring and often tragic book, Revolutionary Yiddishland uses first-hand interviews, deep archival research and sharp analysis to bring to life a complex landscape of factory workers, partisans, poets, party leaders, refugees, ghetto fighters and movement intellectuals.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e–\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/article\/19681\/donald-trump-progressive-jews-revolutionary-yiddishland-anti-semitism\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn These Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“An absorbing oral history …\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevolutioriary Yiddishland\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eprovides fascinating insight into a relatively unknown part of Jewish history.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e– Giulia Miller,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHistory Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A spirited and politically engaged study of the lives and ideas of mid-twentieth-century Jewish revolutionaries … and a rich source for Jewish social history and for the history of the subalterns of the Jewish left in the twentieth history.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e–\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.h-net.org\/reviews\/showrev.php?id=48950\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eH-Net Judaic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTranslated by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/authors\/147-david-fernbach\"\u003eDavid Fernbach\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-reviews js-isReadmoreized\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--readmoreized-reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003ePublisher: Verso\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781784786069\u003cbr\u003ePublished: 11\/2016\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003ePage count: 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-reviews js-isReadmoreized\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"VYSN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42651355578462,"sku":"carro-48574637","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/6555\/6830\/files\/Yiddishland.jpg?v=1776300769","url":"https:\/\/impossible-girls-2.myshopify.com\/products\/revolutionary-yiddishland-a-history-of-jewish-radicalism-alain-brossat-and-sylvia-klingberg-by-working-class-history-shop","provider":"Impossible girl's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}