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

The newest volume of the annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry series features essays on the varied and often controversial ways Communism and Jewish history interacted during the 20th century. The volume's contents examine the relationship between Jews and the Communist movement in Poland, Russia, America, Britain, France, the Islamic world, and Germany. Contents Symposium Dark Times, Dire Decisions: Jews and Communism Introduction—Jews and Communism: The Utopian Temptation Jews and the Communist Movement in Interwar Poland Jews and Communism: The Hungarian Case The Yiddish-Language Communist Press The Moscow State Yiddish Theater as a Cultural and Political Phenomenon Jews, Communism, and Art in Interwar America Between Insularity and Internationalism: The Lost World of the Jewish Communist “Cultural Workers” in America Party Recruitment: Jews and Communism in Britain On Jews, Frenchmen, Communists, and the Second World War After Auschwitz: The Reality and Meaning of Postwar Antisemitism in Poland Jews and Communists in the Islamic World: A Note on Abraham Serfaty and Henri Curiel From Zionism to Communism and Back: The Case of Moshe Sneh (1948–1967) A German Jewish Communist of the Second Generation: The Changing Personae of Klaus Gysi Essay The “Orthodox” Orthography of Solomon Birnbaum Review Essays The Face of Modern Orthodoxy Sheerit Hapeletah: Between Destruction and Rebirth Still More Books about Jerusalem Book Reviews Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide The “Jewish Threat”: Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army, DEBORAH DASH MOORE Displaced Persons: Growing Up in America after the Holocaust, JUDITH TYDOR BAUMEL The Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz: George Mantello, El Salvador and Switzerland’s Finest Hour, MICHAEL BERENBAUM New Beginnings: Holocaust Survivors in Bergen-Belsen and the British Zone in Germany, 1945–1950, HAIM GENIZI Life between Memory and Hope: The Survivors of the Holocaust in Occupied Germany, HAIM GENIZI Good Americans: Italian and Jewish Immigrants during the First World War, DEBORAH DASH MOORE A Race against Death: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust, HENRY L FEINGOLD Contested Memories: Poles and Jews during the Holocaust and Its Aftermath, FRANÇOIS GUESNET Biography, History, and the Social Sciences Kiyum veshever: yehudei polin ledoroteihem (The broken chain: Polish Jewry throughout the ages, vol. 2), JUDITH KALIK Lower East Side Memories, GERALD SORIN Remembering the Lower East Side: American Reflections, GERALD SORIN The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000, GEOFFREY ALDERMAN New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity, 1950–1970, ANDREW R. HEINZE Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia, THEODORE R. WEEKS Fighting to Become Americans: Assimilation and the Trouble between Jewish Women and Jewish Men, ELI LEDERHENDLER Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919–1945, DAVID ENGEL Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria during World War I, KLAUS HÖDL The Jews in the Modern World: A History since 1750, LLOYD P. GARTNER Selected Letters of Mary Antin, ELI LEDERHENDLER Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent, ELI LEDERHENDLER Language, Literature, and the Arts Ideology and Jewish Identity in Israeli and American Literature, MURRAY BAUMGARTEN Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, and Roth, EMILY MILLER BUDICK Rewriting the Jew: Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire, BRIAN HOROWITZ The Lord’s Song in a Strange Land: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship, JUDAH COHEN Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left, CAREN IRR Visual Culture and the Holocaust, STEPHEN C. FEINSTEIN Religion, Thought, and Education Haskalah and History: The Emergence of a Modern Jewish Historical Consciousness, trans. Chaya Naor and Sondra Silverton, JONATHAN KARP New Perspectives on the Haskalah, JONATHAN KARP Seventy Faces: Articles of Faith, MICHAEL ROSENAK Disability in Jewish Law, SHMUEL SHILO The Jewish Derrida, trans. Peretz Kidron, JONATHAN JUDAKEN Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East City of Stone: The Hidden History of Jerusalem, IRA SHARKANSKY Jerusalem: A City and Its Future, IRA SHARKANSKY The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount, IRA SHARKANSKY The Six-Day War and World Jewry, MICHAEL BROWN Saving the Lost Tribe: The Rescue and Redemption of the Ethiopian Jews, SHALVA WEIL Australia and Israel: An Ambiguous Relationship, SHLOMO SLONIM 'Idan haziyonut (The age of Zionism), ALLON GAL Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City, IRA SHARKANSKY Contents for Volume XXI Note on Editorial Policy "Volume XX of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry examines the extremely varied - and often controversial - ways in which Communism and Jewish history interacted during the twentieth century. While the Communist movement promoted an internationalist worldview that discounted ethnicity in favor of class solidarity, scholars in this volume show the significance of Jewish participation in the movement's history. When and why - a disproportionate number of Jews (by origin, if not belief) identified with the Communist movement, as party members or as sympathizers and "fellow travelers." Other contributors investigate how critical a role Jewish Communists played in the Communist movement and in the Jewish world."--Jacket Bringing together contributions from twelve outstanding scholars, volume 20 of this distinguished annual demonstrates in what extremely varied - and often controversial - ways Communism and Jewish history, interacted during the so-called short twentieth century. Among the key issues examined in this volume are whether, when, and why a disproportionate number of Jews (by origin if not by belief) joined the Communist movement; how significant a role they played in that movement and in the Jewish world; what policies were pursued by the Communist regimes and parties towards the Jewish people as well as Jewish party members; and what impact the association - real or imagined - between Jews and Communists had on the rise of antisemitism