ISBN:
9789004321380
,
9781642596069
Language:
English
Pages:
xix, 512 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Year of publication:
2021
Series Statement:
Historical materialism book series volume 226
Series Statement:
Historical materialism book series
Uniform Title:
Neue Welten in der Neuen Welt
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Wolff, Frank Yiddish revolutionaries in migration
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Wolff, Frank, 1977 - Yiddish revolutionaries in migration
DDC:
331.6/392404709041
Keywords:
Allgemeiner Jüdischer Arbeiterbund in Litauen, Polen und Rußland
;
Allgemeiner Jüdischer Arbeiterbund in Litauen, Polen und Rußland
;
Allgemeyner Idisher arbayṭerbund in Liṭa, Poylen un Rusland History
;
Soziale Bewegung
;
Sozialismus
;
Arbeiterbewegung
;
Kulturelle Identität
;
Judentum
;
Geschichte
;
Osteuropa
;
Nordamerika
;
Südamerika
;
Jewish socialists History
;
Labor Zionism History
;
Jews Politics and government 20th century
;
Allgemeiner Jüdischer Arbeiterbund in Litauen, Polen und Rußland
;
Arbeiterbewegung
;
Transnationalisierung
;
Allgemeiner Jüdischer Arbeiterbund in Litauen, Polen und Rußland
;
Auswanderer
;
Sozialismus
;
Verbreitung
;
Amerika
;
Allgemeiner Jüdischer Arbeiterbund in Litauen, Polen und Rußland
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Bundist Activism -- Activism Patterns in Eastern Europe: Constituting the Transferable -- Remembrance as Activist Practice: Initial Considerations -- The Bundist Press: From Agitational Publications to TransnationalMemorik -- Memories beyond 'Me' and 'Us': Bundist Autobiography as Social Formation -- Preserving Collective Knowledge in Migration: Collective Biography and Questionnaires -- Preliminary Conclusions -- Between Here and There: Bundist Gatherings Overseas -- Reproduction as Creation: Worker Organisation and Secondary Bundism -- Politics, Economics, Yidishkayt: The Tangled Web of Class Struggle and Cultural Work -- Passing on Yidishkayt: Transfers and Limits of Bundist Educational Work -- Relief Funds as Weapons: From Revolutionary Fundraising to Transnational Cultural Work
Abstract:
"This ground-breaking history of the General Jewish Labour Bund in migration investigates how the organisation transformed itself from a revolutionary protagonist in early twentieth-century Russia to a socialist institution of secular Jewish life and yidishkayt for Jews in North and South America. By following thousands of activists' paths from the shtetls of Eastern Europe to the working-class Yiddish neighbourhoods of New York and Buenos Aires, Frank Wolff traces the networks that connected these revolutionaries on both sides of the Atlantic, resulting in a richly detailed social history of this seminal transnational movement"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
