Citizens of the whole world : anti-Zionism and the cultures of the American Jewish left / Benjamin Balthaser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balthaser, Benjamin, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews, American--Cultural assimilation.

Jews, American.

Jews--United States--Attitudes toward Israel.

Jews.

Radicalism--United States--History.

Radicalism.

Social justice--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Social justice.

Left-wing extremists--United States.

Left-wing extremists.

Progressivism (United States politics)--History.

Progressivism (United States politics).

Zionism--United States--History.

Zionism.

Jews--Attitudes toward Israel.

Radicalism--History.

Zionism--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

316 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2025.

Summary:

"A history of the Jewish radical tradition in the United States"-- Provided by publisher.

"Since October 7, 2023, the world has witnessed a massive American Jewish uprising in support of Palestinian liberation. Through sit-ins in Congress or Grand Central Terminal, through petitions and marches, thousands of Jews have made it known the Israeli state is not acting in their name. This resistance did not come out of nowhere. Citizens of the Whole World returns us to its roots in the "red decade" of the 1930s and, from there, traces the history of American Jewish radicals and revolutionaries to the present day...Covering more than just the politics of anti-Zionism, Citizens of the Whole World explores the Jewish revolutionary traditions of Marxist internationalism, Jewish solidarity with Third World struggles, and relations between Jewish and Black radicals during the Civil Rights era." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: The American Jewish Left in the Shadow of Zion

1. When Anti-Zionism Was Jewish: Jewish Racial Subjectivity and the Anti-imperialist Literary Left from the Great Depression to the Cold War

2. Not Your Good Germans: Holocaust Memory, Red Scare, Anti-fascism, and the Anti-Zionism of the Jewish New Left

3. Exceptional Whites, Bad Jews: Class, Whiteness, and the Racial Politics of the Anti-Zionist Jewish New Left

4. A Kesher with the Left : Jewish Identity Politics and the Remaking of a Diasporic Left, 1970-1980

5. The Antinomies of Jewish Liberalism: Socialist Memory and the (Re-)Emergence of Jewish Anti-Zionism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-305) and index.

Other Format:

Online version Balthaser, Benjamin Citizens of the whole world

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781804291375

1804291374

OCLC:

1511802206

Publisher Number:

CIPO000236612