The Radical Jewish Tradition: Revolutionaries, Resistance Fighters and Firebrands
Language: English
Published by Verso Books, 2026
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The Radical Jewish Tradition recovers a neglected and suppressed history of Jewish resistance to oppression. Collected here are stories of heroism and selflessness that trace their origins to resistance against the nineteenth-century Tsarist Empire. These radical Jews-most of them working class-found common cause with other oppressed groups. They refused to be defined as victims.This inspiring tradition was ultimately checked by the callous indifference of capitalist governments to refugees before the Second World War and to the Holocaust. Donny Gluckstein and Janey Stone revive this history for the benefit of a world in crisis. They consider this legacy and its impact on modern Jewish identity. At a time when a bellicose Israeli government claims to represent Jews the world over, the history of these radicals bursts the constraints placed on the historical imagination.Here is a story central to the socialist movement as well as an object lesson for all those struggling to resist.
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- Title
- The Radical Jewish Tradition: Revolutionaries, Resistance Fighters and Firebrands
- Author
- Donny Gluckstein
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1836741758
- ISBN 13
- 9781836741756
The book celebrates Jewish radicalism from the Tsarist Empire to Poland and Germany, from London to New York. Fighting oppression and exploitation took numerous political forms, including left Zionism, Bundism and revolutionary Marxism. This inspiring radical tradition was ultimately checked by the callous indifference of capitalist governments to refugees and the horror of Auschwitz. However, its lessons must be passed on to inform working-class and anti-imperialist struggles in a world in crisis.
This book recovers some of that long-neglected history. Before the Second World War, the majority of Jews were working-class and part of a wider struggle alongside their non-Jewish comrades on the left. To illuminate this background, the issue of Jewish identity is analysed along political, cultural and sociological lines. This is essential because, today, the claim of Israel and its apologists to represent Jews everywhere, the growth of the antisemitic far right and the approach of the left to the Jewish question are central issues. A knowledge of the breadth of Jewish resistance aids understanding of these debates.
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About the Author
Janey Stone’s mother sought refuge in Australia from Polish antisemitism in the 1930s. Janey is a lifelong socialist and political activist; she has been a union delegate and participated in the student, anti-Vietnam war and women’s liberation movements. As an anti-Zionist Jew, she has written and presented about resistance to the Nazis in Germany and Poland, and by Jews, and many other topics including women workers, sexual politics, the Middle East and the radical Jewish tradition. Janey is retired and lives in Melbourne (Australia). She has a leadership role in Interventions, Australia’s only independent not-for-profit radical publishing company.
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