For the first time, this volume centers the rich but little known history of radical Jewish politics in the Middle East and North Africa and puts it into conversation with developments in the Americas, South Africa, Soviet Asia, and Europe. Jews were attracted to radical politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to transform the societies they lived in but also out of a deep desire to belong. Somewhat paradoxically, then, radical politics held out the enticing possibility of normalization for Jews, even as it frequently resulted in their further alienation or persecution. In some cases, Jewish radicals sought recognition and autonomy as Jews; in others, Jews labored to be accepted as full-fledged citizens of their home countries; in still others, they tried to escape Jewishness altogether. Jewish experiences of modernity, colonialism, race, nationalism, emancipation, war, and migration, serve as the connective tissue that binds together radical Jewish politics from Baghdad to Buenos Aires.

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Nathaniel Deutsch is Distinguished Professor of History and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of a number of award winning books, including The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement, for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Alma Rachel Heckman is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of The Sultan's Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging.

Tony Michels is the George L. Mosse Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York, which won the Salo Baron Prize for Best First Book in Jewish Studies.

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Jews became involved in radical politics to transform society but also out of a desire to belong. For the first time, this volume centers radical Jewish politics in the Middle East and North Africa and puts this history into conversation with developments in the Americas, South Africa, Soviet Asia, and Europe.

Inhalt

Introduction: Global Radical Jewish Politics 1
Nathaniel Deutsch, Alma Rachel Heckman,
and Tony Michels
PA R T I
The Middle
East and North Africa
1 Radicalism, Emancipation, and Nationalism: The Story of
Moroccan Jewish Communists 31
Alma Rachel Heckman
2 "Yes, We Are Native Algerian Jews . . .": The Anti-Colonialist
Jews of Algeria, ca. 1920-1970 49
Pierre-Jean
Le Foll-Luciani
(translated from the French by
Jane Teresa Kuntz)
3 Between Gallicism and Communism: Jews and Politics
in Tunisia, 1881-1945 61
Kamilia Rahmouni
4 Communist Jews and Egypt's Struggle
for
National Liberation 78
Rami Ginat
5 Subjugated Homeland, Unhappy People:
Iraqi Jewish
Communist Women,
1941-1966 97
Orit Bashkin
6 The Roots of Jewish Radicalism in Iran 114
Lior B. Sternfeld
7 Panthers and Leashes: A History of
Mizrahi Radicalism 135
Dario Miccoli

PA R T I I
The Americas,
South Africa, and Asia
8 A Century
of Radical Jewish Politics in Argentina 151
Nathaniel Deutsch
9 Jewish Radicals in Twentieth-Century
Brazil 168
Michael Rom
10 Jewish Radicals: The South African Experience 181
Milton Shain and Richard Mendelsohn
11 Radical Jewish Politics in the Key of Land, Language,
and Labor:
The Birobidzhan Project
189
Robert Weinberg
PA RT I I I
Eastern Europe
and the Balkans
12 Lithuania and the Making of the Jewish Working Class 211
Michael Casper
13 Communists and Zionists in Hungary, 1945-1953 221
Peter Kenez
14 Jewish Radicalism Between Ottoman Socialism and
Greek Communism, 1908-1936 234
Kostis Karpozilos and Paris Papamichos Chronakis
PA R T I V
Unorthodox Radicalisms
15 Jewish Anarchism 265
Anna Elena Torres
16 Politics of the Comparative Gaze: The Three Languages
of Right-Wing
Zionist Radicalism 280
Arie M. Dubnov
17 Middle
Eastern and North African Jews in the Irgun
and Lehi in British Mandatory Palestine 307
Avery Weinman
Acknowledgments
331
Notes on Contributors 333
Index 000