... the pervasive anti-Semitic sentiments among even radicalized gentile workers, the special language of Yiddish and the heritage of several thousand years demanded careful attention. In the Jewish Socialist Bund, bitterly attacked by Lenin for its "divisive" in- sistence upon autonomy, Jewish...

... fresh in my mind. The milieu of the vanished Yiddish daily Morgen Freiheit (1922-87) made one last, faltering but brave appearance on a Sunday afternoon this fall, at New York's Village Temple. Octogenarians and nonagenarians, along with a sprinkling of their children and grandchildren, met...

... been a frequent contributor to the Jewish progressive press and an occasional translator of Yiddish poetry. His most recent book is the anthology History b The New Left: Madison, Wisconsin, 195&1970. He is presently working on an ecohistorical photo study, Vanishing Rhode Island...

... always revered his radical and working-class roots. One of the few Murphys who was not only fluent in Gaelic but also in Yiddish, Joe was far more interested in discussing Marx and radical politics than he was in conducting CUNY’s administrative business. After his appointment in 1982 as CUNY...

... convinced that freedom was near. 34 Peretz Opoczynski, a Yiddish writer who worked in the ghetto as a postman, wrote a few weeks later that after the Soviet defeat in the Kerch Peninsula, rumors appeared in the Warsaw ghetto about street fighting in Kharkiv, claiming that this city would soon be taken...

.... Writing of our collaboration, Vicki introduced me to the Yiddish concept of yerushe , which translates to legacy, heritage, or inheritance. For her, yerushe denoted intergenerational communication of experience and historical knowledge. It conveyed an approach Vicki used in her own historical study...

... the song per- formed in Javanese, Hindi, Tamil, and Yiddish, among other languages. The testimonies and reflections in The Internationale are enriched by a remarkable collection of sound recordings, film footage, and still images. At the beginning of the film, Miller creates an aural...

... (Princeton, NJ, 1 The Yiddish autobiography of Cliid<el of Harneln (16461724) was first published m 1896 by David Kaufmann as Die Mpmoiren da GZP&el am Hmneln; the moot annpkte English translath b ?Ire Ljft cf GZfkcktiofHamdn,lM6-17uwrittrnbyHare~,ttBet)l-zionAbrahams(NewYot~1~~ In my bowtalk, I...

... Labor Day 1997. I am prob- ably the only person who stood on a flatbed truck in front of a vinyl plant and sang a Yiddish lullaby. They asked me to make a connection on Labor Day between my house and their house. So I stood across from the Prince’s blue vinyl...

... (the others are the Third Reich, in which examples in Yiddish and German come from the “Music and the Holocaust” website developed by Shirli Gilbert and others; and Rwanda, in which the one song is in Kinyarwanda10), but English translations of Soviet song lyrics are sufficiently available to support...

..., 1995), esp. 75-77. 8. A very short list would include much of the German-American and Yiddish lan- guage poetry of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the linecuts made for reform-minded magazines of labor demonstrations during the 1880-1910, ”amateur” photographs of strikes...

... be that as he drew ever closer to the center of power, he tended to forfeit his birth- right, that obsidian sense of Yiddish irony vulcanized through centuries of shtetl privation and persecution. With it went the ability to tell the difference between the role of the courtier...

... Order. They were not Communist Party members but [were] sym- pathetic. I grew up in the Yiddish Old Left and spent many summers at Camp Kinderland, part of the closed little Left world of New York. To protect myself in Queens, where we lived, I think I con- structed a fantasy world out of my...

... on the Sun- day after the massive confrontation. The rabbi publicly assisted the police in arresting some violators of park ordinances, but he ensured that warnings were issued before arrests were made, and he translated the warnings into Yiddish for those who could not understand them...

... Russian Jewish newcomers to New York, Epstein found unskilled work in the garment industry, lugging bundles of cloth for fourteen hours a day while studying English and mathematics in night school. But he soon found himself out of work; hampered by his lack of training and a thick Yiddish accent he never...

... views towards labor organizations.) But revolts against traditionalism were not necessarily con• ceived in an assimilationist mold; often, they upheld one definition of the ethnic community against an• other. The Yiddish secular revolt among Jews against...

..., Shoah is an odd and original film. There are none of what the French call "imageschoc." It consists in its entirety of inter- views and recollections, on camera, in Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Polish; the camera was hidden when Lanzmann was interviewing former Nazis (on one occasion he...

... of a secular Yiddish literature and cultural movement, Yiddishkeit, the political ideology of socialism, the notion of a Jewish rebirth through Zionism. Again, it was against a background of economic constraint and cultural transformation that the Jewish imigra- tion, like...

... of the Witwatersrand, 1983. 32. E.A. Mantzaris, "Radical Community: the Yiddish-Speaking Branch of the International Socialist League, 1918-1920,"and E.Brink+ "Maar 'n Klomp Factory Meide: Afrikaner Family and Community on the Witwatersrand During the 192Os," in Bozzoli, Class, Community and Conflict; E...

... it. The key case concerns Isaac Feffer, a Yiddish poet of renown. He was in the U.S. in 1943, and Robeson hosted him. When Robeson went to Moscow in 1949, the purges against Jews and intellectuals were well advanced. Robeson missed his friends like Feffer and 84 / RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW made...