The Jewish Labor Movement was a radical subculture that flourished within the trade union and political movements in the United States in the early part of the twentieth century. Jewish immigrant activists--socialists, communists, anarchists, and labor Zionists--adapted aspects of the traditions with which they were raised in order to express the politics of social transformation. In doing so, they created a folk ideology which reflected their dual ethnic/class identity. This book explores that folk ideology, through an ...
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The Jewish Labor Movement was a radical subculture that flourished within the trade union and political movements in the United States in the early part of the twentieth century. Jewish immigrant activists--socialists, communists, anarchists, and labor Zionists--adapted aspects of the traditions with which they were raised in order to express the politics of social transformation. In doing so, they created a folk ideology which reflected their dual ethnic/class identity. This book explores that folk ideology, through an analysis of interviews with participants in the Jewish Labor Movement as well as through a survey of the voluminous literature written about that movement. A synthesis of political ideology and ethnic tradition was carefully crafted by secular working-class Jewish immigrant radicals who rediscovered and reformulated elements of Jewish traditions as vehicles for political organizing. Commonly held symbols of their cultural identity--the Yiddish language, rituals such as the Passover seder, remembered narratives of the Eastern European shtetl , and biblical imagery--served as powerful tools in forging political solidarity among fellow Jewish workers and activists within the Jewish Labor Movement.
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New. 0897896173. 9.63 X 6.45 X 1.03 inches; xii, 248 pages; Hard cover is dark grey with a maroon box with gold lettering on front and spine. Pages are clean and tight. The Jewish Labor Movement was a radical subculture within the trade union and political movements in the USA in the early part of the 20th century. This work examines the Movement's beliefs and rituals as forms of expressive behaviour, rather than simply as emblems of ethnic identity. One of the suggested titles on the Readings on the American Jewish Labor Movement list, from the Jewish Labor Committee. 4 appendices: App. A. The Jewish Labor Movement in Los Angeles; App. B. A Bund Haggadah; App. C. A "Third" Seder: Passover; App. D. Hollywood Kindershule Pesach Hagadah. Notes; bibliography; index.
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