Jews and the left (Record no. 19000)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 471534331
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 305.696073 LIE
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Personal name Liebman, Arthur
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Title Jews and the left
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. John Wiley
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1979
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Extent 676p.
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Summary, etc. A controversial book? Yes. Unique? Ab-<br/>solutely. Current? There's no doubt<br/>about it. For JEWS AND THE LEFT is a<br/>volume based on singular, provocative<br/>premises-premises that probe into<br/>sensitive areas and challenge cherished<br/>ideas. Why, it asks, have members of no<br/>other religious group so continuously<br/>aligned themselves with a modern po-<br/>litical philosophy as have Jews with left-<br/>ist ideologies? Will they return to this al-<br/>liance once again? Stronger, perhaps,<br/>than before?<br/>In a new and daring assessment of this<br/>unique phenomenon, Arthur Liebman<br/>examines JEWS AND THE LEFT, COV-<br/>ering the period from the 1880s to the<br/>present-and beyond. Liebman argues<br/>that a Jewish affinity toward the left<br/>emerged out of a unique confrontation<br/>by Jews—as a people—with capitalism.<br/>While analyzing the rise and fall of Jew-<br/>ish socialism, Liebman shows how the<br/>very occupational and “ethnic" factors<br/>that contributed to sustaining a relation-<br/>ship between Jews and socialism at one<br/>time, undercut these ties in other histori-<br/>cal contexts. In doing so, he meticu-<br/>lously explores the formal and informal<br/>policies of leftist parties that alternately<br/>attracted and repelled Jews.<br/>Liebman's exhaustive study of both past<br/>and present circumstances clearly<br/>shows that socialism is indeed on the<br/>agenda of the American-Jewish com-<br/>munity. In the forthcoming decades,<br/>Liebman contends, as in Czarist Russia,<br/>the Jewish community's harsh face-to-<br/>face clash with capitalism will result in a<br/>commitment surpassing all previous al-<br/>legiances. He states that the contradic-<br/>tions inherent in capitalism and the<br/>growth of socialist political economies in<br/>the rest of the world will stimulate the<br/>growth of an energetic American so-<br/>cialist movement -a movement that will<br/>come to power and in which Jews will<br/>play a leading role.<br/>In seeking to understand this complex<br/>situation, Liebman conducted numer-<br/>ous interviews with Jewish and non-<br/>Jewish leftists and ex-leftists. Memoirs,<br/>archival sources, and autobiographies<br/>were also used in creating this superb<br/>first-hand account of JEWS AND THE<br/>LEFT.<br/>Written within a Marxist/Weberian<br/>framework, this paramount book will,<br/>without question, cause controversy-<br/>now and for years to come. Many will<br/>agree with the ideas of this distin-<br/>guished scholar; others will be violently<br/>opposed to his unique perspective.<br/>Nevertheless, this timely topic deserves<br/>the time and attention of all those con-<br/>cerned about politics, history, sociologi-<br/>cal rarities, and the future.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Jew in the United States politics and government.
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