Essential reading in Jewish labor history, culture, and radicalism.
Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe once comprised the largest segment of the anarchist movement in the United States. Part historical excavation and part memoir, Joseph Cohen chronicles both well-known events and behind-the-scenes conflicts among radicals, as well as profiles of famous personalities like Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman and of the rank-and-file radicals who sustained the anarchist movement across North America from the 1880s to the 1940s.
The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America brings Joseph Cohen’s irreplaceable 1945 Yiddish-language study of America’s Jewish anarchists to an English-speaking audience for the first time and remains the most detailed examination of this neglected history.
The book also contains Cohen’s own reflections on anarchist theory and tactics, based upon his experiences and observations over four decades. Edited and fully annotated, this edition includes a wealth of supplementary information about the people, places, and events central to American anarchist history.
Table des matières
Contents
Editor’s Preface
List of Acronyms
Introduction: Joseph Jacob Cohen (1878–1953) and the Jewish Anarchist Movement
Esther Dolgoff (1905–1989): A Biographical Sketch
Author’s Preface to the 1945 Yiddish Edition
Part One: Historical Overview
1. The Preliminary Period
2. Years of Hope and Disillusionment
3. The Flourishing of the Jewish Socialist Movement in America
4. Anarchists Activities in the 1880s and 1890s
5. Alexander Berkman’s Attentat
6. The Great Crisis of 1893
7. The Revival of the Fraye Arbeter Shtime
8. The Anarchist Movement in Philadelphia in the 1880s and 1890s
9. The Influence of London on Our Movement
10. The Revival of the Anarchist Movement
11. 1901: Mc Kinley’s Assassination
12. 1902: Anti-Anarchist Backlash
Part Two: In Philadelphia, 1903–1913
13. The Period of Revision in Our Movement
14. My First Years in Philadelphia
15. Discussions about Nationalism
16. The Birth of the Radical Library and the Abend Tsaytung
17. A Strike against the Forverts and a Confrontation with Yanovsky
18. The Opening of the Radical Library
19. The Abend Tsaytung
20. The Release of Alexander Berkman and His Return to the Movement
21. Broyt un Frayheyt
22. A Quite Crisis and the Broad Street Riot
23. Voltairine de Cleyre’s Lectures and the Execution of Ferrer
24. The Radical Library Becomes a Branch of the Workmen’s Circle
25. The Streetcar Strike and Its Consequences
26. Two Conventions of the Workmen’s Circle
27. Our Conventions in New York and Philadelphia, and the Fraye Vort
28. The Mc Namara Case
29. The Uprising of the 20, 000, the Cloakmakers’ Great Revolt, and Emma Goldman
30. The Anarchist Red Cross
31. The Kropotkin Literary Society
32. The General Strikes of 1912 and 1913 in New York and Philadelphia
33. Our Movement in Philadelphia after 1913
Part Three: In and around New York, 1913–1932
34. In New York
35. Ludlow, Tarrytown, and Lexington Avenue
36. Sasha Is Leaving!
37. The Tom Mooney Case in San Francisco
38. The Ferrer School and Colony
39. The First World War and Its Impact
40. The Russian Revolution and its Effect on Our Movement
41. Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman Are Deported
42. Reaction at Home and Around the World
43. Camp Germinal
44. The Radical Library and the People Around It
45. Differing Opinions and Misunderstandings in the Movement
46. The Shop Stewards Movement and the Free Workers’ Center
47. Saul Yanovsky and Abe Cahan
48. The Struggle against the “Left” and Zionism
49. The Fraye Arbeter Shtime: Its Publishers and Staff
50. Our Movement: The Federation and Its Work
Part Four: The Great Depression and the Second World War
51. Prosperity and Crisis
52. I Am Relieved of My Editorship
53. The Sunrise Colony
54. The New Deal
55. Return to Stelton
56. The Dark Reaction
57. Back to the Future
Appendix
Anarchist-Communist Manifesto
Index
A propos de l’auteur
Esther Dolgoff (1905–1989) was a lifelong anarchist who was raised in Ohio and later settled in New York City with her husband, Sam. Dolgoff was a central figure of American anarchism her entire adult life.
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