Dreams of Nationhood: American Jewish Communists and the Soviet Birobidzhan Project, 1924-1951 by Srebrnik, Henry Felix

Dreams of Nationhood: American Jewish Communists and the Soviet Birobidzhan Project, 1924-1951 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781936235117)

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Dreams of Nationhood: American Jewish Communists and the Soviet Birobidzhan Project, 1924-1951 by Srebrnik, Henry Felix

Dreams of Nationhood: American Jewish Communists and the Soviet Birobidzhan Project, 1924-1951

$129.00
Dreams of Nationhood: American Jewish Communists and the Soviet Birobidzhan Project, 1924-1951 by Srebrnik, Henry Felix

Dreams of Nationhood: American Jewish Communists and the Soviet Birobidzhan Project, 1924-1951

$129.00
Format: Hardcover
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The American Jewish Communist movement played a major role in the politics of Jewish communities in cities such as Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia, as well as in many other centers, between the 1920s and the 1950s. Making extensive use of Yiddish-language books, newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, and other materials, Dreams of Nationhood traces the ideological and material support provided to the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan, located in the far east of the Soviet Union, by two American Jewish Communist-led organizations, the ICOR and the American Birobidzhan Committee. By providing a detailed historical examination of the political work of these two groups, the book makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of twentieth-century Jewish life in the United States.

Author: Henry Felix Srebrnik
ISBN-10: 1936235110
ISBN-13: 9781936235117
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2010
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2010 pg. 64
By Henry Felix Srebrnik
By Henry Felix Srebrnik
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Henry Srebrnik (PhD, University of Birmingham, England) is a Professor in the Department of Political Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. His most recent books include Jerusalem on the Amur: Birobidzhan and the Canadian Jewish Communist Movement, 1924-1951 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008) and London Jews and British Communism, 1935-1945 (London: Vallentine Mitchell, 1995) He also served on the editorial team for De Facto States: The Quest For Sovereignty (London: Routledge, 2004) with Tozun Bahcheli and Barry Bartmann.

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