Exporting Yiddish Socialism: New York's Role in the Russian Jewish Workers' Movement

Michels, Tony

doi:10.2979/jss.2009.16.1.1

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“…18 18 Besides, Jewish Socialists imported (Yiddish) sources from New York to Russia, contributing the development of Socialism among Yiddish speakers (Michels, 2009). …”

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How hybrid? Interethnic relationships within the self of Jewish Liberals in Tsarist Russia

Tsurumi

2022

Nations and Nationalism

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Ethnic/national hybridity can be defined as a combination of plural ethnic/national aspects within an individual's self. This article proposes five such types: fused, dissonant, alternating, contradictory and reciprocal. Among them, the least focused type—reciprocal—can be represented by Russian Jewish Liberals who were Russified but active in both Russian and Jewish milieus from the late 19th century until the early 1920s (after the Russian Revolution, exiled in Western Europe). In such people's selves, the Jewish and Russian aspects reinforced each other. They believed that Russia and Russians provided a stage on which Jews could fulfil their potential, such as economic roles as intermediaries, proliferators of Western knowledge and defenders of the legal order, any of which, in their view, Russia and Russians needed, and feel pride in their Jewishness. Thus, they tried to defend Russia in times of crisis. Comparison with other Russian Jewish trends such as Jews in the Mensheviks and Russian Zionism suggests that such Liberals would be an extreme case but that the Late Imperial Russian multiethnic/national milieu would have been likely to generate such a trend.

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“…18 18 Besides, Jewish Socialists imported (Yiddish) sources from New York to Russia, contributing the development of Socialism among Yiddish speakers (Michels, 2009). …”

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“…4-5).17 Solovyov expected Jews' future conversion to Christianity, but his relationships with his Jewish friends continued although they were aware of this(Howoritz, 2013, pp. 198-214).18 Besides, Jewish Socialists imported (Yiddish) sources from New York to Russia, contributing the development of Socialism among Yiddish speakers(Michels, 2009).…”

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How hybrid? Interethnic relationships within the self of Jewish Liberals in Tsarist Russia

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2022

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Als Wilna neben Buenos Aires lag: Die Transnationalität jüdischen Lebens am Rio de la Plata, 1904–1939

Wolff

2015

Migration – Religion – Identität. Aspekte Transkultureller Prozesse

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Eastern Europe Abroad: Exploring Actor-Networks in Transnational Movements and Migration History, The Case of the Bund

Wolff¹

2012

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SummaryThe “transnational turn” is one of the most discussed topics in historiography, yet it has inspired more theoretical tension than empirically saturated studies. This article combines both aspects by examining the transnational network formation of one of the most important social movements in late imperial Russia, the Jewish Labour Bund. It furthermore introduces into historiography one of the most fruitful theories in recent social sciences, “actor-network theory”. This opens the view on the steady recreation of a social movement and reveals how closely the history of the Bund in eastern Europe was interwoven with large socialist organizations in the New World. Based on a large number of sources, this contribution to migration and movement history captures the creation and the limits of global socialist networks. As a result, it shows that globalization did not only create economic or political networks but that it impacted the everyday lives of authors and journalists as well as those of tailors and shoemakers.

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Exporting Yiddish Socialism: New York's Role in the Russian Jewish Workers' Movement

Cited by 8 publications

References 21 publications

How hybrid? Interethnic relationships within the self of Jewish Liberals in Tsarist Russia

How hybrid? Interethnic relationships within the self of Jewish Liberals in Tsarist Russia

Als Wilna neben Buenos Aires lag: Die Transnationalität jüdischen Lebens am Rio de la Plata, 1904–1939

Eastern Europe Abroad: Exploring Actor-Networks in Transnational Movements and Migration History, The Case of the Bund

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