Radical Jewish Politics

Nathaniel Deutsch is Distinguished Professor of History and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of a number of award winning books, including The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement, for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.Alma Rachel Heckman is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of The Sultan’s Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging.Tony Michels is the George L. Mosse Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York, which won the Salo Baron Prize for Best First Book in Jewish Studies.

• Introduction: Global Radical Jewish Politics 1Nathaniel Deutsch, Alma Rachel Heckman,and Tony MichelsPA R T IThe MiddleEast and North Africa1 Radicalism, Emancipation, and Nationalism: The Story ofMoroccan Jewish Communists 31Alma Rachel Heckman2 "Yes, We Are Native Algerian Jews . . .": The Anti-ColonialistJews of Algeria, ca. 1920–1970 49Pierre-JeanLe Foll-Luciani(translated from the French byJane Teresa Kuntz)3 Between Gallicism and Communism: Jews and Politicsin Tunisia, 1881–1945 61Kamilia Rahmouni4 Communist Jews and Egypt's StruggleforNational Liberation 78Rami Ginat5 Subjugated Homeland, Unhappy People:Iraqi JewishCommunist Women,1941–1966 97Orit Bashkin6 The Roots of Jewish Radicalism in Iran 114Lior B. Sternfeld7 Panthers and Leashes: A History ofMizrahi Radicalism 135Dario MiccoliPA R T I IThe Americas,South Africa, and Asia8 A Centuryof Radical Jewish Politics in Argentina 151Nathaniel Deutsch9 Jewish Radicals in Twentieth-CenturyBrazil 168Michael Rom10 Jewish Radicals: The South African Experience 181Milton Shain and Richard Mendelsohn11 Radical Jewish Politics in the Key of Land, Language,and Labor:The Birobidzhan Project189Robert WeinbergPA RT I I IEastern Europeand the Balkans12 Lithuania and the Making of the Jewish Working Class 211Michael Casper13 Communists and Zionists in Hungary, 1945–1953 221Peter Kenez14 Jewish Radicalism Between Ottoman Socialism andGreek Communism, 1908–1936 234Kostis Karpozilos and Paris Papamichos ChronakisPA R T I VUnorthodox Radicalisms15 Jewish Anarchism 265Anna Elena Torres16 Politics of the Comparative Gaze: The Three Languagesof Right-WingZionist Radicalism 280Arie M. Dubnov17 MiddleEastern and North African Jews in the Irgunand Lehi in British Mandatory Palestine 307Avery WeinmanAcknowledgments331Notes on Contributors 333Index 000

"By foregrounding the experience of Jews in the modern Middle East and North Africa, this exciting volume recharts the historiography of radical Jewish politics on a global scale, presented in all of its drama, depth, and diversity." - Ilan Benattar, Robert F. & Patricia G. Ross Weis Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies & History, Franklin "Placing the Middle East and North Africa at its center, this important volume challenges conventional geographies and the conception of Jewish radicalism itself. It shows how colonialism, and in turn anticolonial movements, drove Jews to embrace radical politics as they navigated the rise of the nation state and their future in it." - Elizabeth E. Imber, author of Uncertain Empire: Jews, Nationalism, and the Fate of British Imperialism