Jews, Marxism and the Worker’s Movement
A collection of foundational Marxist texts on Jewish issues as well as materials from and about: the Jewish labor, socialist, and communist movements, Jews in the New Left, Bundism and Socialist Zionism, and left-wing writings on Anti-Semitism.
ANTI-SEMITISM
GENERAL WORKS
Anti-Semitism: Its Cause and Cure, Daniel De Leon 1903
Anti-Semitism Exposed! Plotting America's Pogroms, John L. Spivak 1934
The So-called "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" Isaac Goldberg 1936
Anti-Semitism and Yiddish Culture Moissaye J. Olgin
Anti-Semitism and Jewish Culture Moissaye J. Olgin
Anti-Semitism: What it Means and How to Combat It, William Gallacher, M.P. and Earl Browder 1943
Socialism Answers Anti-Semitism, Eric Hass 1944
Labor's Enemy: Anti-Semitism, Charles B. Sherman 1945
The Roots of Anti-Semitism, Morris U. Schappes 1946
Anti-Semitism: What to Do About It, New Masses 1946
Culture and Anti-Semitism, Morris U. Schappes 1947
Toward the Unmasking of Anti-Semitism, Morris U. Schappes 1948
Resistance is the Lesson. The Meaning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Morris U. Schappes 1948
Labor and Anti-Semitism, George Morris 1953
Bordiga’s “Auschwitz, or the Great Alibi”, with Commentary by Mitchell Abidor
The Roots of Antisemitism, Raya Dunayevskaya 1960
Anti-Semitism in the USA, Chaim Suller 1966
Anti-Semitism: the betrayal of Marx, Moshe Zedek 1971
Marx and the Economic-Jew Stereotype, Hal Draper 1977
Anti-Semitism & the Beirut Pogrom, Fredy Perlman 1983
Facing Up to Antisemitism. How Jews in Britain Countered the Threats of the 1930s , David Rosenberg 1985
Marxism and Anti-Semitism: Kautsky's Perspective, Jack Jacobs 1985
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DREYFUS CASE
Miscellaneous Articles and Commentary on the Dreyfus Case
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JEWISH LABOR MOVEMENT
IN THE UNITED STATES
Jewish Workers' Victory, Di Arbeiter Zeitung 1890
Samuel Gompers, Karl Kautsky 1909
From The New Review magazine (1913-1915):
The Garment Worker's Strike, Vol. 1, No. 3, January 18. 1913
The Garment Workers' Strike, Isaac A. Hourwich, Vol. 1, No. 14, April 5, 1913
Termination of the "Protocol", Isaac A. Hourwich, Vol. 3, No. 8, June 15, 1915
The Protocol "On Again", Isaac A. Hourwich, Vol. 3, No. 10, July 15, 1915
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"Colored and Jewish Workers" A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen 1920
The New Unionism in the Clothing Industry J.M. Budish and George Soule 1920
The Message of Internationalism [on solidarity with Soviet Russia] Benjamin Schlossberg 1922
Red Roses for Hillman Michael Gold 1922
From The Labor Herald magazine (1922-1924):
A Tale of Two Cities. The Conventions of the I.L.G.W.U. and A.C.W. of A. in Cleveland and Chicago J.B. Salutsky
The Program of the Needle Trades [from the First National Conference of the TUEL]
The Clothing Workers Stir Joseph Manley
Needle Trades Alliance vs Amalgamation Needle Trades Section of the TUEL
The Needle, Shoe and Leather, Textile and Eastern District Conferences William Z. Foster
T.U.E.L. Progress in the Needle Trades Joseph Zack
Reactionaries Smashing Ladies Garment Workers Earl Browder
Expulsions Please Clothing Bosses I.L. Davidson
The "New Unionism" of Sigman & Co. J.W. Johnstone
Reaction in the Needle Trades J.W. Johnstone
The Second Conference of the Needle Trade Workers I.L. Davidson
Ladies' Garment Workers in Struggle I.L. Davidson
The Needle Trades Convention J. W. Johnstone
Amalgamated Clothing Workers Resist Reaction Earl Browder
Socialist Reaction Rules Furriers S.C. Cohen
"Socialist" Union Wreckers Harrison George
Ferment in the Needle Trades A. Simon
From The Workers Monthly magazine (1925-1927):
Left-Wing Advances in the Needle Trades, Earl Browder
The Ladies Garment Workers Awaken, William Z. Foster
The Left Wing in the Needle Trades, William Z. Foster
The Left Wing at Two Conventions. I. The I.L.G.W.U. Convention, William F. Dunne
The Left Wing at Two Conventions. II. The Furriers' Convention, William Weinstone
The Furriers Strike - A Victory for the 40-hour Week, Ben Gitlow
The Struggle in the Needle Trades, William Z. Foster
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The Needle Trades Left Wing Program, TUEL 1926
A History of the Amalgamated Ladies' Garment Cutters Union, Local 10 James Oneal 1927
From Labor Unity magazine (1927-1928):
The Needle Trades, a Center of Struggle Joseph Zack, Secretary, Needle Trades Section, TUEL January 1927
A Showdown in the I.L.G.W.U. Hits Sigman Joseph Zack February 1927
Reactionaries of Needle Trades in Dire Straits
Sigman's Cossacks Joseph Zack April 1927
The Open Shop Drive in the Needle Trades Joseph Zack June 1, 1927
New York Furriers Go Over the Top Joseph Zack June 15, 1927
Notes on the Furriers Strike Jack Harvey June 15, 1927
Struggle in Ladies Garment Union is Reaching Climax - Rose Wortis October 1927
Amalgamated Efficiency Unionism Louis Hyman March 1928
Late Developments in the Needle Trades Phil Aronberg June 1928
New Needle Trades Unions September 1928
The Garment Workers Struggle Enters an Organization Phase H. Koretz September 1928
One Needle Trades Union December 1928
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Who Are the Murderers? The ring of racketeers in the fur industry exposed, Ben Gold 1933
Fur Workers - Condemn A Shameful Provocation!, March 1934
The Effects of the New Deal on Jewish Labor, V. Charney Vladeck 1934
Structure and Functioning of the I.L.G.W.U., 1934
The Labor Movement and the NRA (The Standpoint of Progressive Unionism), [presentation to the 22nd ILGWU Convention on behalf of Dressmakers Local 22] Charles S. Zimmerman 1934
Communists in the Textile Strike. An Answer to Gorman, Green & Co. C. A. Hathaway 1934
The Clothing Workers. A Study of the Conditions and Struggles in the Needle Trades, Jack Hardy 1935
A History of the Chicago Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Wilfred Carsel 1940
The Case Against David Dubinsky, William Weinstone 1946
The Jewish Labor Movement in the United States, J. C. Rich 1948
We Ask Justice for Our Union Leaders!, International Fur and Leather Workers Union 1948
Socialist Traditions of Jewish Labor, Morris U. Schappes 1950
Jewish Labor in the Nineties, Morris U. Schappes 1950
History of a Militant Union, [the International Fur and Leather Workers Union] Morris U. Schappes 1950
ILGWU News-History, 1900-1950. A Chronicle of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, Done in the Manner of a Newspaper Comprised Chiefly of Accounts and Illustrations Drawn from Contemporary Sources, Prepared and Edited by the Staff of Justice, the Official Publication of the I.L.G.W.U., 1950
The Jewish Labor Movement in the United States, Will Herberg 1951
David Dubinsky: A Pictorial Biography, John Dewey 1951
What's Happening to Ladies' Garment Workers?, Part I, Part II, Part III, Rachael Roth 1953
Jews and the American Labor Movement, 1850-1880, Morris U. Schappes 1954
The Heroic Period of Jewish Labor, 1909-1914, Morris U. Schappes 1955
World War I and the Jewish Masses, Morris U. Schappes 1955
The Attitude of Jewish Labor to World War I, 1917-1918, Morris U. Schappes 1955
The Jews and Post-War Reaction After 1918, Morris U. Schappes 1955
The Thirties - And the Jewish Masses, Morris U. Schappes 1955
Jewish Labor in the United States, Will Herberg 1955
The Jewish Labor Movement in America. Two Views, Israel Knox, Irving Howe 1958
The Jewish Labor Movement: A Living Legacy, Gus Tyler 1966
The ILGWU: A Union That Fights for Lower Wages, Michael Myerson
Ben Gold: Unforgettable Labor Leader Max Perlow
Five Who Led. A Tribute to Five Jewish Labor Leaders, Jewish Labor Committee 1977
The Roots of Jewish Labor: Will the Vision Be Renewed?, Paul Buhle 1983
The First Jewish Trade Union Kalman Marmor
The Arbiter Ring, the Growth and Decline of the Socialist Labor Movement in the Pittsburgh Jewish Community 1904-1947, Leon B. Scoratow 1997
Writing the World of Our Fathers and Mothers: The Fall and Rise of American Jewish Labor History, Susan Roth Breitzer 2011
sweating for Democracy. Workingclass Media and the Struggle for Hegemonic Jewishness, 1919-1941, Brian Craig Dolber 2011
Visions of a Jewish Future: the Jewish Bakers Union and Yiddish Culture in East Los Angeles, 1908-1942, Caroline Elizabeth Luce 2013
Jews, Labor, and Local Politics in New York City Daniel Soyer 2013
SHTARKER; The Convergence of Organized Crime and Organized Labor in New York Garment Industry, 1920-1940, David Yee 2014
Servants of Two Masters: The Dilemma of Grassroots Communist Leaders in the Cloakmakers' Strike of 1926, Jonathan Michaels
A Short History of Jews in the American Labor Movement, Bennett Muraskin
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IN PALESTINE
The Jewish Labour Movement in Palestine. Its Aims and Achievements, Poale Zion 1928
Revolutionary Constructivism. Essays on the Jewish Labor Movement in Palestine, Berl Katznelson 1937
The Histadrut. A Labour Commonwealth in the Making, Abraham Revusky 1938
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IN OTHER COUNTRIES
The Jewish Labor Movement and European Socialism, Moshe Mishkinsky 1968
Jewish Labor in Interwar Poland Jack Jacobs 2013
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JEWISH SOCIALIST ANTECEDENTS
MOSES HESS
Historical Works
Karl Marx and Moses Hess, Sidney Hook 1934
The Life and Opinions of Moses Hess, Isaiah Berlin
Moses Hess, First of Modern Zionists, David Flakser [Israel Horizons] March 1962
Hess: Forerunner of Socialist Zionism, David Flakser [Israel Horizons] May 1962
Selected Works
Rome and Jerusalem. A Study in Jewish Nationalism, 1862
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BERNARD LAZARE
Jewish Solidarity, 1890.
Jews and Israelites, 1890.
Antisemitism: Its History and Causes, 1894.
Jewish Nationalism, 1898.
Anti-Semitism and Revolution, 1899.
The Social Conception of Judaism and the Jewish People, 1900
Writings on the Dreyfus case:
How to Condemn An Innocent Man
France at the Parting of the Ways
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THE CLASSICS: MARX, LENIN, TROTSKY, BOROCHOV
KARL MARX
On the Jewish Question, 1844
The Holy Family, 1845
Karl Marx and the Jewish Question, Louis Harap, Jewish Currents 1959
Marx and the Economic-Jew Stereotype, Hal Draper 1977
Marx and the Jewish Question: A Response to Julius Carlebach, Gary Ruchwarger 1979
Eleanor Marx: ’I Am a Jewess’, Henry R. Rosenthal
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V. I. LENIN
To the Organizing Committee, 1903
The Position of the Bund in the Party, 1903
Does the Jewish Proletariat Need an "Independent Political Party"?, 1903
To The Jewish Workers, 1905
The Nationalisation of Jewish Schools, 1913
"National-Cultural" Autonomy, 1913
Anti-Jewish Pogroms, 1919.
Lenin on the Jewish Question, 1934
What Lenin Said About the Jews, Andrew Rothstein
Lenin and the Jewish Question, Ben Joseph [A.B. Magil], Jewish Currents 1970
When Lenin Fought Anti-Semitism, Ruvim Groyer 1972
Books About Jews In Lenin’s Library G. Fraind
Lenin on the Jewish Question: The Theoretical Setting, Yoav Peled 1987
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LEON TROTSKY
Report of the Siberian delegation, 1903
The Problem of Nationalities, from Trotsky’s “History of the Russian Revolution.”
The White Guards, 1919 (concerns anti-semitism of the White Army)
Thermidor and Anti-Semitism, 1938
On the Jewish Problem, 1937-40
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DOV BER BOROCHOV
Background Materials
The Theories of Ber Borochov and Their Place in the History of the Jewish Labor Movement, Abraham G. Duker 1937
Ber Borochov. Selected Essays in Socialist Zionism, S. Levenberg 1948
Borochov for Our Day. The Socialist-Zionist View of the Jewish People, Richard Yaffe, editor 1958
Borochovism, Moshe Zedek 1971
Ber Borochov. Towards a Portrait of a Socialist Zionist, Mitchell Cohen 1977
Selected Works
The National Question and the Class Struggle, 1905
The Question of Zion and Territory, 1905
Our Platform, 1906
Anti-Zionist Front, 1911
Difficulties of Poale Zion, 1913
Hebraismus Militans, 1913
Two Currents in Poale Zionism, 1915
National Helplessness versus National Self-Help, 1915
The Economic Development of the Jewish People, 1916
Nationalism and the World War, 1916
Reminiscences, 1916
The Terrorist and the Shomer, 1916
The Jubilee of the Jewish Labor Movement, 1916
Poalei Tziyon Peace Manifesto, 1917
Eretz Yisrael in Our Program and Tactics, 1917
Facing Reality, 1917
A. Lieberman: Father of Jewish Socialism, 1917
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THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL
HISTORICAL WORKS
The Jewish Labor Movement in Russia and Poland (from the 1870's to the founding of the Bund in 1897), Abraham Menes 1948
The Jewish Labor Movement in Russia and Poland (1897-1919), Raphael H. Abramovitch 1948
The Jewish Labor Movement and European Socialism, Moshe Mishkinsky 1968
Jewish Socialism in Eastern Europe: An Annotated Bibliography, Daniel Soyer 1980
Avraam Benaroya and the Impossible Reform, [on Jewish socialism in Salonika] Spyros Marketos 1999
The Tradition of Jewish Anti-Zionism in the Galician Socialist Movement, Rick Kuhn 2002
Jewish Socialism in Ottoman Salonica, H. Sükrü Ilicak 2002
Empire, Nationalism and the Jewish Question: Victor Adler and Otto Bauer, Wolfgang Maderthaner 2015
Tsum Folk Vel Ikh Fund Keyver Zingen: I Will Sing to the People from the Grave: The Emotions of Protest in the Songs of Dovid Edelshtat, John Samuel Lorber 2015
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KARL KAUTSKY
On the Problems of the Jewish Proletariat in England, 1904
Foundations of Christianity, 1908
Samuel Gompers, 1909
Marxism and Anti-Semitism: Kautsky's Perspective, Jack Jacobs 1985
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JEWISH WORKERS' BUND
Background Materials
The Martyrdom of Hirsch Lekert, Sholom Levine 1948
Bund, Galuth Nationalism, Yiddishism, C. Bezalel Sherman 1958
A Great Collection. The Archives of the Jewish Labor Movement, 1965
The Last Battles of Old World Ideology in the Race for Identity and Communal Power: Communists vs. Bundists vs. Zionists in Mexico, 1938-1951, Adina Cemet-Singer 1967
The Jewish Bund Revisited, Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Louis Harap 1974
Folkszeitung, a Jewish Socialist daily, J.S. Hertz [from The Jewish Press That Was] 1980
Bundism and Terrorism: The Hirsch Leckert Affair Leizer Janklewicz, Shmate, Vol. 1. No. 4 January 1983
Book Review: A Soviet Version of Bundist Histor, Harry Shukman 1985
Six Million and One. The Life and Death of Szmul Zygielbojm, Barry Smerin, Jewish Socialist #2 Summer 1985
Beneath Gathering Clouds [the Bund in Poland] Majer Bogdanski, Jewish Socialist #3 Autumn 1985
Bundism in England Benjamin Nadel, Jewish Socialist #6/7 Summer/Autumn 1986
An Interview with Victor Erlich Burton Levine, Shmate, Vol. 1. No. 14 Winter 1986
A Revolution in Jewish Life. The History of the Jewish Workers' Bund, Clive Gilbert 1987
The Bund - Like All the Jews, With All the Jews , Matitiahu Minc 1989
Purged from history [on the murders of Erlich and Alter] Majer Bogdanski, Jewish Socialist #24 October-December 1991
Socialist Mass Politics through Sport: The Bund's Morgnshtern in Poland, 1926-1939, Roni Gechtman 1999
Was the Jewish Labor Bund in Czarist Russia a "National Movement"?, Joshua Zimmerman 2003
National-Cultural Autonomy and 'Neutralism': Vladimir Medem's Marxist Analysis of the National Question, 1903-1920, Roni Gechtman 2007
Historiography on the General Jewish Labor Bund. Traditions, Tendencies and Expectations, Frank Wolff 2009
Eastern Europe Abroad: Exploring Actor-Networks in Transnational Movements and Migration History. The Case of the Bund, Frank Wolff 2012
The rise and fall of the Jewish Labour Bund, Sai Englert 2012
"Brothers and Sisters of Work and Need": The Bundist Newspaper Unzer Tsayt and its Role in New York City, 1941-1944, Saul Hankin 2013
A Party of Naysayers: The Jewish Labor Bund after the Holocaust, David Slucki 2013
Relations between the Bund and the Polish Socialist Party from a micro-historical perspective: Tarnow in the interwar period, Agnieszka Wierzcholska 2013
The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Labor Bund, Philip Mendes 2013
Between Socialism and Jewish Tradition: Bundist Holiday Culture in Interwar Poland, Daniel Mahla
Lost Worlds of Labour: Paul Olberg, the Jewish Labour Bund, and Menshevik Socialism, Håkan Blomqvist
Primary Works
Emigration and Immigration. A Report to the International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart, 1907 Boris Frumkin 1907
Report from the Delegate in the Emigration Commission at the International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart Shimon Ginzburg 1907
By K. Boris:
The Jewish Proletariat in Russia – Ten Years of the Bund, October 1907
The Electoral Manifesto of the Jewish “Bund” , October 1907
4,000 Stocking Workers in Wilno and Witebsk (Russia) on Strike, May 1908
May Day in Russia. Manifesto of the “Bund.”, May 1908
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On Terror Vladimir Medem 1918
The Struggle for Revolutionary Socialism Heinrich Ehrlich 1934
Stop Them Now. German Mass Murder of Jews in Poland Szmul Zygielbojm 1942
Zygielbojm's Last Letters Jewish Socialist #35 Spring 1996
The Murder of Heinrich Erlich and Victor Alter is a Blow Against the Soviet Union 1943
Murder As A Political Weapon Albert Glotzer 1943
Protest Ehrlich-Alter Murder Susan Green 1943
The Ghetto Speaks, 1943-1944
Jewish Labor Bund Bulletin, 1947-1953
The Position of the Bund on the Creation of the State of Israel, 1947-1948
Statement on Palestine and Zionism Issued by the New York Bund Organization 1947
Statement of the Jewish Socialist Organization in England, August 1947
Jewish Labor Bund and the Jewish-Arab War in Palestine April 1948
The State of Israel June 1948
The Jewish Labor Bund and the State of Israel Statement of the Executive of the Bund World Coordinating Committee June 1948
Truce in Palestine July 1948
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The Bund, Emanuel Scherer 1954
Jewish Labor Bund, 1897-1957 1958
Perspectives, Issue #1, Winter 1964
The Other Way, Issue #1, Spring 1971
For the rights of Jews in the USSR. Statement of the Co-ordinating Committee of the Bund on recent changes in the Soviet Union and their impact on Soviet Jews, Jewish Socialist, #12 Winter/Spring 1988
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SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY, USA
Anti-Semitism and the A.P.A., Daniel De Leon 1894
Plain Words to Boston Workingmen, Jew and Gentile, Daniel De Leon 1897
Butchers and Anti-Semitism, Daniel De Leon 1899
The "City of Zion", Daniel De Leon 1902
Anti-Semitism: Its Cause and Cure, Daniel De Leon 1903
The Bluff Called, Daniel De Leon 1904
The Garment Workers' Strike, Daniel De Leon 1913
Vampire Cahan, Daniel De Leon 1913
Socialism Answers Anti-Semitism, Eric Hass 1944
Daniel DeLeon, "Wandering Jew" of American Socialism: An Interpretive Analysis, L. Glen Seretan 1976
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SOCIALIST PARTY, USA
Historical Works
Abraham Cahan and the "Forward", Paul Novick 1951
Yiddish Speaking Socialists in America, 1892-1905, Bernard H. Bloom 1960
Yiddish Socialism: The Early Years, Paul Buhle 1977
Primary Works
Abraham Cahan: Socialist, Journalist, Friend of the Ghetto, Ernest Poole 1911
Report Submitted in Behalf of the Jewish Socialist Agitation Bureau to the Socialist Party National Convention, Jacob Panken May 1912
Report of the Jewish Translator-Secretary to the National Committee of the Socialist Party of America, J. B. Salutsky May 1913
Abraham Cahan, William M. Feigenbaum 1918
Meyer London Urges Workmen's Circle to Support President, 1918
A Dream No Longer, Abraham Cahan 1918
The Jew and American Ideals, John Spargo 1921
Jewish Group in Party Will Convene Today, 1921
Jewish Group Seats Enemies of Party Unity, 1921
Loyal Jewish Socialists Quit Seceding Body, 1921
New Alliance is Created by Jewish Group, 1921
Can We Work for Socialism Outside the Socialist Party?, William M. Feigenbaum 1921
Cahan Says the Forward Supports the Party: Editor of Great Jewish Daily, Back from Europe, Declares Seceders Will be Fought - Praises Germans and Scores Communists Abroad,William M. Feigenbaum 1921
The Vanguard, A Monthly Magazine of Progressive Jewish Life, 1927-1928
What the Workmen's Circle is Doing for its Unemployed Members , P. Geliebter 1931
Anti-Semitism in Italy, Angelica Balabanoff 1938
British Policy in Palestine, Bezalel Sherman 1939
Baruch Charney Vladeck, John Herling 1940
Songs of Freedom, Workmen's Circle 1975
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SOCIALISM IN GREAT BRITAIN
Jews, Boers and Patriots, II, Belfort Bax 1899
B.S.P. In East London, Fineberg 1913
Jewish Social-Democrats and Zionism, 1918
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SOCIALIST ZIONISM
GENERAL HISTORICAL WORKS
The Life and Death of Socialist Zionism, Jason Schulman 2003
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HASHOMER HATZAIR/MAPAM
Historical Works
Be Strong and Brave! A small youth movement in a sea of history. The Hashomer Hatzair Antwerp (1920-1948) , Janiv Stamberger 2013
Primary Works
Comintern Dances Into Pact, [on the Hitler-Stalin pact] 1939
The Path I Follow, Moshe Sneh 1948
Critique of United Workers Party Platform, Esther Valenska 1948
Interview with Dr. Sneh, L. Bruck 1949
Peace Front in Israel, 1950
Who Threatens Israeli Independence?, Moshe Sneh 1950
Outlook for Mapam, Freie Yisroel 1950
Editorial: The Prague Trial, [on the Slansky case] Israel Horizons January 1953
Al Hamishmar Editorial: "We Will Be Faithful to Our Vision", [on the Slansky case] Israel Horizons January 1953
Editorial: With Jewish Responsibility, [on Soviet anti-Zionism] Israel Horizons February 1953
Editorial: The Break in Soviet-Israel Relations, Israel Horizons March 1953
Israel Is In Danger, Moshe Sneh March 1953
Sneh's Defection from MAPAM, Israel Horizons March 1953
The Logic of Our Time, Meir Yaari [reply to Sneh] Israel Horizons March and April 1953
Socialist Theory and Jewish Territorial Concentration, Peretz Merhav Israel Horizons April 1953
What Faces Our Generation, Meir Yaari [Theses for MAPAM's Third Convention] 1957
Borochov for Our Day. The Socialist-Zionist View of the Jewish People, Richard Yaffe, editor 1958
B.Z. Goldberg's "Jewish Problem in the Soviet Union" [book review], Israel Horizons March 1962
Thoughts on the Soviet Jewish Position, Avraham Schenker, Israel Horizons April 1962
Ten Years Later, [on the murder of Soviet Jewish cultural leaders] B. Z. Goldberg, Israel Horizons October 1962
Background Material on the United Workers Party of Israel MAPAM, 1962
From Vision to Reality, Meir Yaari [Preparatory Theses for the 4th MAPAM Party Congress] 1963
Political Resolutions of the 4th MAPAM Party Congress, 1963
MAPAM, 1965
Israel 1968: On the Road to Socialism, Meir Yaari [for the 5th MAPAM Party Congress] 1968
The U.S. Communist Party Cracks the Whip, Israel Horizons 1969
What It Took to Make the Alignment, Dan Leon Israel Horizons 1969
The New Left, Israel and the Jewish People, Avraham Schenker Israel Horizons 1969
The Reality of American Jewry, [a Borochovist analysis of the American Jewish scene] Judd Teller Israel Horizons 1969
The Expulsion of Israel From the UN – What Purpose Would It Serve?
Profile of MAPAM, April 1984
MAPAM: The Middle East, International Affairs, June 1985
Young MAPAM: Program for the '80s, August 1985
MAPAM: Economic Program, The Middle East, International Affairs, January 1986
A Nation Under Siege: Nicaragua's Struggle for Survival, Avraham Rozenkier January 1986
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POALE ZION (WORKERS OF ZION)
Poale Zionism: An Outline of Its Aims and Institutions, H. Fineman 1918
The Aims of Jewish Labor. Memorandum to the Socialist and Labor Democracy of the World, The Jewish Socialist Labor Party Poale-Zion of America 1918
Zionism and Socialism, Lewis Rifkind 1918
The Jewish Labour Movement in Palestine. Its Aims and Achievements, 1928
Essays on Socialist Zionism, Dr. Nachman Syrkin 1935
The Communists and the Arab Problem, Marie Syrkin n.d. [mid-1930s]
Revolutionary Constructivism. Essays on the Jewish Labor Movement in Palestine, Berl Katznelson 1937
Three Centuries of Growth. The American Jewish Community Today, C. Bezalel Sherman 1954
Bund, Galuth Nationalism, Yiddishism, C. Bezalel Sherman 1958
Periodicals of the Zionist Left, Moshe Erem [from The Jewish Press That Was] 1980
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THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL
GENERAL HISTORICAL MATERIALS
Joseph Berger (1904-1978): The Comintern's and Münzenberg's Expert on Middle Eastern Affairs
East German Communists and the Jewish Question. The Case of Paul Merker Jeffrey Herf 1994
The Soviet Union and the Creation of the State of Israel, Prof. Gabriel Gorodetsky 2001
Moscow's Surprise: The Soviet-Israeli Alliance of 1947-1949, Laurent Rucker
Under the Red Banner. Yiddish Culture in the Communist Countries in the Postwar Era, Edited by Elvira Grözinger and Magdalena Ruta 2008
Jewish Communists in Paris between Local and International, Gerben Zaagsma 2009
Jewish National Communist Parties and the Comintern: A Non-Mutual Association, Serhiy Hirik 2013
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THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND THE SOVIET UNION
Jewish Massacres and the Revolutionary Movement in Russia, Abraham Cahan 1903
From Emma Goldman's [“My Disillusionment in Russia” (Concerns fate of Jews in the Ukraine during the Civil War)]:
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels An Introduction to Their Lives and Work, Chapter 2, by David Riazanov 1927 (Discusses contribution of Jews to the formation of Communism).
Where the Ghetto Ends. Jews in Soviet Russia, Leon Dennen 1934
The Jewish Problem in the Soviet Union. An Analysis and a Solution, B.Z. Goldberg 1961
B.Z. Goldberg's "Jewish Problem in the Soviet Union" [book review], Israel Horizons March 1962
Critical Look at B.Z. Goldberg's Book, Louis Harap 1962
"Judaism Without Embellishment", [on the Kichko book] Jews in Eastern Europe 1964
The Soviet Book that shook the Communist World, [on the Kichko book] 1964
Jews in the Soviet Union, Solomon Rabinovich 1967
Caution Zionism!, Yuri Ivanov 1970
Zionism: Instrument of Imperialist Reaction, 1970
Anti-Semitism and the Soviet Anti-Zionist Campaign, Dave Davies 1980
Israel as a Factor in Soviet Anti-Semitism, Umberto Terracini 1984
From Soviet Jewry and Human Rights by Isi Leibler (2008) :
Reaction to Anti-Jewish Discrimination by Communists and Progressives Since 1958
Australian Communists, Progressives and Soviet Jewry
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THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL
Appeal from the Executive Committee of the Communist International to the Workers of the Union of Jewish Communists (Poale Zion) Bulletin of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, #2 September 20, 1921
Appeal from the Executive Committee of the Communist International to the Members of the All-Jewish Workers Union ("The Bund") in Poland Bulletin of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, #2 September 20, 1921
On the Jewish Question, Frumkina at the Second Congress of the Communist International, 1920
Discussion of Poale Zion at the 4th Comintern Congress, 1922
Communism and the Jewish Question in Germany, The Communist, May 1933
Speech by Ridwan al Hilw (Yusuf), the Palestinian Delegate, to the 7th Comintern Congress, 1935
The Fighting in Palestine, Communist International January 1939
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JEWS AND THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
The Naftali Botwin Company, Mitch Abidor
Against Fascism - Jews who served in The International Brigade in The Spanish Civil War, Martin Sugarman
Jews in the International Brigades, Albert Prago 1979
Jewish Currents Readers' Forum on Jews in International Brigades, Alvah Bessie, Albert Prago, Morris U. Schappes 1980
Jewish Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: An Oral History John Gerassi, Shmate, Vol. 1. No. 5 April 1983
No Pasaran [Jews in the Spanish civil war] Mike Gerber, Jewish Socialist #6/7 Summer/Autumn 1986
Jewish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. A case study of the Botwin company, Gerben Zaagsma 2001
Fighting for What?: Why Jewish Palestinian Volunteers Made Their Way to Spain, Rotem Herrmann 2012
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COMMUNIST PARTY, USA
General Historical Materials
The Jew and Communism. The Story of Early Communist Victories and Ultimate Defeats in the Jewish Community, U.S.A. 1919-1941, Melech Epstein 1959
Commitment and Crisis: Jews and American Communism, Tony Michels
A Voice on the Jewish Left, [on the Morning Freiheit] Arthur J. Saban 1987
Red Paradise: A Long Life in the San Diego Communist Movement, Toby Terrar
What We Did: The American Jewish Communist Left and the Establishment of the State of Israel, Dorothy M. Zellner
Portraits of Individual Jewish Communist Leaders
M. J. Olgin: Leader and Teacher, staff of Morning Freiheit 1939
From Melech Epstein's The Jew and Communism:
Kalmen Marmor, His Communism Was a Puzzle
A. Bittelman, More Politician than Theoretician
Israel Amter, A Saintly Communist
Jack Stachel, The Organization Man
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Paul Novick: In Sorrow and Pride, Morris U. Schappes 1989
Early Struggles in the Jewish Communist Movement, 1922
Letter to the Bureau of the Jewish Federation, CPA from Abram Jakira, Secretary of the CPA, 1922
Administrative Council Outlines Negotiations with Jewish Bureau, States Present Position, 1922
Cable to the Workers Party of America in New York from Grigorii Zinoviev in Moscow, 1922
Comrades of the Jewish Federation! Stand by the Party, 1922
All Party Federations Condemn Breach of Discipline by Jewish Federation Bureau, 1922
Jewish Federation United: Statement to the Party by the Administrative Council, 1922
The CPUSA and the Jewish Question
The Struggle Against Anti-Semitism: A Program of Action for American Jewry, J. Soltin 1938
The Jewish People and the War, Earl Browder 1940
Jews in Action. Five Years of the Jewish Peoples Committee, 1941
Jewish Unity for Victory, Alexander Bittelman 1943
Should Jews Unite? Jewish People's Unity as a Force for American National Unity, Alexander Bittelman 1944
The Jew and His Culture, Nathan Ausubel 1945
Program for Survival: The Communist Position on the Jewish Question, Alexander Bittelman 1946
It's Happening in New York: Anti-Semitism Must be Stopped, John Arnold and Leon Harris 1947
To Secure Jewish Rights: The Communist Position, Alexander Bittelman 1947
Jewish Culture in America: Weapon for Jewish Survival and Progress, Nathan Ausubel 1948
Problems of Jewish Culture, Morris U. Schappes 1950
For A United Front Policy Among the Jewish People – Sharpen the Struggle Against Bourgeois Nationalism, John Williamson 1950
Jewish Life in the United States and the role of the "Morning Freiheit", Paul Novick 1957
Jews in the U.S.A., Paul Novick 1960
Jews in the U.S.A. and the role of the Jewish Press, Paul Novick 1962
Assimilation and the Jewish People, Paul Novick 1964
CPUSA Discussion on the Jewish Question, 1966-1967
Draft Resolution on the Jewish Question [for the the 18th National Convention, CPUSA] 1966
Nihilism, Bourgeois Nationalism and Assimiliation Paul Novick 1966
Yiddish Culture in West and East Judah Waton 1966
The Fight Against Anti-Semitism Hyman Lumer 1966
On the Draft Resolution Abe Strauss 1966
The Draft Resolution: Some Negative Aspects Irving Potash 1966
Comments on the Resolution Daniel Rubin 1966
The Fight Against Anti-Semitism, Part 2 Hyman Lumer 1967
Arab Chauvinism: A Reactionary Ideology Sid Resnick 1967
A Critical View of Waton on Yiddish Morris Serrof 1967
Further Probing Needed Jack Kling 1967
The Jewish Community Is A Reality D.N. 1967
On the Discussion and Conference on the Jewish Question National Secretariat, CPUSA 1967
Proposals for Improvement A. B. 1967
Some Criticisms A Midwest Friend 1967
Setting the Record Straight Judah Waton 1967
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Resolution on Work Among the Jewish People Adopted by the 21st National Convention, CPUSA 1972
Jewish-American Section, International Workers Order
The First Convention of the International Workers' Order, R. Saltzman 1931
Notes on the History of the Jewish American Section of the International Workers Order, R. Saltzman 1944
The English Speaking Jew and the Jewish-American Section, George Starr 1944
Towards Unity and Victory, R. Saltzman 1944
Post-War Jewish Problems, B. Z. Goldberg 1944
The Jewish Fraternalist, February-March 1950
Fighting Anti-Semitism and Jim Crow: "Negro-Jewish Unity" in the International Workers Order, Jennifer Young 2014
The CPUSA on Jews in the Socialist Countries
Jews in the Soviet Union, Joshua Kunitz 1934
The New Jew in the Soviet Union, Paul Novick 1947
Jews in the Soviet Union, Paul Novick and J. M. Budish 1948
The Truth About Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, Tom O'Connor 1948
Soviet Anti-Semitism: The Big Lie!, Moses Miller 1948
The Truth About the Prague Trial, Louis Harap 1953
The Jewish Problem in the USSR/On Trials and Purges, Joshua Kunitz and editors of Monthly Review 1953
Stalin and the Jewish People, [on Stalin's death] Louis Harap 1953
1956: US Communists React to Confirmation of the Destruction of Soviet Jewish Leaders and Institutions Under Stalin
What Happened to Soviet Jewish Culture? The first authentic statement and our comments, editors, Jewish Life 1956
Jewish Life reader responses to “What Happened to Soviet Jewish Culture?”
Letter to the editors of Jewish Life: Why Were They Silent?
Review and Reappraisal. Why did we fail to perceive and protest crimes against Jewish culture and leaders in the socialist countries?, editors, Jewish Life 1956
From Jewish Life readers on our June editorial
Toward Revival of Soviet Jewish Culture, editors, Jewish Life 1956
Soviet Jews: Latest Eyewitness Report, by Louis Harap 1956
Questions for Soviet Leaders, editors, Jewish Life 1956
A Memo to Soviet Leaders, various authors 1956
Letter to Jewish Life from Sid Resnick
Reply to Sid Resnick on the Bund Louis Harap
Talks with Soviet Leaders on the Jewish Question, J. B. Salsberg 1957
Jewish Problems in New Poland, Dr. David Sfard 1957
Views on Soviet Yiddish Culture, Jeremiah Lesser 1957
Approaches to Zionism, Paul Novick 1957
CP Resolution on Jews in the USSR, 1957
Soviet-Australian Letters on Jews of the USSR. An exchange of opinions on current Soviet policy, 1957
The "Soviet Encyclopedia" Article on "Jews", M. Mirski Jewish Life, 1957
Soviet Jewish Cultural Revival – A Year Later, Chaim Suller 1957
Levy's Book on the Soviet Jewish Question, Louis Harap 1958
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The Truth About Jews in the Soviet Union, Sofia Frey 1960
The Fraud of "Soviet Anti-Semitism", Herbert Aptheker 1962
"Soviet Anti-Semitism": The Kichko Book, editors, Political Affairs 1964
"Soviet Anti-Semitism": The Status of Soviet Jews, editors, Political Affairs 1964
"Soviet Anti-Semitism": A Cold War Myth, Hyman Lumer 1964
A Proper Approach to the National Question [in response to the Political Affairs editorials], Paul Novick 1965
Marxism and Assimilation, [response to Paul Novick] Hyman Lumer 1965
Jews in the Soviet Union, Paul Novick 1965
What Happened in Poland, Hyman Lumer 1969
"Saving Soviet Jews", Forence Fox 1986
U.S. Communists and Biro-bidjan
Report of the American ICOR Commission for the Study of Biro-bidjan and Its Colonization, 1929
The "Icor" and the Jewish Colonization in the U.S.S.R., A Rovner 1934
Nailebn (New Life), December 1936
10 Years of Biro-bidjan, S. Almazov 1938
Hitler or Stalin?, Chaim Zhitlovsky 1938
I Jewish State Rises in Birobidjan, J.M. Budish 1947
Birobidjan – The End of the Dream, Paul Novick 1984
Birobidjan: 50th Anniversary of a Tragedy, Paul Novick 1985
The CPUSA on Zionism and Palestine/Israel
Brown Shirts in Zion. Jabotinsky – The Jewish Hitler, Robert Gessner 1935
Zionism Today, Paul Novick 1936
Palestine Under the Britian's Heel, Alter Brody 1936
On the Communist Approach to Zionism, J. Sultan 1936
Zionism, Earl Browder 1936
Palestine: The Communist Position, Paul Novick 1936
Palestine – Land of Anti-Imperialist Struggle, Paul Novick 1936
The Meaning of the Palestine Partition, Earl Browder, John Arnold, CPGB 1937
Peace by Understanding. A Communist Rejects the Partition of Palestine, Paul Novick 1938
A Solution for Palestine, Paul Novick 1938
Solution for Palestine. The Chamberlain White Paper, Paul Novick 1939
Zionism and the Imperialist War, Paul Novick 1940
Light on Palestine, Moses Miller 1946
Crisis in Palestine, Moses Miller 1946
Terror in the Promised Land, Moses Miller 1946
Palestine: What Is the Solution?, Alexander Bittelman 1946
Crossroads in Palestine, R. S. Gordon 1947
Palestine: A Solution, Charles S. Abrams 1947
A Democratic Solution for Palestine, Alexander Bittelman July 1947
Palestine: Two Plans, John Stuart 1947
New Tasks and Realignments in the Struggle for the Jewish State in Palestine, Alexander Bittelman December 1947
Wall Street Sells Out the Jewish State, Alexander Bittelman 1948
The New State of Israel, Alexander Bittelman 1948
Class Forces in Israel's Fight for Independence, A. B. Magil 1949
Jerusalem, National Independence and Peace, Alexander Bittelman July 1950
Israel in Crisis, A. B. Magil 1950
What Program for U.S. Zionism?, Louis Harap 1952
Israel and Dollar Diplomacy, Victor Perlo 1953
Which Way Israel?, A. B. Magil 1956
Which Way Israel?, Hyman Lumer 1966
The Middle East Crisis, Hyman Lumer 1967
Arabs and Israelis: The Broken Peace, Tom Foley 1967
War and Peace in the Middle East, 1967
Israel Today: War or Peace?, Hyman Lumer 1970
The Middle East: Which Way to Peace?, Herbert Aptheker 1971
Israel: Image and Reality, Carl Bloice 1973
Zionism: Its Role in World Politics, Hyman Lumer 1973
Zionism – Is It Racist? Two Statements on the UN Resolution, Hyman Lumer, Meir Vilner 1975
The CPUSA – Morning Freiheit/Jewish Currents Split
Background Materials
The Communist Party, U.S.A. in Crisis, Lucy S. Dawidowicz 1956
The U.S. Communist Party Cracks the Whip, Israel Horizons 1969
Primary Materials
War and Peace in the Middle East, Paul Novick, Moshe Sneh et al 1967
The Jewish Question and the Left – Old and New. A Challenge to the New Left Morris U. Schappes 1969
The Jewish Problem in Poland Paul Novick 1969
How the Job Was Done in Poland, Yudel Korman, Jewish Currents 1970
The National and Jewish Question in the Light of Reality Paul Novick, 1970
Lenin and the Jewish Question, Ben Joseph [A.B.Magil], Jewish Currents 1970
The Morning Freiheit's "Balanced" Approach Joseph Levy, Jewish Affairs 1971
CPUSA Internal Documents on the Expulsion of Paul Novick from the Party
To All Districts and National Committee Members: Cover Letter
Letter to Members of the Political Committee, CPUSA Paul Novick June 22, 1971
Charges Preferred Against Comrade Paul Novick National Organizational Department, CPUSA
The Case of Paul Novick Hyman Lumer, Claude Lightfoot, Jose Ristorucci
Letter to the Members of the National Committee, CPUSA [in response to the charges against him] Paul Novick November 10, 1971
The Morning Freiheit and the Demonstration and the Israeli UN Mission Morning Freiheit Editorial November 28, 1971
Decision of the Trial Committee in the Case of Paul Novick Daniel Rubin, National Organizational Secretary, CPUSA
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The Soviet Jewish Situation (1971) Louis Harap, Jewish Currents 1971
Communication: Blinded by National Chauvinism David Fried, Jewish Affairs 1971
What is Happening in the Morning Freiheit?, Editors of Sovetish Heimland 1972
The Morning Freiheit’s Bourgeois Nationalism Part 1, Part 2, Phil Honor 1972
A Letter to the Morning Freiheit by Carl Bloice, 1972
The USSR's "Friendly Critics" Hyman Lumer, Jewish Affairs 1973
Comment: Bourgeois Nationalism and the Morning Freiheit, Morris Rapoport 1973
Answering A Slanderous Attack: Can Terror Against Civilians Be Justified? Paul Novick
Letter to the Editor: Let Us Indeed Set The Record Straight!
Aptheker’s Attack on Paul Novick: The Assimilators and Their Slanders, Part I, Part II, Sid Resnick
The Morning Frieheit and the Situation of the Soviet Jews, Part 1, Part 2, N. Koppel, Jewish Affairs 1975
The Anti-Sovietism of the Morning Freiheit Statement of the National Jewish Commission, CPUSA, Jewish Affairs 1975
For Unity in the Progressive Movement: End Attacks and Slanders
The “Lies” of the Morning Freiheit
The Dubious Friends of New Jewish Agenda Sid Resnick
Letter to the Editor: On Unjustified Name Calling Against Honest Radicals
The Zionist Movement Revisited, Louis Harap 1976
The Current Policies of the Morning Freiheit Statement of the CPUSA, Jewish Affairs 1977
Stalinism and the Jewish Question. Lenin's Basic Principles Violated, Louis Harap 1979
The Soviet Jewish Situation: A Progressive View, various authors 1980
Soviet Anti-Semitism Gets Official Sanction, Paul Novick 1981
The Anti-Zionist Campaign in the USSR: From August 12, 1952 to April 1, 1983, Paul Novick 1983
Article in ’Daily World’: How to Assure Defeat of The Anti-Reagan Coalition Sid Resnick
On Perverting History, Another View Sid Resnick
The Daily World And the Holocaust Against the Jews
August 12,1952: A Date One Dare Not Forget, Paul Novick 1986
The Jewish People and The National Question Morris Winchevsky
This is the Last Issue of The Morning Freiheit
There Will Be No More Freiheit in the Morgens by Paul Buhle
Miscellaneous
Ten Years ARTEF, 1937
Jews in American History, 1654-1865, Philip Foner 1945
Shylock and Anti-Semitism, Morris U. Schappes 1962
The Distorted "World of Our Fathers", Paul Novick 1977
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COMMUNIST PARTY OF GREAT BRITAIN
Background Materials
'Jewish Communists' or 'Communist Jews'? The Communist Party of Great Britain and British Jews in the 1930s, Stephen M. Cullen
Manchester's Red Army [young Jews in the British Communist movement in the '30s] Mike Waite, Jewish Socialist #32 Autumn 1994
'If we were starry-eyed, it was because our eyes shone with faith in the future' [young Jews in the British Communist movement in the '30s] Aubrey Lewis, Jewish Socialist #32 Autumn 1994
The British Communist Party and Israel: From the Establishment of the Jewish State to the Invasion of Lebanon, [from June Edmunds' The Left's Views on Israel: From the Establishment of the Jewish State to the Intifada] 2013
British Palestine, British Communists, and the "Ideo-Logical" system of Labour Monthly, Emerson Bodde 2016
The CPGB and the Jewish Question
A Useful Study of the Jewish Question, 1935
The Jewish Question, George Sacks 1938
Anti-Semitism and the Jewish Question, I. Rennap 1942
Anti-Semitism and the Jewish Question [A Review], Ivor Montagu 1942
Jews and the National Question, Hyman Levy 1958
Jews and the National Question: An Exchange, Hyman Levy and R. P. Dutt 1958
Discussion of the Jewish Question in Marxism Today 1959
An Old Problem Rediscussed, Bert Ramelson
On the Jewish Problem, Jack Rosenberg
On the Jewish Problem, Solly Kaye
On the Jewish Question, A. Waterman
On the Jewish Problem, L. Zaidman
On the Jewish Problem, Rueben Falber
On the Jewish Problem, William Gallacher
On the Jewish Problem, Michael Cohen
On the Jewish Problem: Reply to Discussion, Bert Ramelson
The CPGB on Zionism and Palestine/Israel
The Class Character of the Palestine Rising 1, 1930
The Class Character of the Palestine Rising 2, 1930
Statement on Palestine, British Section, League Against Imperialism 1930
The Events in Palestine, 1936
Is Palestine Prosperous?, 1936
Palestine: The Imperialist View, 1937
The Palestine Report, 1937
Partition is a Crime Against Arabs and Jews, 1937
Against the British Plan to Divide Palestine, William Gallacher, M.P. 1937
Open Letter to a Socialist-Zionist, 1938
The Arab-Jewish Conference, I. Rennap 1939
The Position in Palestine and the Path to Peace, I. Rennap 1939
War Effects in Palestine and the Near East, I. Rennap 1940
Declaration on Palestine, [at the Empire Communist Parties Conference, London on 26 February to 3 March 1947]
Zionism, Andrew Rothstein 1953
Israel and the Arab Middle East, R. Palme Dutt 1957
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COMMUNIST PARTY OF PALESTINE/COMMUNIST PARTY OF ISRAEL BEFORE THE 1965 sPLIT
Background Materials
The Communist Movement in Palestine, 1919-1949
Communism versus Zionism: The Comintern, Yishuvism, and the Palestine Communist Party, Johan Franzén 2007
Reflections on a Silenced History. The PCP and Internationalism, Musa Budeiri 2012
Joseph Berger, Communist Activist in Palestine and Victim of Stalinism (1904-1978), Mario Kessler 2014
Polemics
The Mikunis-Sneh Group: A Picture of Political Degeneration, Hyman Lumer Jewish Affairs 1970
The Strange World of Dr. Sneh, Phil Honor Jewish Affairs 1971
Revelations of M. Sneh's Path, Information Bulletin, Communist Party of Israel April 1972
Primary Works
After the Liquidated Balfour Declaration in Palestine, Meir Vilner 1939
Arab-Jewish Unity for the Solution of Palestine's Problems, Meir Vilner 1946
The Peoples of Palestine Struggle for National Independence, [For A Lasting Peace! For a People's Democracy! S. Mikunis 1948
Critique of United Workers Party Platform, Esther Vilenska 1948
Peace Front in Israel, 1950
Who Endangers Israel's Security?, Esther Vilenska 1950
Israel Is In Danger, Moshe Sneh March 1953
Israel, [on the Suez crisis] S. Mikunis 1957
COMMUNIST PARTY OF ISRAEL (MAKI)
Information Bulletin, [of the Foreign Relations Department of the Central Committee, Communist Party of Israel] November 1966, May-June 1967, July 1967.
War and Peace in the Middle East, articles by Moshe Sneh, S. Mikunis, Ester Vilenska, Paul Novick et al, 1967
Communism - Democracy - The Jewish People [Theses for the 16th Congress of the Communist Party of Israel], Moshe Sneh
Outline for Israel's Path to Socialism [Theses for the 16th Congress of the Communist Party of Israel], Esther Vilenska
The Real Gain For Israel Is a Peace Agreement, Esther Vilenska
MAKI Communists in Israel Decide to Dissolve
Shmuel Mikunis Leaves MAKI, Joins Esther Vilenska Group
A Peace Medal For Yasir Arafat, Esther Vilenska
Israeli Communists Differ On New Interim Agreement
Israel-Egypt Interim Agreement Debated By Israeli Left
NEW COMMUNIST LIST/COMMUNIST PARTY OF ISRAEL (RAKAH)
The Road to Peace in the Middle East, Wolf Ehrlich 1969
Two Years Since the June 1967 War, Meir Vilner 1969
We Shall Struggle to Prevent the Renewing of Battles, for Establishment of a Just and Lasting Peace!, Statement of the CC of the Communist Party of Israel on the Occasion of the 4th Anniversary of the June War 1971
Nevertheless It Does Move, and Will Go on Moving! 4 Years After the June War , Wolf Ehrlich 1971
Deteriorating Israeli Position in Africa, Emile Touma [The African Communist, #54, Third Quarter 1973]
Heroes of the War, Meir Vilner [The African Communist, #56, First Quarter 1974]
Israeli CP Leaders Condemn Terror Against Civilians
Zionism – Is It Racist? Two Statements on the UN Resolution, Hyman Lumer, Meir Vilner 1975
Rekakh and the 18th Conference, [Israel & Palestine Monthly Review, #56-57, February 1977]
The Non-Zionist Left Front, [in the 1977 Israeli Elections]
For a United Front: Interview with Uzi Burstein, General Secretary of the Israeli Communist Party's Political Bureau, Meir Vilner [Israel & Palestine Monthly Review, #83, March 1981]
Always Innovate While Learning Constantly from Past Experience, Speech of Meir Vilner on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the Communist Party of Israel 1984
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CANADIAN COMMUNISTS
Background Materials
Portrait of a Jewish Professional Revolutionary: The Recollections of Joshua Gershman, Irving Abella 1977
A Catalogue of Shame: The Soviet Jewish Issue 25 Years ago and Now George Lewis 1985
The Promise: Communist Organizing in the Needle Trades, the Dressmakers' Campaign, 1928-1937, Mercedes Steedman 1994
Red Star Over Birobidzhan: Canadian Jewish Communists and the "Jewish Autonomous Region" in the Soviet Union, Henry Srebrnik 1999
Secular Yiddishkait: Left Politics, Culture, and Community, Ester Reiter 2002
Family Quarrel: Joe Salsberg, the 'Jewish' Question and Canadian Communism, Gerald Tulchinsky 2005
J. B. Salsberg: Communist or Communitarian?, Nathan Lev 2016
Primary Works
Palestine: What Is the Solution?, Tim Buck 1946
Talks with Soviet Leaders on the Jewish Question, J. B. Salsberg 1957
Views on Soviet Yiddish Culture, Jeremiah Lesser 1957
Ideology Distorted and Trampled, George Lewis (Toronto) (Canadian Jewish Outlook)
In Canada: United Jewish People’s Order Issue Statement On Israel and Mideast
Canadian Jew Answers Max Kagan Letter to USSR
Eleanor Marx: ’I Am a Jewess’, Henry R. Rosenthal
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JEWS IN THE POLISH PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC
Background Materials
The Defection of Jozef Swiatlo and the Search for Jewish Scapegoats in The Polish United Workers' Party, 1953-1954 L.W. Gluchowski
The Nationalist Right under Communism: Boleslaw Piasecki and the Polish Communists, 1944-1979 , Mikolaj Kunicki
The Anti-Zionist Campaign in Poland 1967-1968 , Dariusz Stola
From Oblivion to Memory. Poland, the Democratic Opposition and 1968 , Andrea Genest 2013
Primary Works
Jewish Problems in New Poland, Dr. David Sfard, Jewish Life 1957
The Jewish Problem in Poland Paul Novick 1969
What Happened in Poland, Hyman Lumer 1969
Wrecking the Polish Jewish Community, Yudel Korman, Jewish Currents 1970
How the Job Was Done in Poland, Yudel Korman, Jewish Currents 1970
What Has Changed in Poland?, Julius Katz-Suchy, Jewish Currents 1971
The End of a Thousand Years. The Recent Exodus of the Jews from Poland, compiled and edited by Itche Goldberg and Yuri Suhl 1971
The Polish-Jewish emigration of 1968 and their view of Poland, Jakob Hurrle
Polish Leadership Regrets 1968 Anti-Semitic Campaign, Sid Resnick
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OTHER COUNTRIES
Jewish National Communist Movement in Iraq. A Case of Anti-Zionist League in 1946, Akira Usuki
The Last Battles of Old World Ideology in the Race for Identity and Communal Power: Communists vs. Bundists vs. Zionists in Mexico, 1938-1951, Adina Cemet-Singer 1967
The Jews in Algeria:
Decree declaring the Jews natives to Algeria to be French citizens, 1870
To the Israelites of Algeria, FLN-ALN General Staff 1962
Cuba's Position on the Middle East Crisis, 1967
Jewish Citizens of Socialist Yugoslavia: Politics of Jewish Identity in a Socialist State, 1944-1974 , Emil Kerenji 2008
Jewish Communists in Inter-War Salonika: Balancing Between Communism and Nationalism, [from Politics of the Jewish Community of Salonika in the Inter-War Years] Maria Vassilikou 1999
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THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL
ABRAM LEON
A. Leon, Ernest Mandel 1947
The Jewish Question, A Marxist Interpretation, Abram Leon. 1946
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TONY CLIFF
British Policy in Palestine, October 1938
The Jewish-Arab Conflict, November 1938
Class Politics in Palestine, June 1939
Middle East at the Crossroads I, 1945
Middle East at the Crossroads II, The Role of Zionism, 1946
Middle East at the Crossroads III, The Role of Stalinism, 1946
Palestine Strike. Arab and Jews Unite, 1946
A New British Provocation in Palestine, 1946
Terrorism in Palestine Are the Terrorists Anti-Imperialist?, 1946
On the Irresponsible Handling of the Palestine Question, 1946
The Struggle in the Middle East, 1967
Roots of Israel's violence, 1982.
The Jews, Israel and the Holocaust, 1998.
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SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY (U.S.)
The Jewish Question, Jack Weber 1938
Zionism and the Lion, Ben Herman 1938
The Palestine Question, Paul Koston 1939
Zionism and the Arab Struggle, The Spark 1939
Notes on the Jewish Question, Charles Crompton 1939
A Program of Action for Palestine, Haor (El Nour) 1939
Rebuttal on the Palestine Question, The Spark 1939
The Plight of the European Jews, Fourth International 1946
Zionism and the Jewish Question in the Near East, Fourth International 1946
Jewish Question Since World War II, Ernest Mandel 1946
Draft Theses on the Jewish Question Today, Ernest Mandel 1947
Editorial: The Arab-Jewish War in Palestine, The Militant 1948
The Trotskyist Position in Palestine, Kol Ham'amad 1948
Zionism and the Middle East. The Aftermath of the Jewish-Arab War, S. Munier 1949
Notes on the Israeli Economy, a Palestinian Trotskyist 1949
Burning Issues of the Mid-East Crisis, Peter Buch 1969
Palestinian Liberation and Israel, Peter Buch 1969
Kibbutzim Children, Constance Weissman 1970
Resolution on Israel and the Arab Revolution, adopted at the Twenty-Fourth National Convention of the SWP in August 1971
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THE WORKERS PARTY (U.S.)
The Jewish Question and Anti-Semitism
The Saturday Evening Post Slanders the Jewish People, Irving Howe 1942
Why Fascists Use Anti-Semitic Lies, Susan Green 1942
American Jewish Conference Reveals Terrible Plight of World Jewry, William Gorman 1943
Anti-Semitism on the March, William Gorman 1943
Labor Must Organize the Fight Against Anti-Semitism, Susan Green 1944
Marxism and the Jewish Question, New International 1946
Assimilation Utopian: Self-Determination Of The Jews, Edward & Albert Findley 1946
Anti-Semitism and Polish Labor, A. Rudzienski 1947
The Jewish Problem After Hitler, Albert Gates 1947
Views on Anti-Semitism, Leon Shields 1949
Palestine/Israel
Jewish Colonization in Palestine, Karl Minter 1942
Nazi Pogroms Threaten Unarmed Palestine Jews, Albert Gates 1942
Whither Zionism? Wither Jewry?, Karl Minter 1943
Whither Zionism? Wither Jewry? - II, Karl Minter 1943.
Whither Zionism? Wither Jewry? - III, Karl Minter 1943
A "Dreyfus Case" in Palestine, William Gorman 1943
The Jewish Question and Palestine, Labor Action 1944
Comments on Articles on Zionism, Ben Hall 1944
Palestine ...Political Divisions; The Coming Elections, William Gorman 1944
British Policy Reason for Moyne Murder, William Gorman 1944
For Self-Determination in Palestine, Leon Shields 1946
The Meaning of Self-Determination. A Reply to Leon Shields, Albert Gates 1946
The Jews of Europe and Immigration to Palestine, New International 1946
Free Immigration Everywhere. Free Palestine with Majority Rule, National Committee, Workers Party 1946
No Immigration to Palestine. Arab Freedom the Main Issue, W. Brooks 1946
Four Recent Books on Palestine, William Gorman 1947
[Jews and Palestine], W. Brooks 1947
What's Ahead for Palestine?, Al Findley 1948
Partition One Thing; Aid to Jews Another, Albert Goldman 1948
How to Defend Israel. A Political Program for Israeli Socialists, Hal Draper 1948
The Jewish Question and Israel, Resolution Adopted by the Independent Socialist League 1951
Israel on its 4th Anniversary, Al Findley 1952
Israel's Laboristic Economy, Al Findley 1956
Israel's Arab Minority: The Beginning of a Tragedy, Hal Draper 1956
Israel's Arab Minority: The Great Land Robbery, Hal Draper 1957
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AMERICAN SOCIALIST
What Zionism Wants, Larry Hochman May 1957
The Arab-Israeli Conflict, A Jewish Socialist June 1957
Message of the Non-Jewish Jew, Isaac Deutscher September 1958
The Jewish Tradition, A California Reader January 1959
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REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST PARTY (UK)
Palestine the Pawn, 1938
The Jews Abandoned, 1939
The Left Wing Zionists and the Fourth International, Rose Carson 1943
Palestine - The Anglo-American Commission of Enquiry, 1946
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INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISTS
Israel and Imperialism (A brief analysis), N. Israeli 1968
Israel: The Hijack State, John Rose 1986
Zionism: False Messiah, Lance Selfa 1998
How the West Stood By ... While Six Million Died, Annie Zirin 1999
Palestine solidarity in Israel, Chanie Rosenberg 2001
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INTERNATIONAL MARXIST GROUP (UK)
Zionism - What It Is and How To Fight It, Nigel Ward
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THE NEW LEFT
IN GENERAL
The Birth of Israel, Jean-Paul Sartre 1949
Survivors, on the question of participation of Jews in May 1968 events in France
'We Are All German Jews': Exploring the Prominence of Jews in the New Left , Philip Mendes 2009
Young French Jews of 1968: Oral Histories, Robert Weiner 2015
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IN THE UNITED STATES
The Jewish Question and the Left – Old and New. A Challenge to the New Left Morris U. Schappes 1969
Arab-Israeli Debate: Toward A Socialist Solution, Jewish Liberation Project vs. Committee to Support Middle East Liberation 1970
The Failure of Jewish Radicalism, Bill Novack 1971
6 by Progressive Jewish Youth, 1974
A Prediction: The Reemergence of Socialism Among Jews , Arthur Liebman 1979
Jewish Red Diaper Babies [from red diaper babies, Judy Kaplan and Linn Shapiro, eds. 1985]
Studies on the Left
Arendt's Eichmann and Jewish Identity , Norm Fructher Winter 1965
Chutzpah
The Chutzpah Collective: An Introduction
Why We're Called Chutzpah, Jeffry (Shaye) Mallow for the Collective
Liberation of a Jewish Radical, Ruth Balser
Jewish, Radical and Proud, Miriam Socoloff and Henry Balser
The Joys of Socialism, the Heartbreak of Capitalism, Miriam Socoloff, Leo Schlosberg, Myron Perlman, Barbara Pruzan Perlman, Mirian Henriquez Nudel, Maralee Gordon, Alan Chill, and Robbie (Scholem) Skeist
In the Ranks of Liberation: The Jewish Workers' Bund, Myron Perlman
That's Funny, You Don't Look Anti-Semitic: Perspectives on the American Left, Steven Lubet and Jeffry (Shaye) Mallow
Religious Socialism, Henry Balser
Why We Write About Gay Liberation, Miriam Socoloff, Leo Schlosberg and Jeffry (Shaye) Mallow for the Collective
Solidarity and Self-Respect: Coming Out Jewish at the Socialist Feminist Conference, Susan Schechter
Guilt Tripping: The Middle East Debate in the National Lawyers Guild, Steven Lubet and Mirian Henriquez Nudel
The Way to Peace: Two Peoples, Two States, Robbie (Scholem) Skeist for the Collective
The Rosenberg Case: We Are All Your Children, Vicki Gabriner
Radical Zionist Alliance
National Liberation and the Jewish Woman Sheryl Baron 1971
Radical Political Irbutz in Israel David Mandel
Nitzotz, Vol. 1, No. 1, May 1972
A Radical Zionist's Critique of the Jewish Defense League by David Mandel
Jewish Socialist Critique
Jewish Socialist Critique, Issue #1, Fall 1979
Introduction
Statement of the Editorial Collective
Marx and the Jewish Question: A Response to Julius Carlebach by Gary Ruchwarger
The Holocaust Season: A Singer's Story by Karen Bogen
This Passover or the Next I Will Never be in Jerusalem by Hilton Obenzinger
Epilogue: The Reemergence of Socialism Among Jews by Arthur Liebman
The War of Independence by Hannah Davis
Waskowrestling by David Forbes
Grandmothers and Granddaughters: The Struggle for Women's Rights in Israel by Gershon Shafir
Jewish Socialist Critique, Issue #2, Winter 1980
Introduction
Blacks and Jews: Class and Ethnic Consciousness by Michael Cholden-Brown and David Forbes
’And Tomorrow Will Be Even Nicer’ by Larry Bush
Poem: The Bionic Messiah by J.K. Farbstein
Socialist-Zionism: the Untenable Synthesis by Gary Ruchwarger
Class, Culture and Woody Allen by Samuela Evans
Poem: You Want Me To Believe by Jan Heller Levi
Jewish Socialism in Eastern Europe: An Annotated Bibliography by Daniel Soyer
Jewish Socialist Critique, Issue #3, Spring-Summer 1980
Letter from the Collective
Introduction
Anatomy of a Fascist Party by Jack Eisner
In Pursuit of a Holocaust Consciousness. Jews in West Germany by Jack Zipes
Rediscovering Papercuts – A Jewish Folk Art by Madelyn Katzman
From Cultural Pluralism to Revolutionary Internationalism: Jewish Identity and the New York Jewish Intellectuals in the early 1930s by Alan M. Wald
Poem: The Monongahela River by Yuri Suhl
Interview with Martin Birnbaum by Paul Buhle
Poem: Sweatshop Bard on the Lower East Side by Mark Stein
Interview with Maxim Ghilan by Gary Ruchwarger for the JSC
Film Review: Free Voice of Jewish Labor: The Jewish Anarchists by Victor Treschan
Poem: The Grandmother by Irwin Rosen
Jewish Socialist Critique Pamphlet #1: The Jews of the Diaspora or the Vocation of a Minority, Richard Marienstras 1983
Jews for Urban Justice
The Oppression and Liberation of the Jewish People in America
Medem Jewish Socialist Group
Medem Jewish Socialist Group, Daniel Soyer, Shmate April/May 1982
Medem Jewish Socialist Group: Statement of Principles, 1983
Jews and the Left. An Exchange with Paul Buhle and Arthur Liebman
Shmate
Resistance and the Holocaust Steve Fankuchen, Vol. 1, No. 1 April/May 1982
Holocaust Resistance: An Annotated Bibliography James Bennett, Vol. 1, No. 4 & 5 January and April 1983
Bundism and Terrorism: The Hirsch Leckert Affair Leizer Janklewicz, Vol. 1. No. 4 January 1983
Jewish Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: An Oral History John Gerassi, Vol. 1. No. 5 April 1983
Jewish Holidays and the Left Burton Levine, Vol. 1. No. 13 Fall 1985
An Interview with Victor Erlich Burton Levine, Vol. 1. No. 14 Winter 1986
Henri Curiel - I Mitchell Abidor, Nos. 21/22 Spring 1989
Henri Curiel - II Maxim Ghilan, Nos. 21/22 Spring 1989
Jewish Solidarity Caucus, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
DSA Jewish Solidarity Caucus 2017
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IN THE UK
The New Reasoner
Document: Gramsci on the Jews, 1959
Universities & Left Review
The Wandering Jew as Thinker and Revolutionary, Isaac Deutscher 1958
Jewish Socialist Group
Articles from Jewish Socialist magazine:
Six Million and One. The Life and Death of Szmul Zygielbojm, Barry Smerin, #2 Summer 1985
Soviet Jews: Myth and Reality, Stephen Shenfield, #2 Summer 1985
Beneath Gathering Clouds [the Bund in Poland] Majer Bogdanski, #3 Autumn 1985
Zionism and Jewish Identity John Bunzl, #3 Autumn 1985
No Pasaran [Jews in the Spanish civil war] Mike Gerber, #6/7 Summer/Autumn 1986
Bundism in England Benjamin Nadel, #6/7 Summer/Autumn 1986
Cable Street - 50th Anniversary Benjamin Nadel, #6/7 Summer/Autumn 1986
Zionism and Anti-Zionism. Beyond the Slogans Roberto Sussman, #8 Winter 1986/7
Jewish Workers' Bund 90th Anniversary #11 Autumn 1987
90 years on Julia Bard, #11 Autumn 1987
A child of the Bund Esther Brunstein, #11 Autumn 1987
For the rights of Jews in the USSR. Statement of the Co-ordinating Committee of the Bund on recent changes in the Soviet Union and their impact on Soviet Jews, #12 Winter/Spring 1988
To be Jews among socialists ... and socialists among Jews [on the history of the Jewish Socialist Group] David Rosenberg, #19 Spring 1990
"I'm hated therefore I am" [on assimilationism on the Left] Michael Rosen, #21 Autumn 1990
Purged from history [on the murders of Erlich and Alter] Majer Bogdanski, #24 October-December 1991
Reaching the parts [on Jews and Socialism in the '90s] Adam Lent, #24 October-December 1991
Learning to Live without Zionism [on Jews and Socialism in the '90s] David Rosenberg, #25 January-March 1992
95 years young [Bund anniversary] Mike Heiser, #28 January-March 1993
You go your way and I'll go mine [beyond Zionism. An alternative Jewish identity] Mark Levine, #31 Spring 1994
Quotation marks and the Jewish question [postmodernism and Jewish identity] Stanley Mitchell, #32 Autumn 1994
Manchester's Red Army [young Jews in the Communist movement in the '30s] Mike Waite, #32 Autumn 1994
'If we were starry-eyed, it was because our eyes shone with faith in the future' [young Jews in the Communist movement in the '30s] Aubrey Lewis, #32 Autumn 1994
Zygielbojm's Last Letters #35 Spring 1996
A Day to Relate, Debate and Celebrate 100 Years of Jewish Socialism, #38 Spring 1998
Bund Centenary: International Party, Michael Heiser, #38 Spring 1998
Bund Centenary: Our History in Their Hands, David Rosenberg, #38 Spring 1998
Bund Centenary: Forget them not, Marek Edelman Jewish Socialist #38 Spring 1998
Contested territories, [Bundism and Zionism] David Rosenberg, #38 Spring 1998
Other JSG publications:
Facing Up to Antisemitism. How Jews in Britain Countered the Threats of the 1930s , David Rosenberg 1985
A Revolution in Jewish Life. The History of the Jewish Workers' Bund, Clive Gilbert 1987
Jewish revolutionaries, revolutionary Jews Daniel Randall, 2015
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IN ISRAEL
General Background
The New Left in Israel, Reuven Avinoam 1973
The Palestine question analyzed in the light of marxist politics, Reuven Kaminer
Matzpen
Background Materials
Matzpen: Fundamental Principles
Matzpen: Revolutionary anti-Zionism in Israel, Doug Enaa Greene 2014
Primary Materials
Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace (Israel and the Arabs 1948-1961), N. Israeli (Akiva Orr and Moshé Machover) 1961
The Other Israel. A Critique of Zionist History and Policy, 1968
Matzpen. A Collection of Political Statements, 1967-1969
Zionism and Palestine, Avika Orr 1971
The Other Israel. The Radical Case Against Zionism, Arie Bober, editor 1972
Letter to Israel & Palestine Monthly Review on Matzpen-Marxisti, M. Warshawski [Israel & Palestine Monthly Review #61-62, August-September 1977]
Zionism or Human Rights?, [on Soviet Jews] Moshé Machover 1978
The unJewish State. The Politics of Jewish Identity in Israel, Avika Orr 1983
Israel: Politics, Myths and Identity Crises, Avika Orr 1994
Is it Apartheid?, Moshé Machover 2004
Zionism - A Major Obstacle, Moshé Machover 2005
Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict and Resolution, Moshé Machover 2006
Siach
Siach. Israel New Left, 1971
Siach: Principles, 1972
Shasi
Shasi on Zionism 1971
Moked
Moked, 1973
Sheli
Sheli's Power, Binyamin Aktzin [Israel & Palestine Monthly Review #79, March 1980]
"Change - Only Under International Pressure:" An Interview with Meir Pail, [Israel & Palestine Monthly Review #83, March 1981]