A Fire in Their Hearts

Yiddish Socialists in New York

Tony Michels

  • 2006 Salo W. Baron Prize of the American Academy for Jewish Research for the best first book in Jewish Studies published in 2005
  • Finalist, 2007 Weinberg Judaic Studies Institute Book Award



Introduction: Socialism in American Jewish History

1. Coming to Shore: Russian Radicals Discover the Jewish Working Class in New York

2. Speaking to "Moyshe": Socialists Create a Yiddish Public Culture

3. The Politics of Yidishe Kultur: Chaim Zhitlovsky and the Challenge of Jewish Nationalism

4. Purely Secular, Thoroughly Jewish: The Arbeter Ring and Yiddish Education

5. "We Sought a Home for Our Souls": The Communist Gamble

Epilogue: An Ambiguous Legacy

Notes

Index

  • Cover: A Fire in Their Hearts

Tony Michels is George L. Mosse Associate Professor of American Jewish History, University of Wisconsin, Madison.