Jews, Marxism and the Worker's Movement
Melech Epstein
The Jew and Communism
The Story of Early Communist Victories and Ultimate Defeats in the Jewish Community, U.S.A. 1919-1941
First Published: 1959.
Transcription, Editing and Markup: Paul Saba
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Contents
Introduction
1. The New Immigration
2. The Hopeful Years
3. Confusion in the War
4. The Left Wing
5. Communism’s Birth Pangs
6. In the Underground
7. Moscow Takes a Hand
8. The New Concept
9. The Jewish Left
l0. Their Road to Communism
11. The Second Split
12. The Open Party; The Freiheit
13. A Poor Beginning
14. New Alignments
15. The Expendables
16. Victory Among Defeats
17. The Contest in the Workmen’s Circle
18. The IWO, A New Communist Arm
19. Relief Is Politics
20. Jewish Fortunes in Russia
21. Ambitious Projects
22. Birobidjan; Thriving on a Myth
23. Running to Moscow
24. Stalin Takes Over
25. The Postwar Youth
26. Branching Out
27. Fiasco and Success
28. Battling the Community
29. Feeding on Hunger
30. White Bias Show Trials
31. A Cultural Wasteland
32. Jefferson, Lincoln–and Stalin
33. Patriotism Pays Off
34. Working at Cross Purposes
35. Fat Years That Turned Lean
36. The Outstretched Hand
37. Birobidjan, A Lucrative Affair
38. Judaizing Communism
39. Strength and Moods
40. The Four Hectic Days
41. Excitement and Fury
42. The Mazel Tov Counterattack
43. Portraits in Miniature
Olgin, A Man of Contrasts
Shachno Epstein, From a Writer to a Spy
Kalmen Marmor, His Communism Was a Puzzle
A. Bittelman, More Politician than Theoretician
Israel Amter, A Saintly Communist
Jack Stachel, The Organization Man
Notes
References