Tony Michels
Biographic Data
| ID | 4789566 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tony Michels |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tony |
| FAMILY NAME | Michels |
| SIGNATURE | MICHELS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Jewish Radicals
The Cambridge History of Judaism
The eighth and final volume of The Cambridge History of Judaism covers the period from roughly 1815–2000. Exploring the breadth and depth of Jewish societies and their manifold engagements with aspects of the modern world, it offers overviews of modern Jewish history, as well as more focused essays on political, social, economic, intellectual and cultural developments. The first part presents a series of interlocking surveys that address the hist…
Donald Trump and the Triumph of Antiliberalism
Donald Trump and the Triumph of Antiliberalism Tony Michels (bio) "We Americans are reared with a feeling for the unity of our history and an unprecedented belief in the normality of our kind of life. ... [T]he same political institutions have persisted throughout our whole national career and therefore have acquired a certain appearance of normality and inevitableness." So states Daniel Boorstin in The Genius of American Politics, published in 1…
The Russian Revolution and the American Left
Viewing it over the long term, one can justly conclude the Russian Revolution was a tragedy for the American Left. On the one hand, it inspired visions of equality and justice in the minds of nearly all those who called themselves socialists (generally speaking) at some point between 1917 and 1956. On the other, the revolution proved painfully disappointing to all but a small minority of true believers. Over the course of four decades, the revolu…
The Russian Revolution in New York, 1917–19
The events of 1917 exerted strong influences on immigrant Jews in the United States of America, who, over the previous three decades, had cultivated ties with various Russian-Jewish and Russian political parties. With the lives of friends, relatives, and comrades hanging in the balance, immigrant Jews felt a deep investment in a successful outcome of the Russian Revolution. This article seeks to uncover the broad climate of opinion – the mix of p…
Is America “Different”?
Is America “Different”? A Critique of American Jewish Exceptionalism Tony Michels (bio) In his classic essay from 1955, “America Is Different,” Ben Halpern undertook to explain what he (and many others) viewed as the uniqueness of American Jewish history. The experience of Jews in the United States was singular, according to Halpern, because they at no point underwent an emancipation process wherein they needed to prove themselves worthy of citiz…
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Is America “Different”?
Is America “Different”? A Critique of American Jewish Exceptionalism Tony Michels (bio) In his classic essay from 1955, “America Is Different,” Ben Halpern undertook to explain what he (and many others) viewed as the uniqueness of American Jewish history. The experience of Jews in the United States was singular, according to Halpern, because they at no point underwent an emancipation process wherein they needed to prove themselves worthy of citiz…
The Cambridge History of Judaism
The eighth and final volume of The Cambridge History of Judaism covers the period from roughly 1815–2000. Exploring the breadth and depth of Jewish societies and their manifold engagements with aspects of the modern world, it offers overviews of modern Jewish history, as well as more focused essays on political, social, economic, intellectual and cultural developments. The first part presents a series of interlocking surveys that address the hist…
Donald Trump and the Triumph of Antiliberalism
Donald Trump and the Triumph of Antiliberalism Tony Michels (bio) "We Americans are reared with a feeling for the unity of our history and an unprecedented belief in the normality of our kind of life. ... [T]he same political institutions have persisted throughout our whole national career and therefore have acquired a certain appearance of normality and inevitableness." So states Daniel Boorstin in The Genius of American Politics, published in 1…
The Russian Revolution and the American Left
Viewing it over the long term, one can justly conclude the Russian Revolution was a tragedy for the American Left. On the one hand, it inspired visions of equality and justice in the minds of nearly all those who called themselves socialists (generally speaking) at some point between 1917 and 1956. On the other, the revolution proved painfully disappointing to all but a small minority of true believers. Over the course of four decades, the revolu…
The Russian Revolution in New York, 1917–19
The events of 1917 exerted strong influences on immigrant Jews in the United States of America, who, over the previous three decades, had cultivated ties with various Russian-Jewish and Russian political parties. With the lives of friends, relatives, and comrades hanging in the balance, immigrant Jews felt a deep investment in a successful outcome of the Russian Revolution. This article seeks to uncover the broad climate of opinion – the mix of p…
Jewish Radicals
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