"Secular "Yiddishkait
Left Politics, Culture, and Community
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5142312 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ester Reiter (York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Pages | 121 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Labour / Le Travail (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0700-3862 • E-ISSN: 1911-4842 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/25149216 |
| OpenAlex | W2134385272 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
THE WELL KNOWN YIDDISH POET, David Edelstadt, came to the United States in 1881, worked in sweatshops where he contracted tuberculosis, and died in 1892 at the age of 26. The song called Sweatshop eloquently expresses why Jews found left politics so compelling. For many of my parents' generation who arrived in the new world after the turn of the 20th century, first hand experience with the bloody pogroms in eastern Europe and the contemptuous treatment meted out to greenhorns in the new world taught them that to be a Jew, to be a Jew with dignity and with hope, meant to be a socialist, a communist — someone who had the courage
Political science · Politics · Sociology · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |