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19 - Marxism, Socialism, and Antisemitism

from Part III - The Modern Era

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2022

By
Jack Jacobs
Edited by
Steven Katz
Steven Katz
Affiliation:
Boston University
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Summary

The meaning, the uses, and the function of antisemitism have been rather varied on the left, as elsewhere on the political spectrum. while specific socialists, Communists, and radicals have made use of antisemitic rhetoric, many important leftists have perceived political antisemitism as reactionary, and have combatted it in a variety of different ways.

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MarxistssocialistsCommunistsleftists
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The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism , pp. 340 - 357
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Carlebach, J., Karl Marx and the Radical Critique of Judaism (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization) (London, 1978). The most thorough analysis of Marx’s relationship to antisemitism. Includes an extensive, annotated bibliography.Google Scholar
Fischer, L., The Socialist Response to Antisemitism in Imperial Germany (Cambridge, 2007). An impressive study on the relationships of German Social Democrats toward antisemitism at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Linfield, S., The Lions’ Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky (New Haven, CT, 2019). Explores the attitudes of 20th-century left-wing intellectuals, including Maxime Rodinson, Isaac Deutscher, Albert Memmi, and Noam Chomsky.Google Scholar
McGeever, B., Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution (Cambridge, 2019). An excellent study of the relationships between the Bolsheviks and antisemitism in the era of the Russian Revolution and of the Russian Civil War.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mendelsohn, E., ed., Essential Papers on Jews and the Left (New York, 1997). Reprints of classic pieces by prominent scholars such as Edmund Silberner, Shlomo Avineri, and Jonathan Frankel.Google Scholar
Nedava, J., Trotsky and the Jews (Philadelphia, 1972). An extended analysis, including discussion of the roles of antisemitism in Trotsky’s life, and the changes in his ideas over the course of his career.Google Scholar
Niewyk, D. L., Socialist, Anti-Semite, and Jew: German Social Democracy Confronts the Problem of Anti-Semitism, 1918–1933 (Baton Rouge, LA, 1971). A compelling analysis of the positions of the German Social Democratic Party on matters related to antisemitism in the era of the Weimar Republic.Google Scholar
Rich, D., The Left’s Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Antisemitism (London, 2018). A thorough investigation of contemporary attitudes toward antisemitism in the British Labour Party.Google Scholar
Silberner, E., “British Socialism and the Jews,” Historia Judaica 14 (1952), 27–52. An important source on Owen, the Chartists, the Webbs, and early British Social Democrats.Google Scholar
Silberner, E., “French Socialism and the Jewish Question, 1865–1914,” Historia Judaica 16 (1954), 3–38. Surveys opinions of French leftists, with special attention devoted to the range of perspectives expressed in the era of the Dreyfus Affair.Google Scholar
Traverso, E., The Marxists and the Jewish Question: The History of a Debate (1843–1943), trans. Gibbons, B. (Atlantic Highlands, NJ, 1994). A sensitive examination of the attitudes of such figures as Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, and Gramsci and of the relevant policies of both socialist and communist movements.Google Scholar
Wistrich, R. S., Revolutionary Jews from Marx to Trotsky (London, 1976). Contains chapters on the ideas of a number of leading socialists of Jewish origin in Germany, Austria-Hungary, France, and Russia.Google Scholar

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