DARK TIMES, DIRE DECISIONS

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1 THE AVRAHAM HARMAN INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY JEWRY THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM DARK TIMES, DIRE DECISIONS Jews and Communism STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY JEWRY AN ANNUAL XX A 2005/ Edited by Jonathan Frankel Guest Symposium Editor: Dan Diner Published for the Institute by OXTORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

2 Symposium Dark Times, Dire Decisions: Jews and Communism Dan Diner and Jonathan Frankel, Introduction Jews and Communism: The Utopian Temptation, 3 Jaff Schatz, Jews and the Communist Movement in Interwar Poland, 13 Istvan Deak, Jews and Communism: The Hungarian Case, 38 Gennady Estraikh, The Yiddish-Language Communist Press, 62 Jeffrey Veidlinger, The Moscow State Yiddish Theater as a Cultural and Political Phenomenon, 83 Ezra Mendelsohn, Jews, Communism, and Art in Interwar America, 99 Alan Wald, Between Insularity and Internationalism: The Lost World of the Jewish Communist "Cultural Workers" in America, 133 Jason L. Heppell, Party Recruitment: Jews and Communism in Britain, 148 Renee Poznanski, On Jews, Frenchmen, Communists, and the Second World War, 168 Jan T. Gross, After Auschwitz: The Reality and Meaning of Postwar Antisemitism in Poland, 199 Walter Laqueur, Jews and Communists in the Islamic World: A Note on Abraham Serfaty and Henri Curiel, 227 Pinhas Ginossar, From Zionism to Communism and Back: The Case of Moshe Sneh ( ), 236 Karin Hartewig, A German Jewish Communist of the Second Generation: The Changing Personae of Klaus Gysi, 255

3 xii Essay Kalman Weiser, The "Orthodox" Orthography of Solomon Birnbaum, 275 Review Essays Michael Rosenak, The Face of Modern Orthodoxy, 299 Haim Genizi, Sheerit Hapeletah: Between Destruction and Rebirth, 305 Ira Sharkansky, Still More Books about Jerusalem, 311 Book Reviews r (arranged by subject) Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide Joseph W. Bendersky, The "Jewish Threat": Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army, DEBORAH DASH MOORE, 317 Joseph Berger, Displaced Persons: Growing Up in America after the Holocaust, JUDITH TYDOR BAUMEL, 320 David Kranzler, The Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz: George Mantello, El Salvador and Switzerland's Finest Hour, MICHAEL BERENBAUM, 323 Hagit Lavsky, New Beginnings: Holocaust Survivors in Bergen-Belsen and the British Zone in Germany, , HAIM GENIZI, 305 Zeev W. Mankowitz, Life between Memory and Hope: The Survivors of the Holocaust in Occupied Germany, HAIM GENIZI, 305 Christopher M. Sterba, Good Americans: Italian and Jewish Immigrants during the First World War, DEBORAH DASH MOORE, 317 David S. Wyman and Rafael Medoff, A Race against Death: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust, HENRY L. FEINGOLD, 326 Joshua D. Zimmerman (ed.), Contested Memories: Poles and Jews during the Holocaust and Its Aftermath, FRANCOIS GUESNET, 329

4 xiii Biography, History, and the Social Sciences Israel Bartal and Yisrael Gutman (eds.), Kiyum veshever: yehudei polin ledoroteihem (The broken chain: Polish Jewry throughout the ages, vol. 2), JUDITH KALIK, 332 Hasia R. Diner, Lower East Side Memories, GERALD SORIN, 334 Hasia R. Diner, Jeffrey Shandler, and Beth S. Wenger (eds.), Remembering the Lower East Side: American Reflections, GERALD SORIN, 334 Todd M. Endelman, The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000, GEOFFREY ALDERMAN, 338 Eli Lederhendler, New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity, , ANDREW R. HEINZE, 339 Benjamin Nathans, Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia, THEODORE R. WEEKS, 342 Riv-Ellen Prell, Fighting to Become Americans: Assimilation and the Trouble between Jewish Women and Jewish Men, ELI LEDERHENDLER, 345 Shimon Redlich, Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, , DAVID ENGEL, 350 Marsha Rozenblit, Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria during World War I, KLAUS HODL, 352 Hilary L. Rubinstein, Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Abraham J. Edelheit, and William D. Rubinstein, The Jews in the Modern World: A History since 1750, LLOYD P. GARTNER, 354 Evelyn Salz (ed.), Selected Letters of Mary Antin, ELI LEDERHENDLER, 345 Gerald Sorin, Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent, ELI LEDERHENDLER, 356 Language, Literature, and the Arts Emily Miller Budick (ed.), Ideology and Jewish Identity in Israeli and American Literature, MURRAY BAUMGARTEN, 359

5 xiv Ranen Omer-Sherman, Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, and Roth, EMILY MILLER BUDICK, 360 Gabriella Safran, Rewriting the Jew: Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire, BRIAN HOROWITZ, 363 Jeffrey A. Summit, The Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship, JUDAH COHEN, 365 Alan Wald, Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth- Century Literary Left, CAREN IRR, 367 Barbie Zelizer (ed.), Visual Culture and the Holocaust, STEPHEN C. FEINSTEIN 369 Religion, Thought, and Education Shmuel Feiner, Haskalah and History: The Emergence of a Modern Jewish Historical Consciousness, trans. Chaya Naor and Sondra Silverton, JONATHAN KARP, 373 Shmuel Feiner and David Sorkin (eds.), New Perspectives on the Haskalah, JONATHAN KARP, 373 Norman Lamm, Seventy Faces: Articles of Faith, MICHAEL ROSENAK, 299 Tzvi C. Marx, Disability in Jewish Law, SHMUEL SHILO, 377 Gideon Ofrat, The Jewish Derrida, trans. Peretz Kidron, JONATHAN JUDAKEN, 379 Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East Meron Benvenisti, City of Stone: The Hidden History of Jerusalem, IRA SHARKANSKY, 311 Marshall J. Breger and Ora Ahimeir (eds.), Jerusalem: A City and Its Future, IRA SHARKANSKY, 311 Gershom Gorenberg, The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount, IRA SHARKANSKY, 311

6 x Eli Lederhendler (ed.), The Six-Day War and World Jewry, MICHAEL BROWN, 383 Asher Nairn, Saving the Lost Tribe: The Rescue and Redemption of the Ethiopian Jews, SHALVA WEIL, 385 Chanan Reich, Australia and Israel: An Ambiguous Relationship, SHLOMO SLONIM, 388 Anita Shapira, Jehuda Reinharz, and Jay Harris (eds.), 'Idan haziyonut (The age of Zionism), ALLON GAL, 390 Bernard Wasserstein, Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City, IRA SHARKANSKY, 311 for Volume XXI, 392 Note on Editorial Policy, 393