Elissa Sampson is an urban geographer and Lecturer in the Jewish Studies Program at Cornell University. Robert M. Zecker is Professor of History at St. Francis Xavier University and the author of four books, including a history of the IWO, "A Road to Peace and Freedom."
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1. Forging Jewish Unity in Wartime Platforms 2. The Jewish Workers University: Yiddish Communist Education 3. Portrait of a Radical: June Gordon, the Emma Lazarus Clubs, and Communist Jewish Women's Activism 1920-1970 4. A Tale of Two Revisions: The Color Line and the Jewish Problem, From Galicia to Dougherty County 5. Langston Hughes and the International Workers Order 6. Staging the Interracial Left: Paul Robeson, Black Artistry and the International Workers Order 7. Fighting for Black Rights Through the Fraternal Arena: Louise Thompson Patterson in the International Workers Order 8. Di progressive: YKUF in Argentina and South America 9. A Constellation of One's Own: Canadian Jewish Communists & their Mass Organizations 10. "Dancing at Two Weddings": Radical Jewish Artists and their Relationship to Yiddishkayt from the Popular Front to the Post-War Era 11. "We'll stay here 'til the fascist tomb is made" - the IWO and the International Brigade 12. "A Fraternal Order Sentenced to Death":: The Legal Persecution of the International Workers Order 13. From Many Roots, One Tree: Jews and the Origins of Multi-Ethnic Communism in the U.S., 1921-1972
A multi-faceted new anthology. In 13 chapters (plus a coda by Paul Buhle, the indispensable popular historian of the Jewish left), the book ranges over various aspects of the influential but largely forgotten "fraternal society." * Jewish Currents *