Post­ed by Nat Bern­stein

Fol­low­ing up on last week’s sim­ple art­workon a biog­ra­phy of Karl Marx, let’s expand the design and dis­course to all of ​“Yid­dish­land”:

Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Yid­dish­land: A His­to­ry of Jew­ish Rad­i­cal­ism by Alain Brossat and Sylvia Kling­berg is a jour­ney across the Jew­ish socio-polit­i­cal move­ments aris­ing out of a pop­u­la­tion of rough­ly 11 mil­lion in the dense arch­i­pel­ago of com­mu­ni­ties stretch­ing from the Baltic Sea to Rus­si­a’s west­ern bor­ders. Tem­pered by an unusu­al mut­ed pink, the styl­ized book cov­er cap­tures the ener­gy of the his­to­ry it exam­ines: social­ists, Com­mu­nists, Bundists, Zion­ists, Trot­sky­ists, pro­le­tari­ats, and intel­lec­tu­als steeped in the reli­gious tra­di­tions of their fam­i­lies and swept up in ​“the great cur­rent of rev­o­lu­tion­ary utopi­an think­ing” of their time. An attempt to recov­er the rich rad­i­cal his­to­ry of a lost realm and work­ing class, Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Yid­dish­land will be on the shelves Sep­tem­ber 2016 from Ver­so Books.

Relat­ed Content:

• Yid­dish­lands: A Mem­oir by David G. Roskies
• Social Con­cern and Left Pol­i­tics in Jew­ihs Amer­i­can Art, 1880 – 1940 by Matthew Baigell
• Recov­er­ing Yid­dish­land: Thresh­old Moments in Amer­i­can Lit­er­a­ture by Mer­le L. Bachman
• Adven­tures in Yid­dish­land: Postver­nac­u­lar Lan­guage and Art by Jef­frey Shandler