Yiddishist Socialist - Used to Propagate Socialism! Web Site Links for Further Study ..
Doc Tavish
http://sunsite.unc.edu/yiddish/us-st-yi-1990.html
Yiddish speakers in the US (by state)
1990 Census
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State Number of Speakers
Alabama: 120
Alaska:12
Arizona:921
Arkansas:72
California: 12691
Colorado:704
Connecticut:2188
Delaware:202
District of Columbia:113
Florida:27363
Georgia: 572
Hawaii:56
Idaho:0
Illinois:6751
Indiana:432
Iowa:231
Kansas:77
Kentucky:157
Louisiana:137
Maine:202
Maryland:3660
Massachusetts:4126
Michigan:2550
Minnesota:843
Mississippi:27
Missouri: 1250
Montana: 0
Nebraska:219
Nevada:515
New Hampshire:213
New Jersey: 11569
New Mexico:120
New York:117323
North Carolina: 316
North Dakota:15
Ohio:2907
Oklahoma:71
Oregon:220
Pennsylvania:9844
Rhode Island: 494
South Carolina: 193
South Dakota:17
Tennessee:251
Texas:1270
Utah: 57
Vermont:78
Virginia:641
Washington:386
West Virginia:37
Wisconsin: 835
Wyoming:16
Total 213064
It is easy to demograph where our propagators of socialism are from
the above. Notice the heavy concentrations of Yids in Calaifornia, New
York, and Florida. Notice as well that they are absent in Idaho and
Montana!
See also
Yiddish in the US cities in 1990
http://sunsite.unc.edu/yiddish/us-ci-yi-1990.html
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http://www.jewishculture.org/jcn/F95-2.htm
LOST IN HISTORY
A Stanford graduate student attempts to find how socialism, Yiddish,
and American Jewish history fit together.
Between 1890 and 1924, Eastern European immigration to the U.S.
created a poor but vibrant Jewish community heavily indebted to
Yiddish culture and socialist politics imported from the old country.
On the surface, explains Stanford Ph.D. candidate Anthony Michels,
that community bears little resemblance to our own - for the most part
an affluent, English-speaking, assimilated group. But in fact, he
says, both communities were faced with "a large degree of openness,
which afforded us and them the possibility of doing what we wanted
to."
The main difference between then and now, he continued, "is that
because we are so assimilated we have less to work with than they did.
In Yiddish those who rebelled against their upbringing were called
apicoris (heretics]. But most of us don't even know enough to be
heretics."
Michels, whose Ph.D. dissertation in history is entitled "Yiddish
Culture, Socialist Politics and the Shaping of Immigrant Jewish
Identity in America, 1890-1924," is one of seven graduate students to
receive a 1995-1996 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Jewish Studies
from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture.
A fluent Yiddish speaker and reader after years of study, the Northern
Californian is attempting to uncover a lost history of American Jewish
life, one that he says should be understood in its own context, as
well as studied for clues as to how Jewish communities in flux--like
our own--create new identities for themselves.
Why is this a lost chapter in American Jewish history? According to
Michels, in part because the influence of radical politics has been
excised by later Jews who saw it as incompatible with post-War
assimilation, growing affluence, and even the religious tradition
itself.
"Socialism has been perceived as a hostile and alien element,
associated with communism, and one that only serves to hurt the
religious tradition," explains Michels, who has been a lecturer at
Temple Beth Torah in Fremont, California. "But I'd like to argue that
socialism had a huge impact on Jewish life that's not so clear
anymore. Look at the way in which it changed Yiddish culture, the
mores and values as well as its literature and its cultural
institutions." Michels began his academic career studying American
labor politics at the University of California at Santa Cruz. As his
interest in Judaism began to grow, he started taking courses in
Yiddish and reflecting on American Jewish history, eventually
combining his interests in a doctoral program in history at Stanford
University. Michels believes that the American Jewish community is now
secure enough to see its past in a less "sanitized" fashion and own up
to the "brutal and grubby aspects of life at that time, as well as the
bright side of things."
"We're comfortable enough now, and American enough, not to have to
worry about saying that we were also criminals," he said about a
Jewish history that includes its share of gangsters and prostitutes.
"Now we can write books about it. Now we have to."
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Social Movements: Anarchism
Brief bibliography of Yiddish sources
http://sunsite.unc.edu/yiddish/Bibliog/anarkh.htm
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Dictionaries
http://sunsite.unc.edu/yiddish/diction.html
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Social Movements: Bund
Brief bibliography of Yiddish sources
http://sunsite.unc.edu/yiddish/Bibliog/bund-yi.html
Bund info:
Lucy S. Dawidowicz
THE WAR AGAINST THE JEWS 1933-1945 by Bantam Books Incorporated
(#13084-6, 1979 ed).
[Jewish Labor] Bundists were cut off from contact with Polish
Socialists....... Dawidowicz further states on page 363: "The Bund
historically held the Marxist view of society in conflict...." J.W.B.]
Also concerning the Bund in Poland:
In 1897 was founded the Bund, the union of Jewish workers in Poland
and Lithuania. . . They engaged in revolutionary activity upon a large
scale, and their energy made them the spearhead of the Party (Article
on "Communism" by Harold J. Laski, Encyc. Brit., Vol. III, pp
824-827).
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Subject: Re: Workman's Circle
From: sim...@bu.edu (Simcha Streltsov)
Date: 1997/04/01
Message-ID: <5hrqos$k...@news.bu.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
Harry Weiss (hjw...@netcom.com) wrote:
: The workmen's circle was big in the early twentieth century. It was : a group of Yiddish speaking socialist/communist anti religious
: Jews.
: --
I visited their building in Brookline, MA. As expected they lost
their fever significantly, there are several old people walking
around, several ads in English/ Yiddish. Nothing anti-religious,
nothing socialist, nothing of any interest to scj readers ...
I always wonder what would the socialist Yiddishist writers of the
beginning the century would say if they would be able to compare
current workmen circle and a nearest Orthodox shul - all of them were
describing a dying Jewish religion - some laughing, some with a
certain sympathy, like Sholom Aleichem, but all convinced that this
world is dying. [in fairness, you did not have to be a socialist to
have this sentiment at those times ]
Simcha Streltsov, _Former_ Adar Rabbi of S.C.Soviet
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Subject: All New! Yiddish- Something Amiss! Primary Language of
False Jews
From: bro...@deleteme.hotmail.com (John Winslow Brown)
Date: 1997/12/25
Message-ID: <34a1b2a3...@news.flash.net>
[ ... ]
Origins of the Modern Jewish Population
To fully appreciate the origins of 20th century Jewry we will
now study a few historical writings with biblical origins contrasted
to Jewish sources of reference.
Using Lucy S. Dawidowicz's book THE WAR AGAINST
THE JEWS 1933-1945 by Bantam Books Incorporated (#13084-6,
1979 ed).
From Dawidowicz's book on page xxv in The Subject:
Definitions and Contours we read:
"Even at the time of the greatest Jewish national
trauma, the destruction of the Second Temple (in
Jerusalem), the physical survival of the Jews was not in
such jeopardy as during the Holocaust. In 70 C.E. only about
1/4th of the Jews lived in Palestine, while the rest lived
in Diaspora [The Diaspora is: "... the entire Jewish
community outside Israel."]. More Jews lived in Alexandria
then than in Jerusalem. In 1939, in contrast, 2/3rds of the
world's Jews lived in Europe and 3/4ths of them- half of
world Jewry -were concentrated in Eastern Europe.
The destruction of East European Jewry brought to
an end the thousand year old culture of Ashkenazic Jewry that
had originated in the Rhine Basin and that by 1939 was
concentrated in Eastern Europe.
It was a culture whose religious teachings and traditions
defined its secular nature and values. It was a culture
whose language was Yiddish,
[Note: Pertaining to Yiddish and the politics the book shows the
language connected with we see on page 341: "In Warsaw,
representatives of the diverse Jewish school networks ranging from the
traditionalist to the Zionist Hebraist and socialist Yiddishist...."]
the language in which Jewish males studied the
Talmud... East European Jewry created a culture that
venerated the sefer, the book of religious learning. It
was a culture unique in all Jewish history, and East
European Ashkenazic Jewry, which fashioned that culture,
was the wellspring of Jewish creativity for Jewish
communities throughout the world."
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Origins of Yiddish:
http://www.santafe.edu/~johnson/articles.yiddish.html
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Yiddish is the language that socialism/communism is propagated in (in
many cases):
http://www.circle.org/public/default.htm
The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring, dedicated to fostering Jewish
identity and participation in Jewish life, among its members through
Jewish, especially Yiddish, culture and education, friendship, mutual
aid and the pursuit of social and economic justice
[Go to the web site and read their tripe and you will see what I
mean!]
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Click http://www.jewishamerica.com/TimeLine/haskala.htm
to see (excerpt)
Haskala Jews splinter into several groups which are fueled by diverse
ideologies. Some form a culture group that is based upon a Jewish
language. Some form a Hebrew Haskala; others form a Yiddish Haskala.
Some make Russian culture and citizenship into an ideal. Others join
the growing number of people who are against social and economic
inequality. They join the struggle to obtain rights for the exploited
labor class, which turns into Socialism. Others will become Secular
Zionists. ^^^^^^^
The Czar exploits the break-offs. In their struggle against
traditional Judaism, Haskala Jews are given some privileges and
assistance, sometimes clandestinely. Some get influence in the Bureau
of Jewish Affairs and interfere with religious matters.....
A lot of Haskala Jews are ready to give up on Russia. Many channel
their energy into creating a home land of their own.
Some Haskala Jews turn to political revolution. The Russian Revolution
of the early 20th century will overthrow the Czarist government and it
will be led by a disproportionate number of Jews. The Czar that used
civil unrest against the Jews will be destroyed by it.
[Well I'll be another Jewish source says: "The Russian Revolution of
the early 20th century will overthrow the Czarist government and it
will be led by a disproportionate number of Jews."]
Joseph Hertzlinger
If Yiddish is identical with socialist, what does that imply about Jews
who don't speak Yiddish?