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The American Jewish Communist movement played a major role in the politics of Jewish communities in cities such as Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia, as well as in many other centers, between the 1920's and the 1950's. Making extensive use of Yiddish-language books, newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, and other materials, Dreams of Nationhood traces the ideological and material support provided to the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan, located in the far east of the Soviet Union, by two American Jewish Communist-led organizations, the ICOR and the American Birobidzhan Committee. By providing a detailed historical examination of the political work of these two groups, the book makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of twentieth-century Jewish life in the United States.

Jews --- Jewish communists --- Communism --- Politics and government --- History --- Icor. --- Birobidzhan (Russia) --- Evreæiskaëiìa avtonomnaëiìa oblast§ (Russia) --- History. --- Iḳor --- I. C. O. R. --- Gezelshafṭ far Idisher ḳolonizatsye in Soṿeṭn-Farband --- Organization for Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union --- American Association for Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union --- Association for Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union --- איקאָר --- Birobidzhan (R.S.F.S.R.) --- Biro-Bidjan (Russia) --- Birabidzhan (Russia) --- Birobidshansk (Russia) --- Birobidzan (Russia) --- Tikhonʹkaya Stantsiya (R.S.F.S.R.) --- Birobijan (Russia) --- Tikhonʹkai︠a︡ stant︠s︡ii︠a︡ (R.S.F.S.R.) --- Birobidzshan (Russia) --- Birobidshan (Russia) --- Birebidzshan (Russia) --- Birobidjan (Russia) --- Evreĭskai͡a avtonomnai͡a oblastʹ (Russia) --- Communists --- Yevreyskaya avtonomnaya oblastʹ, Russia --- Jewish Autonomous Region (Russia) --- Yevreyskaya avtonomnaya oblastʹ (Russia) --- Evreĭskai︠a︡ avtonomnai︠a︡ oblastʹ (R.S.F.S.R.) --- Birobidzhan (Russia : Oblast) --- Jewish Autonomous Oblast (Russia) --- EAO --- JAR --- Yidishe avtonome gegnt (Russia) --- Evreĭskai︠a︡ avtonomnai︠a︡ oblastʹ (Russia)

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In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of Yiddish speaking immigrants actively participated in the American Socialist and labor movement. They formed the milieu of the hugely successful daily Forverts (Forward), established in New York in April 1897. Its editorial columns and bylined articles—many of whose authors, such as Abraham Cahan and Sholem Asch, were household names at the time—both reflected and shaped the attitudes and values of the readership. Most pages of this book are focused on the newspaper’s reaction to the political developments in the home country. Profound admiration of Russian literature and culture did not mitigate the writers’ criticism of the czarist and Soviet regimes.

Jewish newspapers --- Jewish socialists --- Jews --- Socialism and Judaism --- Yiddish newspapers --- HISTORY / Jewish. --- Judaism and socialism --- Judaism --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Socialists, Jewish --- Socialists --- Jewish press --- Newspapers --- Intellectual life. --- History --- Forṿerṭs (New York, N.Y.) --- Forward, New York --- Forward (New York, N.Y.) --- Forwerts (New York, N.Y.) --- Jewish daily forward (New York, N.Y.) --- Vorwaerts (New York, N.Y.) --- 1917. --- Abraham Cahan. --- American Jews. --- Birobidzhan. --- Bolsheviks. --- Crimea. --- Eastern Europe. --- Forverts. --- Forward. --- Hebrew. --- Jewish press. --- Judaism. --- Marxism. --- New York. --- Palestine. --- Russia. --- Russian Revolution. --- Sholem Asch. --- WWI. --- WWII. --- Yiddish. --- Zionism. --- anti-Sovietism. --- communists. --- culture. --- debate. --- diaspora. --- immigration. --- internationalism. --- journalism. --- language. --- media. --- newspapers. --- patriotism. --- political commentary. --- socialists. --- war.