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Jews became involved in radical politics to transform society but also out of a desire to belong. For the first time, this volume centers radical Jewish politics in the Middle East and North Africa and puts this history into conversation with developments in the Americas, South Africa, Soviet Asia, and Europe.
About the author
NATHANIEL DEUTSCH is Distinguished Professor of History and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of a number of award winning books, including
The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement, for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
ALMA RACHEL HECKMAN is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of
The Sultan's Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging. TONY MICHELS is the George L. Mosse Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of
A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York, which won the Salo Baron Prize for Best First Book in Jewish Studies.
