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A Future without Hate or Need: The Promise of the Jewish Left in Canada by Ester Reiter

A Future without Hate or Need: The Promise of the Jewish Left in Canada by Ester Reiter B o o k R e v i e w s        119 A Future without Hate or Need: The Promise of the Jewish Left in Canada Ester Reiter Toronto: Between the Lines, xiii + pp., $ . (paper) Over the past ve years, a number of authors have critically examined the complexity of the historical Jewish-Left alliance. They include, most notably, Jack Jacobs (Jews and Left- ist Politics [Cambridge University Press, Š]); Matthew Hoffman and Henry Sr ebrnik (A Vanished Ideology [State University of New York Press,  ]); Alain Brossat and Sylvie Klingberg (Revolutionary Yiddishland [Verso,  ]); Colin Shindler (Israel and the Euro- pean Left [Continuum, ]); and Philip Mendes (Jews and the Left [Palgrave,  ]). As a collective, these texts interrogate the key factors that attracted Jews to the political Left, the extent to which they identied as Jews per se, the reasons why the Jewish-L eft alliance declined, and whether there is likely to be a revival of the Jewish-Left connection in the future. Although they vary from sole authored texts to edited contribu- tions, their locational focus tends to be at least regional if not global with an emphasis on the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Labor Duke University Press

A Future without Hate or Need: The Promise of the Jewish Left in Canada by Ester Reiter

Mendes, Philip; Fraser, Max; Phelps, Christopher
Labor , Volume 15 (1) – Mar 1, 2018
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B o o k R e v i e w s        119 A Future without Hate or Need: The Promise of the Jewish Left in Canada Ester Reiter Toronto: Between the Lines, xiii + pp., $ . (paper) Over the past ve years, a number of authors have critically examined the complexity of the historical Jewish-Left alliance. They include, most notably, Jack Jacobs (Jews and Left- ist Politics [Cambridge University Press, Š]); Matthew Hoffman and Henry Sr ebrnik (A Vanished Ideology [State University of New York Press,  ]); Alain Brossat and Sylvie Klingberg (Revolutionary Yiddishland [Verso,  ]); Colin Shindler (Israel and the Euro- pean Left [Continuum, ]); and Philip Mendes (Jews and the Left [Palgrave,  ]). As a collective, these texts interrogate the key factors that attracted Jews to the political Left, the extent to which they identied as Jews per se, the reasons why the Jewish-L eft alliance declined, and whether there is likely to be a revival of the Jewish-Left connection in the future. Although they vary from sole authored texts to edited contribu- tions, their locational focus tends to be at least regional if not global with an emphasis on the

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