CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Hahamovitch, Reynolds Nelson |
|---|---|
| Title | Toward the Jewish Revolution: Yiddish Anarchists in New York City, 1901-1906 |
| Summary | In this thesis I argue that the Yiddish anarchist movement in New York City experienced a period of critical transition between 1901 and 1906 that saw the movement largely turn away from internationalist discourse, and become more deeply involved in Jewish politics. Using the main newspaper of the Yiddish anarchists, the Freie Arbeiter Stimme, I investigate two the effects of two events in particular: the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901 and the Russian Revolution of 1905. The assassination led to a wave of anti-anarchist sentiment and legislation that accelerated growing divisions within a mostly ambiguous Jewish radical movement made up of socialists and anarchists of all kind, atomizing different strains of radicals and leaving them more susceptible to ideological change. The Revolution of 1905 and its hundreds of pogroms brought that ideological change, shocking Jewish political movements everywhere and leading to the rapid growth of Jewish nationalism. Yiddish anarchists were some of the most fierce adherents of internationalism and the most estranged from Jewish politics, but they were nonetheless deeply affected by the shift and by nationalist discourse. The conjoined effects of the McKinley assassination and the 1905 Revolution were that Yiddish anarchism went from being a movement of Jews to a Jewish movement. |
| Supervisor | Miller, Michael Laurence |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/hahamovitch_reynolds.pdf |
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