Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Jack Nusan Porter founded the Jewish Student Movement in the 1960s and was editor of the classic movement anthology Jewish Radicalism. He is currently an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University and a former associate of Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute. His run for US Congress in the 12th District of Massachusetts was the subject of a profile in an April 2012 issue of “Talk of the Town” in The New Yorker. In 2015, he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in the prediction and eradication of genocide.
Here, Porter draws from the past in order to explain the present, walking the precarious bridge between allegiance to Israel and the Jewish people and the universal rights of all people. This collection of old and new essays combines theory, sociology, film studies, literary criticism, post-modern thought, and politics to understand our present situation.
- Preface by Shaul Magid
- Introduction: The Roots of Jewish Radicalism
- I. Early Writings
- 1. The Negro, the New Left, and the Hippy
- 2. The New Left, The Black Man, and Israel
- 3. Zionism, Racism, and the United Nations: Toward the Prostitution of Language
- 4. Zionism: Liberation Movement of the Jewish People (by Yosef Tekoah)
- 5. Zionism is Not Racism (by Morris U. Schappes)
- 6. Talking Police Blues
- 7. Student Protest and the Technocratic Society: The Case of ROTC
- II. Jewish Radicals: Theory
- 8. The Jewish Rebel
- 9. The Jewishness of Karl Marx
- 10. Self-Hatred and Self-Esteem
- 11. Can a Sociologist be a Revolutionist?
- III. Jewish Radicals: History
- 12. Morris U. Schappes: Jewish Radical Historian-An Interview
- 13. Martin Buber and the American Jewish Counterculture (with Yizhak Ahren)
- IV. Jewish Radicals: Praxis/Action
- 14. Jewish Student Activism
- 15. The Origins of the Jewish Student Movement: A Personal Reflection
- 16. The Press of Freedom: To Uncle Tom and Other Such Jews (by M. Jay Rosenberg)
- V. Jewish Radicals on the Right: Meir Kahane and the JDL
- 17. Jewish Conservative Backlash
- 18. My Secret Days and Nights in the Jewish Defense League
- 19. Letters: Kahane in New York
- VI. Neo-Nazism and Neo-Fascism
- 20. Neo-Nazism, Neo-Fascism, and Terrorism: A Global Trend?
- 21. A Nazi Runs for Mayor: Dangerous Brownshirts or Media Freaks?
- 22. Neo-Nazis in the USA: An Interview (by Art Jahnke)
- VII. Radical Zionism
- 23. My Days and Nights in Habonim
- 24. Israel Needs a Social, Political, and Peaceful Revolution
- 25. The End of Zionism?
- VIII. Radical Poetry and Prose
- 26. The Ten Commandments of the Holocaust
- 27. The Radical Poetry of Jack Nusan Porter: Introduction
- Mystic-Dedicated to Shlomo Carlebach
- The Children
- Ode to Amerika: Observations on the "Chicago 7" Trial, 1969-1970
- What is a Jewish Radical?
- The Jewish Poet
- IX. Radical Cinema and Media
- 28. Revolution and Rebellion in Film
- 29. Dalton Trumbo and the Hollywood Ten: Their Legacy
- 30. The Jew as Bourgeois
- 31. David Mamet's Homicide: A Re-evaluation
- 32. Is Hollywood Leftist and Anti-Frum (Orthodox)? A Response to Screenwriter Robert J. Avrech
- X. New Directions for Israel
- 33. Ten Days on the West Bank: A New Year's Hope for Peace
- 34. The Future of Israel
- XI. New Directions in Presidential Politics
- 35. The 2016 American Presidential Race: Where Do the Frontrunners Stand on Foreign Policy Issues?
- 36. The Hidden Power of Donald and Bernie
- 37. When Politics Meets History
- XII. The Future of Jewish Radicalism
- 38. The Impact of Jewish Radicalism
- 39. Jewish Radicalism: A Classic Revisited 50 Years Later
- 40. Building a Jewish Radical Movement
- Conclusion: Toward a Post-Modern Radical Jewish Community
- Bibliography
- About the Author
“Jack Nusan Porter has devoted more than half a century to studying and advocating Jewish radicalism. His collected writings—many little-known and some previously unpublished—illuminate many aspects of the radical tradition in American Jewish life, including its complex relationship to Israel and similarities between yesterday’s radical Jews and their counterparts of today. A unique contribution.”
—Jonathan D. Sarna, University Professor and Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Jack Nusan Porter founded the Jewish Student Movement in the 1960s and was editor of the classic movement anthology Jewish Radicalism. He is currently an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University and a former associate of Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute. His run for US Congress in the 12th District of Massachusetts was the subject of a profile in an April 2012 issue of “Talk of the Town” in The New Yorker. In 2015, he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in the prediction and eradication of genocide.