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100 1 $aCassedy, Steven.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84142902
245 10 $aTo the other shore :$bthe Russian Jewish intellectuals who came to America /$cSteven Cassedy.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$c1997.
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300 $axxiii, 197 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$t"We Were Not Jews": Being Russian --$gCh. 2.$t"In Chernyshevsky's Kheyder": Being Nihilists --$gCh. 3.$t"Critically Thinking Individuals": Going to the People --$gCh. 4.$t"A Crisis of Identity": The Pogroms and After --$gCh. 5.$tComing to Shore --$gCh. 6.$t"We Are Russian Workers and Besides in America": Writing in Russian --$gCh. 7.$t"We Are Jews" - At Least, You Are: Writing in Yiddish --$gCh. 8.$t"We Are Americans": Writing in English --$gCh. 9.$tAmerican Realism: Life, Thought, and Art.
520 $aTo the Other Shore tells the story of a small but influential group of Jewish intellectuals who immigrated to the United States from the Russian Empire between 1881 and the early 1920s - the era of "mass immigration." This pioneer group of Jewish intellectuals, many of whom were raised in Orthodox homes, abandoned their Jewish identity, absorbed the radical political theories circulating in nineteenth-century Russia, and brought those theories with them to America.
520 8 $aWhen they became leaders in the labor movement in the United States and wrote for the Yiddish-, Russian-, and English-language radical press, they generally retained the secularized Russian cultural identity they had adopted in their homeland, together with their commitment to socialist theories.
520 8 $aThis group included Abraham Cahan, longtime editor of The Jewish Daily Forward and one of the most influential Jews in America during the first half of this century; Morris Hillquit, a founding figure of the American socialist movement; Michael Zametkin and his wife, Adella Kean, both journalists and labor activists in the early decades of this century; and Chaim Zhitlovsky, one of the most important Yiddish writers in modern times.
520 8 $aThese immigrants were part of the generation of Jewish intellectuals that preceded the better-known New York Intellectuals of the late 1920s and 1930s - the group chronicled in Irving Howe's World of Our Fathers. In To the Other Shore, Steven Cassedy offers a broad, clear-eyed portrait of the early Jewish emigre intellectuals in America and the Russian cultural and political doctrines that inspired them.
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650 0 $aJews, Russian$zUnited States$xIntellectual life.
650 0 $aJews$zUnited States$xIntellectual life.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008122307
650 0 $aJews$xCultural assimilation$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106113
650 0 $aJewish radicals$zUnited States.
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