Prophecy and Politics

'… will undoubtedly come to be regarded as the definitive political history of Russian Jews and left-wing nationalism in English or any other language.' The American Historical Review

• Preface; Glossary; Introduction; Part I. The Preparty Stage: 1. Dilemmas of the messianic conscience: Moses Hess and Aron Liberman; 2. The emergence of the new politics: the Russian-Jewish crisis, 1881–1882; Part II. The Party Ideologies Until 1907: 3. The politics of Jewish liberation, 1905–1906; 4. The Bund: between nation and class; 5. Chaim Zhitlovsky: Russian populist and Jewish socialist, 1887–1907; 6. Nachman Syrkin: on the populist abd prophetic strands in socialist Zionism, 1882–1907; 7. Ber Borochov and Marxist Zionism, 1903–1907; Part III. Ideology and Émigré Realities: 8. The revolutionary ethos in transition: Russian-Jewish youth in Palestine, 1904–1914; 9. Class war and community: the socialists in American-Jewish politics, 1897–1918; Note: The American Jewish Congress and Russian Jewry, 1915–1919; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.