Class Struggle and the Jewish Nation

by Ber Borochov

Overview

This volume contains the first broad selection of essays made available in English by Ber Borochov, one of the leading intellectuals of the early Zionist movement. Borochov founded the Labor Zionist party in 1906, and was the pillar of the Israeli Labor party from whose ranks arose such figures as David Ben-Gurion and Itzhak Ben-Tsvi. He is best remembered for his ability to synthesize socialism and nationalism.Borochov argues that early Marxist theory failed to understand the causes of nationalism and views it only as a temporary phenomenon. Borochov tried to synthesize socialism with Jewish nationalism. Zionism was a movement necessary to free oppressed Eastern European Jews and permit them to further socialist ideals in their own nation-state. The dilemma is that socialist internationalism requires national culture to be of no further value once a socialist victory occurs in a country. Borochov's essays provide an important, if largely unknown perspective on these questions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138508194
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/18/2020
Series:	Judaica
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ber Borochov (Author)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Ber Borochov and Socialist Zionism Mitchell Cohen 1

1 On Questions of Zionist Theory 35

2 The National Question and the Class Struggle 51

3 Our Platform 75

4 The Jubilee of the Jewish Labor Movement 105

5 Anti-Zionist Front 111

6 Jewish Anti-Semitism 123

7 Difficulties of Poale Zionism 129

8 The Aims of Yiddish Philology 135

9 Hebraismus Militans 143

10 National Helplessness versus National Self-Help 147

11 Two Currents in Poale Zionism 151

12 The Socialism of Poale Zion Here 155

13 Healthy and Sick Socialism 163

14 The Economic Development of the Jewish People 167

15 The Terrorist and the Shomer 179

16 Reminiscences: On the Occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the Poale Zion in Russia, 1906-16 183

17 At the Cradle of Zionist Socialism 187

18 A. Lieberman: Father of Jewish Socialism 191

19 Facing Reality 197

20 Eretz Israel in Our Program and Tactics 201

Appendix: Declaration to the Hollando-Scandinavian Socialist Committee Submitted by the Jewish Socialist Labor Confederation Poale Zion 205

Glossary 215