Dark times, dire decisions : Jews and Communism / edited by Jonathan Frankel ; guest symposium editor, Dan Diner.

Papers contributed to a symposium held at the Simon-Dubnow-Institut für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur, Nov. 2001.

Includes bibliographical references.

Jews and Communism : the utopian temptation / Dan Diner and Jonathan Frankel -- Jews and the Communist movement in interwar Poland / Jaff Schatz -- Jews and Communism : the Hungarian case / István Deák -- The Yiddish-language Communist press / Gennady Estraikh -- The Moscow State Yiddish Theater as a cultural and political phenomenon / Jeffrey Veidlinger -- Jews, Communism and art in interwar America / Ezra Mendelsohn -- Between insularity and internationalism : the lost world of the Jewish Communist "cultural workers" in America / Alan Wald -- Party recruitment : Jews and Communism in Britain / Jason L. Heppell -- On Jews, Frenchmen, Communists, and the Second World War / Renée Poznanski -- After Auschwitz : the reality and meaning of postwar antisemitism in Poland / Jan T. Gross -- Jews and Communists in the Islamic world : a note on Abraham Serfaty and Henri Curiel / Walter Laqueur -- From Zionism to Communism and back : the case of Moshe Sneh (1948-1967) / Pinhas Ginossar -- A German Jewish Communist of the second generation : the changing personae of Klaus Gysi / Karin Hartewig -- Essay -- The "orthodox" orthography of Solomon Birnbaum / Kalman Weiser -- Review essays -- The face of modern orthodoxy / Michael Rosenak -- Sheerit Hapeletah : between destruction and rebirth / Haim Genizi -- Still more books about Jerusalem / Ira Sharkansky.