Essential papers on Jews and the Left / edited by Ezra Mendelsohn.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Life and opinions of Moses Hess / Isaiah Berlin -- Roots of Jewish socialism (1881-1892) / Jonathan Frankel -- Regional factors in the formation of the Jewish labor movement in Czarist Russia / Moshe Mishkinsky -- Reassessment of the national question / Henry Tobias -- Ber Borokhov / Matityahu Mintz -- Social and intellectual origins of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement, 1913-1920 / Elkana Margalit -- Bund in Polish political life, 1935-1939 / Antony Polonsky -- Political mobilization and institution building in the Yishuv / Dan Horowitz and Moshe Lissak -- Black night; white snow / Anita Shapira -- Grandson of the Haskalah / Israel Getzler -- Role of the Jews in the Russian revolutionary movement / Leonard Schapiro -- Ties that bind / Arthur Liebman -- Was Marx an anti-Semite? / Edmund Silberner -- Marx and Jewish emancipation / Shlomo Avineri -- Black Repartition and the pogroms of 1881-1882 / Moshe Mishkinsky -- Soviet regime and anti-Zionism / Jonathan Frankel -- Karl Kautsky / Jack Jacobs