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- Title
'To what extent do we influence reality?'.
- Authors
Manor, Ehud
- Abstract
Surprising as it might sound, considering the known political history of the US, socialism managed to find a place in this busy environment as well. Jews were among the main contributors to the emergence of American socialism. Two of them were Abraham Cahan and Morris Hillquit. They had both come from Russia in the 1880s. They were both proud - though critical - American citizens and New Yorkers. Both were active within the Socialist Party of America and among the Jewish masses of New York. Yet despite their apparent cooperation, they were actually working for opposing goals. Cahan was using socialism as a tool for recreating a sort of 'spiritual ghetto' in the minds of his followers, while Hillquit was trying to use Yiddish socialism as part of his quest for a stronger and greater American socialism. The 1917 mayoral campaign allows us to form a better understanding of an enduring historical question, reflected in this political cooperation of divergent currents.
- Subjects
NEW York (N.Y.); UNITED States; JEWS; SOCIALISM &; Judaism; NEW York (N.Y.) politics &; government, 1898-1951; NEW York City mayors; CAHAN, Abraham, 1860-1951; HILLQUIT, Morris, 1869-1933; SOCIALISM; JEWISH Daily Forward (Newspaper); POLITICAL participation; TWENTIETH century; ELECTIONS; HISTORY of socialism
- Publication
Socialist History, 2015, Issue 46, p14
- ISSN
0969-4331
- Publication type
Article