PREFACE: The Optimists

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE: The Optimists ix
4. INTRODUCTION: Yiddish Passwords in the Age of Internationalism 1
5. 1 FROM THE YANGTZE TO THE BLACK SEA: Esther Shumiatcher’s Travels 39
6. 2 ANGRY WINDS: Jewish Leftists and the Challenge of Palestine 72
7. 3 SCOTTSBORO CROSS: Translating Pogroms to Lynchings 107
8. 4 NOPASARÁN: Jewish Collective Memory in the Spanish Civil War 139
9. 5 MY SONGS, MY DUMAS: Rewriting Ukraine 174
10. 6 TESHUVAH: Moishe Nadir’s Relocated Passwords 211
11. AFTERWORD: Kaddish 243
12. APPENDIX: Poems from the Age of Internationalism 251
13. NOTES 269
14. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 333
15. INDEX 337