Description:
Jews became involved in radical politics to transform society but also out of a desire to belong. For the first time, this volume centers radical Jewish politics in the Middle East and North Africa and puts this history into conversation with developments in the Americas, South Africa, Soviet Asia, and Europe.
Review Quotes: "Placing the Middle East and North Africa at its center, this important volume challenges conventional geographies and the conception of Jewish radicalism itself. It shows how colonialism, and in turn anticolonial movements, drove Jews to embrace radical politics as they navigated the rise of the nation state and their future in it."--Elizabeth E. Imber "author of Uncertain Empire: Jews, Nationalism, and the Fate of British Imperialism"