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Author: Adi Mahalel

Yiddish and Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz (1852–1915) was a major leader of Eastern European Jewry in the years prior to World War I, and was deeply involved in Jewish politics and communal life throughout his lifetime. In The Radical Isaac, Adi Mahalel examines a central part of his life and art that has often been neglected, namely, his close alignment with the needs of the Jewish working-class and his deep devotion to progressive politics. Although there have been numerous studies of Peretz and his work, this very central component of his life nonetheless remains severely understudied. By offering close readings of the “radical” Peretz, Mahalel recasts the way political activism is understood in scholarly evaluations of the writer’s work. Employing a partly chronological, partly thematic scheme, Mahalel follows Peretz’s radicalism from its inception and then through the various ways in which it was synchronically expressed during this intense period of history.

The Radical Isaac I L Peretz and the Rise of Jewish Socialism SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Education, Professions, and Literary Proclamations: Peretz between Warsaw Positivism and Proto-Socialism

• Bildung for the Masses, Professions for the Common People
• Peretz’s Yiddish Literary Proclamations of the Early 1890s: “In Postvogn” and Bilder fun a Provints Rayze
• “In Postvogn”: Creating a New Path for Yiddish Literature
• State of the Nation on the Road
• Storytelling
• Liberalism Revised
• From the Province to the City and Back
• Representing Poverty
• The Journey to the Provinces
• Fire and Insanity in the Shtetl
• Insanity
• Fire

Chapter 2: A Radical Shift: Becoming a Social-Protest Writer

• You Know That You Can Count Me In
• Bontshe Shvayg: The Workers Will Not Be Silent
• Weaving the Revolution
• Anger Is an Energy: Jewish Women in Peretz’s Work
• Revolutionizing the Means of Artistic Production and Radicalizing the Jewish Calendar in the Yontef bletlekh

Chapter 3: “To Be a Fighter with Both Fists!”: Peretz the Radical Hebrew Writer

• Radical Hebrew Arrows
• Socialism in Hebrew before Peretz
• The Prose of The Arrow
• “Beating Their Heads against the Wall”: Satirizing the Choveve Tsiyon in Hebrew and in Yiddish
• “The Audacity to Demand Realism”: Peretz and the New Wave of Hebrew Literature
• Peretz’s Major Hebrew Prose and 1890s Creations: The Poor Will Remain Silent
• Coda

Chapter 4: On Love and Class War: Peretz’s 1890s Hebrew and Yiddish Poetry

• The Socialist Prophet
• Writing Hebrew Poetry: Early Years as a Poet
• Yiddish Socialist Poetry and Political Poetry
• Peretz’s Poetry in the Context of Socialist Yiddish Poetry
• Collecting “Jewish Folklore”
• Among Marx, Heine, and Peretz

Chapter 5: Between Liberal Satire and Socialist Roots: Peretz’s Hasidic Creations of the 1890s

• Peretz and Religious Figures: The Beginning
• Faith and Revolution, Secularism, and Imperialism
• Making Sense of the Ridiculous, Confronting Materialist Faith
• Keep Lifting Me Higher and Higher
• “Between Two Mountains”: Dreaming of an Ethnic-Class Jewish Identity

Conclusion

Appendixes

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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