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Jack Nusan Porter's writings date back to 1966, during the height of the Vietnam War. He describes the anguished struggle against war, racism, and poverty, as well as the radical groups and individuals involved-Jewish socialists, radical Zionists, radical Jews, Rabbi Meir Kahane and the Jewish Defense League, the counterculture, liberals, and conservatives alike. In addition, his writings vividly recount the anti-Zionist, anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, and revolutionary terrorism of the times. Here, Porter draws from the past in an effort to explain the present, walking the precarious bridge between allegiance to Israel and the Jewish people and the universal rights of all people. This collection of older and newer essays combines theory, sociology, film studies, literary criticism, post-modern thought, and politics.

Author Biography

Jack Nusan Porterfounded the Jewish Student Movement in the 1960s and was editor of the classic movement anthology Jewish Radicalism. He is currently an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University and a former associate of Harvard's Ukrainian Research Institute. His run for US Congress in the 12th District of Massachusetts was the subject of a profile in an April 2012 issue of "Talk of the Town" in The New Yorker. In 2015, he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in the prediction and eradication of genocide.

Table of Contents

Preface by Shaul MagidIntroduction: The Roots of Jewish RadicalismI. Early Writings1. The Negro, the New Left, and the Hippy2. The New Left, The Black Man, and Israel3. Zionism, Racism, and the United Nations: Toward the Prostitution of Language4. Zionism: Liberation Movement of the Jewish People (by Yosef Tekoah)5. Zionism is Not Racism (by Morris U. Schappes)6. Talking Police Blues7. Student Protest and the Technocratic Society: The Case of ROTCII. Jewish Radicals: Theory8. The Jewish Rebel9. The Jewishness of Karl Marx10. Self-Hatred and Self-Esteem11. Can a Sociologist be a Revolutionist?III. Jewish Radicals: History12. Morris U. Schappes: Jewish Radical Historian-An Interview13. Martin Buber and the American Jewish Counterculture (with Yizhak Ahren)IV. Jewish Radicals: Praxis/Action14. Jewish Student Activism15. The Origins of the Jewish Student Movement: A Personal Reflection16. The Press of Freedom: To Uncle Tom and Other Such Jews (by M. Jay Rosenberg)V. Jewish Radicals on the Right: Meir Kahane and the JDL17. Jewish Conservative Backlash18. My Secret Days and Nights in the Jewish Defense League19. Letters: Kahane in New YorkVI. Neo-Nazism and Neo-Fascism20. Neo-Nazism, Neo-Fascism, and Terrorism: A Global Trend?21. A Nazi Runs for Mayor: Dangerous Brownshirts or Media Freaks?22. Neo-Nazis in the USA: An Interview (by Art Jahnke)VII. Radical Zionism23. My Days and Nights in Habonim24. Israel Needs a Social, Political, and Peaceful Revolution25. The End of Zionism?VIII. Radical Poetry and Prose26. The Ten Commandments of the Holocaust27. The Radical Poetry of Jack Nusan Porter: IntroductionMystic-Dedicated to Shlomo CarlebachThe ChildrenOde to Amerika: Observations on the "Chicago 7" Trial, 1969-1970What is a Jewish Radical?The Jewish PoetIX. Radical Cinema and Media28. Revolution and Rebellion in Film29. Dalton Trumbo and the Hollywood Ten: Their Legacy30. The Jew as Bourgeois31. David Mamet's Homicide: A Re-evaluation32. Is Hollywood Leftist and Anti-Frum (Orthodox)? A Response to Screenwriter Robert J. AvrechX. New Directions for Israel33. Ten Days on the West Bank: A New Year's Hope for Peace34. The Future of IsraelXI. New Directions in Presidential Politics35. The 2016 American Presidential Race: Where Do the Frontrunners Stand on Foreign Policy Issues?36. The Hidden Power of Donald and Bernie37. When Politics Meets HistoryXII. The Future of Jewish Radicalism38. The Impact of Jewish Radicalism39. Jewish Radicalism: A Classic Revisited 50 Years Later40. Building a Jewish Radical MovementConclusion: Toward a Post-Modern Radical Jewish CommunityBibliographyAbout the Author

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Author is a child Holocaust survivor whose parents were Soviet Partisans & refugees from Europe Founder of several fields: sociology of conflict, history of sociology, sociology of Jewry, genocide studies, sex and gender issues of genocide Winner of several major ASA awards Has made contributions to middleman theory, deviance, gay studies Nominated for Nobel Peace prize in 2015

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