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Book SynopsisJack 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 involved-Jewish socialists, radical Zionists, radical Jews, Rabbi Meir Kahane and the Jewish Defense League, hippies, liberals, and conservatives alike. In addition, the anti-Zionist, anti-Israel, anti-Semitic and revolutionary terrorism of the times are all vividly described.
Here, Porter draws from the past in order 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 old and new essays combines theory, sociology, film studies, literary criticism, post-modern thought, and politics to understand our present situation.
Table of Contents
- Preface by Shaul Magid
- Introduction: The Roots of Jewish Radicalism
- I. Early Writings
- 1. The Negro, the New Left, and the Hippy
- 2. The New Left, The Black Man, and Israel
- 3. Zionism, Racism, and the United Nations: Toward the Prostitution of Language
- 4. Zionism: Liberation Movement of the Jewish People (by Yosef Tekoah)
- 5. Zionism is Not Racism (by Morris U. Schappes)
- 6. Talking Police Blues
- 7. Student Protest and the Technocratic Society: The Case of ROTC
- II. Jewish Radicals: Theory
- 8. The Jewish Rebel
- 9. The Jewishness of Karl Marx
- 10. Self-Hatred and Self-Esteem
- 11. Can a Sociologist be a Revolutionist?
- III. Jewish Radicals: History
- 12. Morris U. Schappes: Jewish Radical Historian-An Interview
- 13. Martin Buber and the American Jewish Counterculture (with Yizhak Ahren)
- IV. Jewish Radicals: Praxis/Action
- 14. Jewish Student Activism
- 15. The Origins of the Jewish Student Movement: A Personal Reflection
- 16. 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 JDL
- 17. Jewish Conservative Backlash
- 18. My Secret Days and Nights in the Jewish Defense League
- 19. Letters: Kahane in New York
- VI. Neo-Nazism and Neo-Fascism
- 20. 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 Zionism
- 23. My Days and Nights in Habonim
- 24. Israel Needs a Social, Political, and Peaceful Revolution
- 25. The End of Zionism?
- VIII. Radical Poetry and Prose
- 26. The Ten Commandments of the Holocaust
- 27. The Radical Poetry of Jack Nusan Porter: Introduction
- Mystic-Dedicated to Shlomo Carlebach
- The Children
- Ode to Amerika: Observations on the "Chicago 7" Trial, 1969-1970
- What is a Jewish Radical?
- The Jewish Poet
- IX. Radical Cinema and Media
- 28. Revolution and Rebellion in Film
- 29. Dalton Trumbo and the Hollywood Ten: Their Legacy
- 30. The Jew as Bourgeois
- 31. David Mamet's Homicide: A Re-evaluation
- 32. Is Hollywood Leftist and Anti-Frum (Orthodox)? A Response to Screenwriter Robert J. Avrech
- X. New Directions for Israel
- 33. Ten Days on the West Bank: A New Year's Hope for Peace
- 34. The Future of Israel
- XI. New Directions in Presidential Politics
- 35. The 2016 American Presidential Race: Where Do the Frontrunners Stand on Foreign Policy Issues?
- 36. The Hidden Power of Donald and Bernie
- 37. When Politics Meets History
- XII. The Future of Jewish Radicalism
- 38. The Impact of Jewish Radicalism
- 39. Jewish Radicalism: A Classic Revisited 50 Years Later
- 40. Building a Jewish Radical Movement
- Conclusion: Toward a Post-Modern Radical Jewish Community
- Bibliography
- About the Author
