Radical Jewish Politics: A Global Perspective by Nathaniel Deutsch and Alma Rachel Heckman bilingual By placing literary Chelm and

By placing literary Chelm and its “foolish” antecedents in a broader historical context

and an enchanting behind-the-scenes look at four generations of people who are just a little bit crazy on the subject of fish

he wrote his last story

as well as selections from three of Mendele's greatest novels

and gambling

Radical Jewish Politics: A Global Perspective by Nathaniel Deutsch and Alma Rachel Heckman bilingual By placing literary Chelm andFor the first time, this volume centers the rich but little known history of radical Jewish politics in the Middle East and North Africa and puts it into conversation with developments in the Americas, South Africa, Soviet Asia, and Europe. Jews were attracted to radical politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to transform the societies they lived in but also out of a deep desire to belong. Somewhat paradoxically, then, radical politics