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200 1. $a The Jewish worker in Russia $b Texte imprimé $f Yakov Leshchinsky $g translated by Robert Brym
214 .0 $a Bloomington (Ind.) $c Slavica Publishers $d 2018
215 .. $a 1 vol. (XIV-139 p.) $c ill. $d 24 cm
225 |. $a New approaches to Russian and East European Jewish culture $v 6
300 .. $a Index
300 .. $a Bibliogr. p. 133-136. Index
330 .. $a At the turn of the 20th century, the Russian Empire's 5.2 million Jews were in crisis.
Having quintupled in number since 1800, they were substantially impoverished and crammed
into Russia's 25 westernmost provinces. Some pinned their hopes on emigration, others
on being granted permission to live in the Russian interior. Some labored with hand
tools in dingy workshops, but most were forced to eke out a living as petty merchants
and paupers. Hardly any were able to find work in Russia's large, mechanized factories.0In
this context, the young Yakov Leshchinsky, influenced in equal measure by Marx and
the Zionist thinker Ahad Ha-am, embarked on a lifelong task of analyzing the fate
of the Jewish people. In 'The Jewish Worker in Russia' (1906), a combination political
pamphlet, theoretical excursus, and empirical analysis, he established a foundation
for the ideology of the Zionist Socialist Workers' Party, presaged modern sociological
concepts explaining the limited proletarianization and industrialization of the Jewish
working class, and gave substance to the theory by analyzing a large body of unique
statistical data, mainly from official sources and a quasi-census of Russian Jews
funded by the Jewish Colonization Association. It was a landmark work that underscored
the limitations of pure Marxism, Zionism, and liberalism; led eventually to the view
that Jews would be best off seeking democracy, socialism, and personal and cultural
autonomy in many geographical centers; and foretold the course of Leshchinsky's own
life and career as a founding father of Jewish social science, director of YIVO's
Economics and Statistics Department, and resident of Ukraine, Switzerland, Russia,
Poland, Germany, and the United States who spent his last years in Israel.0Translated
by Robert Brym
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