Jack Jacobs Collection of the Jewish Voice newspapers

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Identifier: 7098 PUBS

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Scope and Contents

The Jack Jacobs Collection of the Jewish Voice newspapers comprises the seven volumes of the monthly leftist newspaper, Jewish Voice, published by the National Council of Jewish Communists at 35 East 12th St., New York City, covering the period from February 1941 to January 1942. Editors include Israel Amter, a founding member of the Communist Party in the United States (CPUSA); Ruben Saltzman, who was editing the “From Month to Month” column; Robert Minor, a leading CPUSA figure, cartoonist, and editor; Alexander Bittelman, a Jewish communist theorist in the US and contributor to the New York City-based daily Yiddish Communist newspaper Morgen Freiheit; James W. Ford, a Black CPUSA leader; Rose Wortis, the Ukrainian born Jewish American labor organizer, CPUSA activist, and writer; Max Steinberg, Jewish labor-left activist; Earl Browder, the General Secretary of the CPUSA from 1930 to 1945; Paul Norwick, the editor in chief of Morgen Freiheit from 1939 until its closure in 1988; John Arnold, CPUSA editor; among other contributors. Topics covered in these volumes include discrimination issues against Black and Jewish people, the role of progressive forces in the American Federation of Labor, labor issues affecting Jewish workers, the mission of the Morgen Freiheit, the traditions and historical background of American Jewish communities, and analyses of Hitlerism.

Dates

February 1941 to January 1942

Creator

National Council of Jewish Communists (U.S.) (Organization)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English.

Biographical / Historical

Jack Jacobs is Professor of Political Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. He is also the Executive Officer of the Graduate Center’s Program in Political Science. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He is the author of the following books: On Socialists and “The Jewish Question” after Marx (New York University Press, 1992); Bundist Counterculture in Interwar Poland (Syracuse University Press, 2009); and The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He is the editor of Jewish Politics in Eastern Europe: The Bund at 100, published by New York University Press (2001), and Jews and Leftist Politics. Judaism, Israel, Antisemitism, and Gender, published by Cambridge University Press (2017). Jacobs’s scholarship focuses on Marxism, Critical Theory, Jewish political thought, and movements.

Extent

0.5 cubic feet. (oversize flat box)

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Abstract

The Jack Jacobs Collection of the Jewish Voice newspapers consists of the monthly leftist newspaper Jewish Voice, published by the National Council of Jewish Communists in New York City from February 1941 to January 1942.