The only quibble I would have with the article was that the pogroms from 1881 on, more than the Dreyfus Affair, spurred the birth of Zionism.

[ December 22, 2002: Message edited by: josh ]

[ December 22, 2002: Message edited by: josh ]

Of course the massification of pogroms in Russia and Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th century was a reaction to a general rise in social movements, and using Jews as a convenient scapegoat. In that sense the "industrialisation" of pogroms (planning and encouraging them) was a thoroughly modern phenomenon.

Unfortunately I don't read Hebrew script, so I can't read the original Yiddish text. Thus a translation - into English or French (or Spanish or Italian, though fewer babblers could read it...). I can read German a bit too, but not very well.

(Edited to add, avoiding double post...):

Another work that had the same quality of being written from within the Holocaust, so to speak, is the last few paintings by German painter Felix Nussbaum. Here is a column by Robert Fulford on his work: http://www.robertfulford.com/Nussbaum.html

There are also many high-quality reproductions of his work available on the web. In a sense Nussbaum did in pictures, and for Western, German-speaking Jewry something similar to the written work of Yiddish-speaking Katznelson in the East, literally hidden away from the destruction neither of these artists were able to escape.

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