Building the Future: Jewish Immigrant Intellectuals and the Making of Tsukunft
  • 1999/316 pages
  • Distributed for Holmes & Meier Publishers
    Includes photographs

Building the Future:

Jewish Immigrant Intellectuals and the Making of Tsukunft

Steven Cassedy, editor and translator
Hardcover: $39.50
ISBN: 978-0-8419-1372-1
First published in 1892, Di Tsukunft [The Future]—the world's oldest and longest-running Yiddish publication—was touted as a sophisticated monthly that would enlighten Jewish immigrants with its political savvy and intellectual content. Steven Cassedy has gathered and translated articles from Di Tsukunft’s inception through 1914, providing an invaluable window into Jewish progressive thought in the US at the turn of the century, and allowing us to trace the process by which this intellectual elite, with its imported Russian cultural identity, adjusted to the ever-evolving milieu of a new nation.



Steven Cassedy is professor of Slavic and comparative literature at the University of California, San Diego. His publications include To the Other Shore: The Russian Jewish Intellectuals Who Came to America and Waking Up Modern: American Consciousness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century.

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