{"id":51405,"date":"2026-02-10T18:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T18:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=51405"},"modified":"2026-02-10T18:22:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T18:22:59","slug":"benjamin-balthaser-citizens-of-the-whole-world-anti-zionism-and-the-cultures-of-the-american-jewish-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=51405","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Balthaser, \u201eCitizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>After a tumultuous century, the Jewish radical tradition lives on in the United States<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Since October 7, 2023, the world has witnessed a massive American Jewish uprising in support of Palestinian liberation. Through sit-ins in Congress or Grand Central Terminal, through petitions and marches, thousands of Jews have made it known the Israeli state is not acting in their name. This resistance did not come out of nowhere.&nbsp;<em>Citizens of the Whole World<\/em>&nbsp;returns us to its roots in the \u201cred decade\u201d of the 1930s and, from there, traces the history of American Jewish radicals and revolutionaries to the present day.<br><br>Benjamin Balthaser delves into radical Jewish novels and memoirs, as well as interviews with Jewish revolutionaries, to unearth a buried if nonetheless unbroken continuity between leftist Jewish Americans and the diasporic internation\u00adalism of today.<br><br>Covering more than just the politics of anti-Zionism,&nbsp;<em>Citizens of the Whole World<\/em>&nbsp;explores the Jewish revolutionary traditions of Marxist internationalism, Jewish solidarity with Third World struggles, and relations between Jewish and Black radicals during the Civil Rights era.<br><br>Balthaser\u2019s book stages an intervention into current anti-Zionist politics, suggesting activists can learn from past struggles to help form a future politics in a world after Zionism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Benjamin Balthaser<\/strong>&#8216;s critical and creative work explores the connections among radical U.S. social movements, racial and class formation, internationalism, and culture. He is the author of\u00a0<em>Anti-Imperialist Modernism: Race and Radical Transnational Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War\u00a0<\/em>(University of Michigan Press, 2016) and\u00a0<em>Dedication\u00a0<\/em>(Partisan Press, 2011). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as\u00a0<em>American Quarterly<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Historical Materialism<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Boston Review<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Jacobin<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Shofar<\/em>\u00a0and elsewhere. He is currently associate professor of multi-ethnic U.S. literature at Indiana University, South Bend, and associate editor of\u00a0<em>American Quarterly<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>320 pages \/ July 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/products\/2788-citizens-of-the-whole-world\">https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/products\/2788-citizens-of-the-whole-world<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CITIZE1.jpg?fit=210%2C210&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52625,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=52625","url_meta":{"origin":51405,"position":0},"title":"Omer Bartov, \u201eIsrael: What Went Wrong?\u201c","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"23. travnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Professor Omer Bartov was born on a kibbutz, grew up in Tel Aviv and served in the Israel Defence Forces during the Yom Kippur War. 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