The Radical Writings of Jack Nusan Porter by Jack Nusan …, Pasir Ris

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Pages: 314
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Jack Nusan Porter’s writings date back to 1966, during the height of the Vietnam War. He describes the anguished struggle against war, racism, and poverty, as well as the radical groups and individuals involved—Jewish socialists, radical Zionists, radical Jews, Rabbi Meir Kahane and the Jewish Defense League, the counterculture, liberals, and conservatives alike. In addition, his writings vividly recount the anti-Zionist, anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, and revolutionary terrorism of the times. Here, Porter draws from the past in an effort to explain the present, walking the precarious bridge between allegiance to Israel and the Jewish people and the universal rights of all people. This collection of older and newer essays combines theory, sociology, film studies, literary criticism, post-modern thought, and politics.Author is a child Holocaust survivor whose parents were Soviet Partisans & refugees from EuropeFounder of several fields: sociology of conflict, history of sociology, sociology of Jewry, genocide studies, sex and gender issues of genocideWinner of several major ASA awardsHas made contributions to middleman theory, deviance, gay studiesNominated for Nobel Peace prize in 2015Porter draws from the past to explain the present, walking the precarious bridge between allegiance to Israel and the Jewish people and the universal rights of all people. This collection combines theory, sociology, film studies, literary criticism, post-modern thought, and politics to understand our present situation.Jack Nusan Porter founded the Jewish Student Movement in the 1960s and was editor of the classic movement anthology Jewish Radicalism. He is currently an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University and a former associate of Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute. His run for US Congress in the 12th District of Massachusetts was the subject of a profile in an April 2012 issue of “Talk of the Town” in The New Yorker. In 2015, he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in the prediction and eradication of genocide.Table of ContentsPreface by Shaul MagidIntroduction: The Roots of Jewish RadicalismI. Early Writings1. The Negro, the New Left, and the Hippy2. The New Left, The Black Man, and Israel3. Zionism, Racism, and the United Nations: Toward the Prostitution of Language4. Zionism: Liberation Movement of the Jewish People (by Yosef Tekoah)5. Zionism is Not Racism (by Morris U. Schappes)6. Talking Police Blues7. Student Protest and the Technocratic Society: The Case of ROTCII. Jewish Radicals: Theory8. The Jewish Rebel9. The Jewishness of Karl Marx10. Self-Hatred and Self-Esteem11. Can a Sociologist be a Revolutionist?III. Jewish Radicals: History12. Morris U. Schappes: Jewish Radical Hist