REVIEWS of Books by Henry Srebrnik

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London Jews and British Communism, 1935 - 1945:

Dreams of Nationhood:

(This review, from the Canadian Jewish News, is also available online.)

Jerusalem on the Amur:

Creating the Chupah: The Zionist Movement and the Drive for Jewish Community Unity in Canada, 1898-1921:

Selected Academic Publications

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Henry F. Srebrnik

Professor of Political Studies, University of Prince Edward Island

Books

Henry Felix Srebrnik, Creating the Chupah: The Zionist Movement and the Drive for Jewish Communal Unity in Canada, 1898-1921 (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2011)

Henry Felix Srebrnik, Dreams of Nationhood: American Jewish Communists and the Soviet Birobidzhan Project, 1924-1951 (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2010)

Henry Felix Srebrnik, Jerusalem on the Amur: Birobidzhan and the Canadian Jewish Communist Movement, 1924-1951 (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008)

Henry Felix Srebrnik, London Jews and British Communism, 1935-1945 (London: Frank Cass / Vallentine Mitchell, 1995)

Tozun Bahcheli, Barry Bartmann and Henry Srebrnik, eds., De Facto States: The Quest For Sovereignty (London: Routledge, 2004)

Refereed Articles, Book Chapters and Monographs

"Territorialism and the ICOR Commission to the Soviet Far East," in Hasia Diner and Gennady Estraikh, eds., 1929: Mapping the Jewish World (New York: New York University Press) (forthcoming 2012).

“‘An Enemy of the Jewish Masses’: The ICOR and the Campaign Against Zionism, 1924-1935,” in August Grabski, ed., Rebels Against Zion: Studies on the Jewish Left Anti-Zionism (Warsaw: Jewish Historical Institute, 2011): 89-109.

“American Rabbis, Pastors and Left Jewish Activists in Support of the Birobidzhan Project in the 1930s,” in Ber Boris Kotlerman, ed., Mizrekh: Jewish Studies in the Far East Vol. 2 (Bern: Peter Lang Publishers, 2010): 69-95.

“‘The Jews Do Not Want War!’: American Jewish Communists Defend the Hitler-Stalin Pact, 1939-1941,” American Communist History 8, 1, 2009: 49-71.

“‘Next Year in Birobidzhan!’ The Messianic Rhetoric of Jewish Communists in the Search for a New Zion,” in Ulrich van der Heyden and Andreas Feldtkeller, eds., Border Crossings: Explorations of an Interdisciplinary Historian. Festschrift for Irving Hexham (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008): 305-317.

“Football, Frats, and Fun vs. Commuters, Cold, and Carping: The Social and Psychological Context of Higher Education in Canada and the United States” (with David Thomas), in David Thomas and Barbara Boyle Torrey, eds., Canada and the United States: Differences That Count, 3rd edn., (Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2008): 61-85; earlier version in Thomas, ed., Canada and the United States: Differences That Count, 2nd edn., (Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2000): 165-191; original version in Thomas, ed., Canada and the United States (Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 1993): 380-406.

“Indo-Fijians: Marooned Without Land and Power in a South Pacific Archipelago?” in Parvati Raghuram et al, Tracing an Indian Diaspora: Contexts, Memories, Representations (New Delhi: Sage, 2008): 75-95.

“Introduction: A New World of Emerging States” (with Barry Bartmann and Tozun Bahcheli), in Tozun Bahcheli et al, eds., De Facto States: The Quest For Sovereignty (London: Routledge, 2004): 1-11.

“Can Clans Form States? Somaliland in the Making,” in Tozun Bahcheli et al, eds., De Facto States: The Quest For Sovereignty (London: Routledge, 2004): 210-231.

“Conclusion: States in Waiting, Nations Tired of Waiting” (with Barry Bartmann and Tozun Bahcheli), in Tozun Bahcheli et al, eds., De Facto States: The Quest For Sovereignty (London: Routledge, 2004): 245-256.

“Small Island Nations and Democratic Values,” World Development 32, 2, 2004: 329-341.

“Birobidzhan on the Prairies: Two Decades of Pro-Soviet Jewish Movements in Winnipeg,” in Daniel Stone, ed., Jewish Radicalism in Winnipeg, 1905-1960 (Jewish Life and Times, Vol. 8) (Winnipeg: Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada, 2003): 172-191.

“Such Stuff as Diaspora Dreams Are Made On: Birobidzhan and the Canadian-Jewish Communist Imagination,” Canadian Jewish Studies 10, 2002: 75-107.

“‘Full of Sound and Fury’: Three Decades of Parliamentary Politics in Mauritius,” Journal of Southern African Studies 28, 2, 2002 : 277-289.

“Ethnicity, Religion, and the Issue of Aboriginality in a Small Island State: Why Does Fiji Flounder?” Round Table: the Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs 364, 2002: 187-210.

“Mini-Nationalism, Self-Determination and Micro-States in a Globalized World,”Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism/Revue Canadienne des Etudes sur le Nationalisme

“Diaspora, Ethnicity and Dreams of Nationhood: North American Jewish Communists and the Soviet Birobidzhan Project,” in Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, eds., Yiddish and the Left (Oxford: Legenda Press of the European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, 2001): 80-108.

“Identity, Culture and Confidence in the Global Economy,” in Godfrey Baldacchino and David Milne, eds., Lessons from the Political Economy of Small Islands: The Resourcefulness of Jurisdiction (London: Macmillan, 2000): 56-72.

“Can an Ethnically-based Civil Society Succeed? The Case of

Mauritius

,” Journal of Contemporary African Studies 18, 1, 2000: 7-20.

“Ethnicity and the Development of a ‘Middleman’ Economy on Mauritius: The Diaspora Factor,” Round Table: the Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs 350, 1999: 297-311.

“Red Star Over Birobidzhan: Canadian Jewish Communists and the ‘Jewish Autonomous Region’ in the Soviet Union,” Labour/Le Travail 44, 1999: 129-147; reprinted in Richard Menkis and Norman Ravvin, eds., The Canadian Jewish Studies Reader (Calgary and Montreal: Red Deer Press and the Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, 2004): 241-263.

“Vandals at the Garden’s Gates? Political Reaction to the Maritime Union Proposal on Prince Edward Island,” American Review of Canadian Studies 28, 1-2, 1998: 83-101.

Canada

Confronts Secession: Will Quebec Become the First New Nation of the 21^st Century?, Occasional Paper No. 9 (Bowling Green, OH: Canadian Studies Center, Bowling Green State University, [1998]).

“An Idiosyncratic Fellow-Traveller: Vilhjalmur Stefansson and the American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Birobidzhan,” East European Jewish Affairs 28, 1, 1998: 37-53.

“Leadership and Control Within an American Jewish Communist Front: The Case of the ICOR,” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 16, 3, 1998: 103-117.

“Is the Past Prologue?: The Old-New Discourse of the Reform Party of

Canada

,” International Social Science Review 72, 1-2, 1997: 5-13.

“Revisiting the Impossible Dream? The Political Union Debate in Atlantic Canada,” (with Geoffrey Martin), in David Taras and Beverly Rasporich, eds., A Passion for Identity: An Introduction to Canadian Studies, 3rd edn. (Toronto: ITP Nelson, 1997): 355-376.

“Quebec Separatism, the 1995 Referendum, and the Future of Confederation: The Alberta Right Responds,” Prairie Forum: Journal of the Canadian Plains Research Centre 21, 2, 1996: 201-221.

“Multiculturalism and the Politics of Ethnicity: Jews and the Charlottetown Accord,” and “Bibliographical Essay,” in John H. Simpson and Howard Adelman, eds., Multiculturalism, Jews and Identities in Canada (Jerusalem: Magnes Press of the Hebrew University, 1996): 95-127; 263-264.

“Class, Ethnicity and Gender Intertwined: Jewish Women and the East London Rent Strikes, 1935-1940,” Women’s History Review 4, 3, 1995: 283-299.

“Sidestepping the Contradictions: The Communist Party, Jewish Communists and Zionism 1935-48,” in Geoff Andrews, Nina Fishman and Kevin Morgan, eds., Opening the Books: Essays on the Cultural and Social History of the British Communist Party (London: Pluto Press, 1995): 124-141.

“The British Communist Party’s National Jewish Committee and the Fight Against Anti-Semitism During the Second World War,” Immigrants and Minorities 8, 1-2, 1989: 82-96; reprinted in Tony Kushner and Kenneth Lunn, eds., The Politics of Marginality: Race, the Radical Right and Minorities in Twentieth Century Britain (London: Frank Cass, 1990): 82-96.

“Communism and Pro-Soviet Feeling Among the Jews of East London, 1935-45,” Immigrants and Minorities 5, 3, 1986: 285-304.

“‘Salud di Heldn!’: Jewish Communist Activity in London on Behalf of the Spanish Republic,” Michigan Academician 16, 3, 1984: 371-381.

Other Articles, Documents and Conference Proceedings

Entry on “Zionism” in Cyprian P. Blamires, ed., World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2006): Vol. 2, 747-749.

Entry on “Mauritius” in C. Neal Tate, ed., Governments of the World: A Global Guide to Citizens’ Rights and Responsibilities, Vol. 3: Jamaica to Political Protest (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006): 136-137.

“Literature, Politics and Pedagogy,” Academic Exchange Quarterly 6, 4, 2002: 108-112.

“The Only Solution to the Cyprus Impasse: International Recognition of Two Nations on the Island,” New Federation 6, 3, 2001: 27-29.

“Re/Visiting Russia with Theodore Dreiser” (review essay, with Irene Gammel), Resources for American Literary Study 26, 1, 2000: 110-115.

“Islands and Governance,” Archipelago 5, 1, 2000: 5-8.

Entry on “ICOR,” in Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, and Dan Georgakas, eds., Encyclopedia of the American Left, 2nd edn (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998): 347.

“The Radical ‘Second Life’ of Vilhjalmur Stefansson,” Arctic: Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America 51, 1, 1998: 58-60.

Prince Edward Island and the Canadian Constitution: A Brief to the Standing Committee on the Constitution (with Harry Baglole, Barry Bartmann and David Bulger) (Charlottetown, PEI: Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, Dec. 1, 1997).

“Is Everything Old New Again? A Comparative Examination of Secessionism in Present-Day Quebec and the Antebellum American South” (with Edward Mihalkanin), Proceedings of the November 1997 San Antonio Conference, National Social Science Association, National Social Science Perspectives Journal 12, 2, 1997: 120-132.

“Maritime Union: Revisiting an Impossible Dream,” in Maritime Union: Is it a Good Idea for PEI? A Symposium (Charlottetown, PEI: Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island and the Institute of Public Administration of Canada, Feb. 27, 1996): 51-61.

“Canada’s Constitution: A New Austria-Hungary in the Making?” Canadian Parliamentary Review 15, 1, 1992: 2-5; reprinted in Gregory S. Mahler and Roman R. March, eds., Canadian Politics, 3rd edn. (Guilford, CT: Dushkin Publishing, 1993): 10-13.

“The Reform Party: A Rising Tide in Canada?” Viewpoints: The Canadian Jewish Periodical 20, 4, 1992: 1-2.

“Affirmative Action: A New Form of Discrimination?” in Donald Altschiller, ed., Affirmative Action (New York: H.W. Wilson, 1991): 147-152.

Book Reviews

Kevin Morgan et al, Communists and British Society 1920-1991, Twentieth Century British History 18, 4, 2007: 530-533.

Michael Keren, The Citizen’s Voice: Twentieth Century Politics and Literature, Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism/Revue Canadienne des Etudes sur le Nationalisme 31, 1-2, 2004: 160-161.

Stephen A. Royle, A Geography of Islands: Small Island Insularity, Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism/Revue Canadienne des Etudes sur le Nationalisme 30, 1-2, 2003: 165-167.

Fraidie Martz, Open Your Hearts: The Story of the Jewish War Orphans in Canada, American Review of Canadian Studies, 29, 2, 1999: 333-335.

Gerald Tulchinsky, Taking Root: The Origins of the Canadian Jewish Community, Canadian Ethnic Studies/Etudes Ethniques au Canada 29, 1, 1997: 181-182.

Trevor Harrison, Of Passionate Intensity: Right-Wing Populism and the Reform Party of Canada, Patterns of Prejudice 31, 1, 1997: 65-66.

Enzo Traverso, The Marxists and the Jewish Question: The History of a Debate (1843-1943), Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 14, 4, 1996: 133-135.

John R. Gillis, ed., Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity, Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism/Revue Canadienne des Etudes sur le Nationalisme 22, 1-2, 1995: 134-135.

Sharman Kadish, Bolsheviks and British Jews: The Anglo-Jewish Community, Britain and the Russian Revolution, American Historical Review 100, 2, 1995: 524-525.

Robert J. Brym et al, eds., The Jews in Canada, Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue Canadienne de Science Politique 26, 4, 1993: 806-807.

Martin Robin, Shades of Right: Nativist and Fascist Politics in Canada, 1920-1940, Canadian Ethnic Studies/Etudes Ethniques au Canada 23, 3, 1991: 172.

Visit to Poland, 1977

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REVIEWS of Books by Henry Srebrnik

Selected Academic Publications

Visit to Poland, 1977