LET JUSTICE WELL UP LIKE WATER:
Progressive Jews From Hillel To Helen Suzman
By Bennett Muraskin
Published by the Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations and The Center
for Cultural Judaism
Progressive secular Jews need their heroes - and here are 62 of them!
Concise biographies of anarchists, Bundists, communists, socialists,
Zionists, social reformers, labor leaders, anti-fascist resisters,
feminists, journalists, writers, historians and performing artists across
the Jewish world and timeline. Heroes, but not hero worship; rather,
critical assessments of their life and work.
Includes profiles of 19 women and eight architects of Yiddish culture, four
pre-modern figures, as well as five modern religious Jews. What ties the 62
together? A shared commitment to universal human rights and social justice
within a Jewish historical, cultural or ethical context.
>From the Table of Contents
Social Reformers Lillian Wald, Janusz
Korczak, Justine Wise Polier
Labor Leaders Baruch Charney Vladeck,
Rose Schneiderman, Rose Pesotta
Communists Mossaye Olgin, Clara Lemlich
Shavelson, Rose Pastor Stokes,
Solomon Mikhoels
Women's Rights Advocates Ernestine Rose,
Betty Friedan, Henry Morgentaler, Irena Klepfisz
Political Leaders Leon Blum, Joseph Zuken,
Bella Abzug, Helen Suzman
Architects of Yiddish Culture
Morris Rosenfeld, S. Ansky, Itsik Manger,
Chaim Grade, Max Weinreich, Ruth Rubin
>From Advance Reviews
"Muraskin's volume is essential reading for scholars of Jewish
progressivism, veterans of the secular Jewish left, and just plain
interested readers. His concise treatment of assorted personalities offers
us a rich sense of them as individuals, and of the secular tradition as
central to all Jewish history."
Paul Buhle, Brown University, co-editor, Encyclopedia of the American Left
At its best, Jewish culture has been an insurgent counterculture,
profoundly humanistic and dissatisfied with the status quo. Bennett
Muraskin's portraits reveal how wide and deep this insurgent Jewish
tradition runs. His choice of heroes and heroines is inclusive and highly
original, and his narratives reveal all their essential virtues. A great
project!
Lawrence Bush, editor, Jewish Currents, Reconstructionism Today
Bennett Muraskin is a frequent contributor to Jewish Currents, Humanistic
Judaism, and Outlook (Canada). The Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations
(CSJO) has published his Yiddish Short Story Sampler, Secular Humanistic
Shabbes Reader, and Celebrating Jewish Holidays (co-authored with Judith
Seid and Lawrence Schofer). His most recent book is Humanist Readings in
Jewish Folklore (International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism, 2001)
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To Order
___ copies of LET JUSTICE WELL UP LIKE WATER @ $12 each. Add $2.50 postage
and handling for the first book plus $1.00 for each additional book. Make
checks payable to CSJO. Discounts on bulk orders.
Mail to Bennett Muraskin 31 Holly Drive Morris Plains, NJ 07950 ISBN
0-9716325-0-2 255 pp.
Teachers seeking desk copies for potential use in the classroom, please
contact the author at 908-964-8476 or via email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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