To the Other Shore

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Focusing on a pivotal group of Jewish intellectuals who emigrated from the Russian Empire to the United States between 1881 and the early 1920s, the narrative explores their transformative journey. Many, raised in Orthodox homes, shed their Jewish identities and embraced radical political ideologies from Russia. As they emerged as leaders in the American labor movement, they contributed to the radical press in multiple languages while maintaining their secular Russian cultural identity and commitment to socialism.