Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America

by Kenyon Zimmer

Book Overview

From the 1880s through the 1940s, tens of thousands of first- and second-generation immigrants embraced the anarchist cause after arriving on American shores. Kenyon Zimmer explores why these migrants turned to anarchism, and how their adoption of its ideology shaped their identities, experiences, and actions.

Zimmer focuses on Italians and Eastern European Jews in San Francisco, New York City, and Paterson, New Jersey. Tracing the movement's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252080920
• ISBN13: 9780252080920
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"