Stepmother Russia, Foster Mother America: Identity Transitions in the New Odessa Jewish Commune, 1881-1891 / Recollections of a Communist (Borderlines: Russian and Eastern European-Jewish Studies)
Academic Studies Press, 2014. Hardcover. A fine copy; no dust jacket. In the late nineteenth century, a group of radical Jewish youths from Odessa attempted to create an agricultural commune on the Oregon frontier, and in so doing developed from assimilated revolutionaries to American Jews. Theodore Friedgut relates the story.....