REVIEWS of Books by Henry Srebrnik

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

Henry F. Srebrnik

Professor of Political Science, University of Prince Edward Island

Books

Matthew Hoffman and Henry Srebrnik, eds., A Vanished Ideology: Essays on the Jewish Communist Movement in the English-speaking World in the Twentieth Century (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2016)

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

“Introduction,” (with Matthew Hoffman), in Matthew Hoffman and Henry Srebrnik, eds., A Vanished Ideology: Essays on the Jewish Communist Movement in the English-speaking World in the Twentieth Century (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2016): 1-18.  

"Chasing an Illusion: The Jewish Communist Movement in Canada,” in Matthew Hoffman and Henry Srebrnik, eds., A Vanished Ideology: Essays on the Jewish Communist Movement in the English-speaking World in the Twentieth Century (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2016): 101-133.

“Conclusion,” (with Matthew Hoffman), in Matthew Hoffman and Henry Srebrnik, eds., A Vanished Ideology: Essays on the Jewish Communist Movement in the English-speaking World in the Twentieth Century (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2016): 249-255.

 “Football, Frats, and Fiscal Peril vs. Commuters, Carping, and Rising Costs: The New Financial, Social and Psychological Context of Higher Education in Canada and the United States” (with David Thomas), in David M. Thomas and David N. Biette, eds., Canada and the United States: Differences That Count, 4th edn., (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014): 61-87.

"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, 2013): 107-122.

“‘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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