We are NYC rabbis who support Zohran Mamdani – Here’s why [More]
The Mensheviks enjoyed a lot of support among the Jews—among two classes of Jews, that is. Martov and a large number of the Menshevik leaders—most of them—were classic representatives of the intelligentsia of Old Russia in its Jewish version, who perhaps knew Yiddish and did not renounce their Jewish identity, but thought of themselves as internationalists.
That was useful. Until it wasn’t.
[Via bondmen]
More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews
“The organization primarily attracted members from the anticommunist middle class, small business owners, self-employed professionals such as physicians and lawyers, national conservatives, and nationalist World War I veterans, many of whom believed that Nazi antisemitism was only a rhetorical tool used to “stir up the masses.””
I need to come up with a Max Naumann Award.