<div><P><B>Winner of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, Anthologies and Collections</B><br><br>The year 1929 represents a major turning point in interwar Jewish  society, proving to be a year when Jews, regardless of where they lived,  saw themselves affected by developments that took place around the  world, as the crises endured by other Jews became part of the  transnational Jewish consciousness. In the United States, the stock  market crash brought lasting economic, social, and ideological changes  to the Jewish community and limited its ability to support humanitarian  and nationalist projects in other countries. In Palestine, the  anti-Jewish riots in Hebron and other towns underscored the  vulnerability of the Zionist enterprise and ignited heated discussions  among various Jewish political groups about the wisdom of establishing a  Jewish state on its historical site. At the same time, in the Soviet  Union, the consolidation of power in the hands of Stalin created a much  more dogmatic climate in the international Communist movement, including  its Jewish branches. <br><br><br>Featuring a sparkling array of scholars of Jewish history, 1929  surveys the Jewish world in one year offering clear examples of the  transnational connections which linked Jews to each other&#8212;from politics,  diplomacy, and philanthropy to literature, culture, and the fate of  Yiddish&#8212;regardless of where they lived. Taken together, the essays in 1929 argue that, whether American, Soviet, German, Polish, or Palestinian, Jews throughout the world lived in a global context.</P></div>

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