One can get a good idea of what Ellen’s family had to go through from the Preface to Arno Mayer’s fine book on the Judeocide, Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?, which describes in fascinating detail the harrowing journey his family took to escape the Nazis, ending up on the very same ship by which Ellen’s parents got away.Įllen’s family lived for a time on the New York Lower East Side, then epicenter of Jewish working-class radicalism in the country. ![]() Bundist organizations in the United States, apparently in collaboration with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union and its president David Dubinsky, secured them the precious safe passage through Europe and the U.S. In 1940 they had to flee the country to Paris, then to flee Paris and ultimately France to get away from the invading Nazi forces. Both Ellen’s mother and father were from Latvia, where they were leading figures in the Bund, the Jewish Socialist Party. The full text will be published on the Verso website.Įllens’ parents lives and politics had an especially big impact on her own political-intellectual formation. The following tribute is abridged from a presentation last November by Robert Brenner, an editor of Against the Current, longtime co-thinker and close friend of Wood, at an informal conference held by Verso Books to mark the re-publication of three of Ellen’s books.
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