“Religion is the opiate of the masses,” claimed one of the Jewish world’s most virulent self-haters. And thus came his rallying cry, “Workers of the world, unite!”
After all the death and destruction that Communism caused, it’s difficult to understand why so many people fell for it – and why a disproportionate number of them were Jews. But Rabbi Wein tackles exactly that issue, from Karl Marx’s personal history to the poverty of Eastern European Jewry. And lest we think that the end of the Soviet Union meant the end of communism, Rabbi Wein shows the repercussions affecting Israel today.

• Marx’s ideology dissected
• the Bund and other Jewish socialist groups
• the Nazi claims against Jewish Bolsheviks
• Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim Meisels’ support of the working class
• China vs. the kibbutzim – where has Communism succeeded?