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A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York by Tony Michels hidden melodies revealed And better than he couldWhy am I leaving Reboot Shop? Tony Michels explores the defining role of the Yiddish socialist movement in NY and the American Jewish experience. Arguing against the view that socialism and Yiddish culture arrived as Old World holdovers, Michels demonstrates that they arose in New York in response to local conditions and thrived not despite Americanization, but because of it. And the influence of the movement swirled far beyond the Lower East Side, to