Political Discourse in Exile: Karl Marx and the Jewish Question

Over the years, Karl Marx's tangled relation with Judaism has provoked heated debate among followers and critics alike. Can the Jewish tradition better help us understand Marx's political theory? Which themes in Marx's writings become clearer when read in a Jewish context? In this provocative book, Dennis Fischman addresses these questions by showing how Marx's work, from his doctoral dissertation to "Capital", resounds with the characteristic concerns of Jewish thought.