Nathaniel Deutsch, Tony Michels and Alma Rachel Heckman, *Radical Jewish Politics: A Global Perspective*. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2026.

This groundbreaking study illuminates the compelling yet frequently overlooked legacy of radical Jewish political movements across the Middle East and North Africa, while establishing crucial connections to parallel developments in the Americas, South Africa, Soviet Asia, and Europe. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Jews gravitated toward radical politics driven by dual motivations: the desire to fundamentally transform their societies and an intense longing for genuine belonging. Strikingly, radical politics presented Jews with an enticing promise of normalization, despite frequently resulting in deepened alienation or intensified persecution. Jewish radicals pursued divergent paths: some demanded recognition and self-determination as Jews, others pursued full integration as equal citizens within their nations, and still others chose to reject their Jewish identity entirely. The multifaceted Jewish encounters with modernity, colonialism, race, nationalism, emancipation, warfare, and displacement collectively constitute the dynamic narrative of radical Jewish politics spanning from Baghdad to Buenos Aires.