This lecture examines a cohort of Jews from Bohemia, Moravia, Hungary,
Austria and Galicia who were forced to flee the Habsburg Empire
following the Revolutions of 1848 due to their activities as
journalists, publicists, and political agitators. Once in exile (in
Paris, London, Constantinople and elsewhere), they formed an extensive
network and, in many cases, transferred their revolutionary zeal to the
Communist and Social Democratic movements. I am particularly interested
in exploring how their common experience of homelessness and exile
shaped their attitudes towards their own Jewishness and towards their
home countries and increasingly propelled them into international (and
internationalist) political movements.