From Kabbalah to Class StruggleFrom Kabbalah to Class Struggle is an intellectual biography of Meir Wiener (18931941), an Austrian Jewish intellectual and a student of Jewish mysticism who emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1926 and reinvented himself as a Marxist scholar and Yiddish writer. His dramatic life story offers a fascinating glimpse into the complexities and controversies of Jewish intellectual and cultural history of pre war Europe. Wiener made a remarkable career as a