Di rayze aheym/The journey home: on making new music with an iconic poem and poet
Here we must live. We must fight for our culture. We must create the queer resplendent inclusive Yiddishland we want alongside our partners in liberation.
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“Average Jews,” the United Front, and the Jewish Labor Committee: A Reply to Nelson Lichtenstein
A major error of the Jewish Labor Bund and JLC, among countless others, was that they gave the lead to parties even more capitulationist and anti-Communist than they.
Bikherdik B-tch: How Judaism Became A Religion
"Has Judaism not always been a religion?" you may be wondering. And yes, in today's parlance, we can easily say that Judaism has been, since its inception, some kind of religion. It has included a centrally faith-based worldview and belief in ritual, higher power, and
Old Pals
Political cartoons reflect the unchanging nature of our battle against agents of state violence and capital through time.
A Winding Path to Jewish Anti-Zionism
Christian Zionism, paganism, Jewish Orthodoxy, and anarchism were my stepping stones.
Jews in the American Labor Movement: The Bundist Legacy
What Bundist influence on American labor history can teach a new generation of Jewish workers
An Open Letter to Dr. Nissim Yaakov Malul
Once, your advocacy for Arabic and rejection of separatism inspired me to discover my Arabness and commit to Palestinian liberation. Now, your history is a reminder that true solidarity with Palestinians means co-resistance, not coexistence.
Let’s Talk: an interview with Eli Haligua of Avlaremoz
A Jewish media outlet aiming to break the political silence of Turkey’s Jewish community has become a leftist voice for Turkish Jews around the world
Himl un erd veln undz oyshern!: A Review of “Yiddish Revolutionaries” in Manchester
From the Pale of Settlement to the streets of East London, Yoyvl's homage to the Jewish working class past and present shows the power of culture as an organising tool
Feygele
In “Children of the People,” Baruch Charney Vladeck tells the stories of Bundist revolutionaries, many of them women
Bikherdik B-tch: "Followers of the Trail: Working-Class Jewish Radicals in America"
David Leviatin's oral history of Jewish labor activists, paired with DJ Chaia's tunes, remind us of the great wisdom found in old political milieus.
New Lessons for Old Truths: Molly Crabapple's "Here Where We Live Is Our Country"
By making the full and long-dormant history of the Bund readily accessible to lay readers both Jewish and not, Crabapple gives us another battering ram with which to demolish the hegemony of Zionist delusion.
Essay
Bundism Today, Part 3: Doikayt
A guide to national cultural autonomy and organising in your local Jewish community
Essay
Against Spectacle: Art and Truth in Times of Genocide
We need more artists, now more than ever, to recover their sense of militancy.
Interview
Jewish Anarchist Publishing with Circle Aleph
Circle Aleph aims to reimagine Jewishness outside of statist terms, rather than folding to false promises of safety by the same powerful people and institutions that work against us.
Essay
A Liberatory Supplement for Your Passover Seder from the NYC Bund
Exodus is a liberation story so powerful that it was removed from the Bibles published for the Christian conversion of Africans enslaved in America for fear it would encourage uprisings.
Essay
Diasporism in Unfavorable Demographic Conditions: Thoughts on Joshua Leifer’s "Tablets Shattered"
In his new book, Joshua Leifer argues that the "demographic reality" of Israel has made neo-Bundist diasporism obsolete. Doing so leads to a submitting acceptance of the Zionist 'negation of the diaspora' and an inability to adequately address the reality of Israel's crimes.
Essay
War and Basketball
The NBA’s investments expose how even the most mundane facets of American life, now entangled in speculative finance, enable warfare
History
Purim Offers Us the Power to Mock the Powerful
Satire is one of the great weapons of the oppressed. When employed correctly, it has the power to evict the powerful from their palaces of authority and expose them as the pathetic and paranoid creatures that they are.
History
How I Rescued Vladeck
An encounter with Baruch Charney Vladeck, one of Jewish labor history's most notorious figures.
Music
Diaspora Hymn
Isabel Frey imagines new Yiddish Bundist lyrics to Hatikva, the national anthem of Israel.
History
The Socialist Uprising in Austria
A translation of the writing of Henryk Ehrlich in honor of the anniversary of the Austrian Civil War.
History
The Bund and Colonialism - The Perspective of Wiktor Alter
Writings by Bundist leader Wiktor Alter and a 1931 resolution endorsed by the Bund shed light on Bundist political thought on imperialism and colonialism.
Essay
How traditional Jewish grief ritual can serve us as radicals
I couldn't find Jewish grief resources that reflected my values, so I created my own.