Music
Between the Letters
“Between the Letters” is an offering toward a diasporist aesthetic that values fragmentation, hybridity, and imagination as generative space.
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Interview
The Rise of End Times Fascism w/ Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor
"These people are traitors — they are treasonous to this world and the wonders of this world. They’re not traitors to nation; they’re traitors to creation."
Dispatches
Doikaytn in Oceania
To what extent is being “here” dependent on the decision of the diasporic guests themselves?
Translation
Introducing The ‘Tuers’: Translations from Doyres Bundistn, Part 2: Ephraim (“Frank”) Zalman Atran
Translator’s Introduction: I am pleased to be continuing my series of translations from Doyres Bundistn, “Introducing the ‘Tuers,’” with the entry of Ephraim (“Frank”) Zalman Atran. While this installment only features one individual, his story presents a great deal to dig into. A barricade fighter who was shot three
Dispatches
We Do Not Belong Here: From the Diaspora to Jalūt
The following essay, drafted by Noah Brehmer under the collective alias Vilna Goles, is an outgrowth of research undertaken in the Exilic Politics Circle. The circle was established over the past year to broadly study histories of exile as a grammar for an emergent political community beyond empire. In the
History
Letters on Zionism, Part 1: The Two Worlds of Socialism and Zionism
You see the world as a Zionist, by which I mean you see the world with eyes full of darkness. You are not seeing the world as it is. Try to look at the world with socialist eyes and see.
News
DMV Jewish Labor Bund Statement of Acknowledgement and Support for Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition
June 4, 2025 We, the DMV Jewish Labor Bund, demand the end of the desecration of Moses Macedonia Cemetery, material reparations, and the public apologies of the Maryland Housing Opportunities Commission (HOC), the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (MNCPPC), and 1784 Holdings for their displacement of communities and destruction
Visual Arts
Andy Singer's Observations: ADL
Ultra-Zionist groups like Canary Mission and BETAR create lists of people that they want harassed, deported, fired, or expelled from universities (and now the country). They give these lists to Republican and Democratic Party politicians along with millions of dollars in campaign contributions via groups like AIPAC, NORPAC, etc. The
Interview
How do we get the ADL out of schools?
A conversation with Nora Lester Murad of #DropTheADLfromSchools.
Dispatches
How the Pillars of the Bund Can Guide Local Organizing
The DMV Bund's establishment of "committees" based on the three pillars of the Bund allow organizers to better manage responsibilities and maintain organizing capacity.
History
World Jewry, the State of Israel, and the Defence of Yiddish: Statements and Resolutions from the Third World Bund Conference, 1955
At an international meeting of the Bund ten years after the Holocaust, Bundists highlighted the importance of participation in communal Jewish life, the preservation of Yiddish, and a "just peace" in Israel and Palestine.
History
The Zionist War on Yiddish in Palestine
Editor's note: This is a version of Elia Ayoub’s Master’s thesis about the war on Yiddish in Palestine written in 2016, graciously abbreviated and adapted for publication in Der Spekter. Source citations have been changed to links for easier reading. To read the original full essay