History
Word on the street is…
An article by Philadelphia shul teacher Shloyme Davidman reveals the extent to which secular Yiddish shuls were embedded in in the everyday lives and struggles of the working class.
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Poetry
Brothering Ketubah
Blessed is the Oneness, Spirit of the Universe, Which brings us Together and makes us more Whole
Dispatches
From the Editors: Two Years
Dear readers, It is a harsh reality that we have now surpassed two years of genocide in Gaza. A year ago, on October 7, 2024, we wrote a similar editorial whose words we may repeat here: “we bear the moral stain of wanton slaughter of tens of thousands of women
Visual Arts
From the Shtetls to Palestine
To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressor.
Essay
Free DC, Free Palestine: Finding Hope Against All Odds
I am writing this to break the dam of unknowing and unseeing, to paint a “big picture” for those still clinging to their ignorance. There is, in fact, a horizon.
Music
From the Workers Circle of Northern California: Doikayt through Yiddish Song
For the Worker's Circle of Northern California's 125th anniversary, a new adaptation of the classic Yiddish folk song "Ale Brider."
News
Whether the Bund: A Big Year
IJLB representative Luca Schmit offers an update on the accomplishments of the Bund's revival so far and the challenges it faces.
Visual Arts
The Studio
Brooklyn-based artist Ryan Fliegelman draws inspiration from Jewish artist Philip Guston.
Essay
Plowshares into Swords: Religion, War, and Jewish Secularism
The Jewish Labor Bund, overwhelmingly secular and irreligious, and whose memory we are attempting to keep alive, spoke of a besserer, shenerer velt: a world free of conflict, which could only be brought about through socialist revolution.
History
Organized Labor, Politics and Klezmer Musicians in New York Until the First World War
From the early days of the 1880s to the First World War, klezmorim were present at every twist and turn of immigrant Jewish radicalism and labor organizing, from strikes to union elections.
Essay
Why the Left Should Embrace Jewish Tradition
We cannot cede Jewish religion to the far right
History
Letters on Zionism Part 2: Socialism on Occupied Land
Socialism on occupied and stolen land, on land that still shrieks with the blood and sweat of the disenfranchised and the expelled… It is a perversion of socialism; it is a deformity of socialism!