News
From the Cafe Bund Library: An Appeal to Jewish Socialists and Diasporists, Wherever You Are
The Cafe Bund library is seeking contributions of books, pamphlets, zines, and periodicals.
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Poetry
Ungodly Psalms: Ten Insubordinations
The Tanakh is a patchwork of many texts. Why not add another?
News
The IJLB's Provisional Steering Committee: Bund Bulletin #1
The first update from the International Jewish Labor Bund's Provisional Steering Committee laying.
History
Bundism in Britain: Then and Now
Contrary to popular belief, the Bund was not only active within the borders of European Yiddishland. Whether in Melbourne, Buenos Aires or London, the history of ‘diaspora Bundists’ can teach us about the successes and shortcomings of the movement and its continued relevance and necessity today.
Personal Essay
The Soviet Jew
This is a reprint of the introduction to a longer series, called "The Soviet Jew," currently being published on Yasha Levine's Substack, "Weaponized Immigrant." We encourage you to continue reading and support Yasha's work. Intro It was the morning of November 9,
Interview
“A Wound Opened Between Realities”: an interview with Sarah Ema Friedland, co-director of “Lyd”
Director Sarah Ema Friedland discusses imagining a future of collective liberation in Palestine through speculative fiction.
Personal Essay
To Hold the Line: Sumud, Doikayt, and the Syntax of Shared Struggle
When Hashem, the Name, the Life of the Worlds, cries out to us: "Ayeka (where are you)?" We respond with: "Hineni (I am here)!" I am here to hold the line.
Personal Essay
Hakehillah Korea: Embracing Doikayt in Quiet Protest This Rosh Hashanah
“So my parents met in a hippie cult in the 70s. I’m only half Jewish. I’m not sure I should be here.” I say it with such dryness that you might be tricked into thinking I’m completely normal. The rabbi corrects me and says that I am
Music
A "Borough Park" for a radical Jewish present: an interview with Kleztronica musician Chaia
Yiddish techno “Kleztronica” pioneer Chaia samples Yiddish song to recreate her grandmother’s childhood in new single “Borough Park.”
Dispatches
Diaspora Dispatches Vol. 1
Dispatches of Bundist actions and reactions from across the Diaspora. This week, we feature greater Chicago, Northern California, and the DMV Bund.
News
Declaration of Independence of Diaspora
Our true birthplace was in Exile. Not when one man plotted out land and called it his, not when another built a palace and some elders declared him king, not when his son built a Temple and made it the center of his Land, but when we were kicked out of Eden — it was then that we were born.
Poetry
Doikayt (Aleph in the Asphalt)
MIR ZAYNEN DO we are here is a declaration of survival a demand to exist out loud in color but also and also to be here not somewhere else MIR ZAYNEN DO we are here means not having to leave not being confined in a ghetto of your creation or