Music
Di Shvue/The Oath: A Bilingual Version of the Bundist Anthem
A Yiddish-to-English translation, and new musical rendition, of the classic Bundist anthem Di Shvue (The Oath).
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News
Philosemitism, Project Esther, & the Hijacking of Jewish Identity
Project Esther exemplifies the efforts to position Jews in opposition to “the progressive left's obsession with LGBTQ+ and all other minorities” and exposes the right’s attempt to wield Jewishness for its Christian Nationalist ends.
History
Introducing the ‘Tuers’: Translations from Doyres Bundistn, part 1
Translator’s Introduction: דורות בונדיסטן [Doyres Bundistn] was edited by the Bundist Jacob Sholem Hertz, who published many books about the history of the General Jewish Labor Bund. These three volumes contain over 500 short biographical entries about rank-and-file Bundists by various authors. The Bundist term for an
Dispatches
Bundism Today, Part 1: Bundist Organizing Principles
If Bundists are known in local Jewish communities as radicals hated by the establishment, but respected for their strength and inspiring in their message by a significant part of the general Jewish population, we will be in a fantastic position.
News
Peter Beinart's Fantasy of Persuasion
Peter Beinart's new book employs Jewish scripture and tribalism in an attempt to win over Zionists. But can such arguments ever convince the blind?
Poetry
Ungodly Psalms: Protocols of the Youth of Zion
Resolution 1a. Whereas we have lived long enough in the world of our elders, as laid out in Appendix A, the book of Ungodly Psalms; whereas, moreover, we have grown tired of reading and living the fire and floods, the ruin, wandering, exile, ash and mud, etc.; be it here
News
Doikayt in the Desi Diaspora
April 25, 2023, was a typical spring Tuesday outside the California State Capitol: thermostats across Sacramento climbing well into the eighties by noon, harried staffers’ and lobbyists’ hair and makeup wilting in the heat as they ducked out to grab to-go salads from one of the many nondescript lunch
Essay
The Journey of Return: Exilic Solidarity in the Post-Oct. 7th World
It is fatal that citizens become de facto exiles in their own country. It is this internal exile that must be reclaimed today, transforming it from a passively suffered condition into a chosen and actively pursued way of life.
Poetry
Ungodly Psalms: Minor Prophecy of Joseph during the Reign of Benjamin
You think the enemy is writhing in pangs of death, but those are birth travails
History
Is Zionism a Liberating Democratic Movement?
"Zionism has all along been a Siamese twin of anti- Semitism and every kind of nationalist chauvinism."
Dispatches
Diaspora Dispatches Vol. 2
In the past several months, Bundists around the world have been actively organizing grassroots educational and cultural events as well as solidarity actions in their respective areas.
Poetry
Ungodly Psalms: Covenant of the Distant Cousins of Israel
Editor's note: this is the third poem in the series "Ungodly Psalms" by Joe Grim Feinberg. Don't miss the previous parts in this series, "Report from the Cowardly Scouts on the Condition of the Land" and "Ten Insubordinations." Our god