Music
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.
Music
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
Review
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.
Music
Diaspora Hymn
Isabel Frey imagines new Yiddish Bundist lyrics to Hatikva, the national anthem of Israel.
Interview
Daniel Kahn on Radical Yiddish Autonomy, Bundism, and Productive Provocation
The singer-songwriter sits down with us at Yiddish New York to talk about his new album and what it means to sing in Yiddish today.
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."
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.
Music
Why Have You Stolen the Blue and White Colours from Our Honest Sky
Exiliahu's debut album is "a golem charged with raising funds for my friends from Gaza, and with giving you and your ancestors music to dance to upon the grave of Theodore Herzl."
Music
Between the Letters
“Between the Letters” is an offering toward a diasporist aesthetic that values fragmentation, hybridity, and imagination as generative space.
Music
Daloy Politsey: a Yiddish “Fuck the Police” for May Day
In honor of May Day, Der Spekter is proud to share: a kleztronica commentary on “Daloy Politsey,” the latest single by New York-based artist Chaia.
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).
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.”