Claire Ehrlich: The Lost World of Yiddish Anarchists
On Sunday, January 20, YIVO will host Yiddish Anarchism: New Scholarship on a Forgotten Tradition, a day-long conference. Claire Ehrlich sat down with scholars Kenyon Zimmer, Anna Elena Torres, and Tony Michels to discuss, among other topics, anarchism’s relationship to Jewish culture, religious practice, and Zionism; its erasure within Jewish scholarship; and why it’s so […]
IndyWeek (NC), “Jewish Food Has Gotten Hip. But If You Go Back Far Enough, It’s Always Been Fusion.”
“It’s all fusion if you go back far enough,” explained Ari Weinzweig, author, historian, self-proclaimed anarchist, and co-founding partner of Zingerman’s Delicatessen in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Continue Reading
Forward, “Pulling No Punches In Fight Against ‘Alt-Right’ And Neo-Nazis”
Activists who call themselves “antifa,” short for anti-fascists, are inspired by early 20th-century responses to European fascism. They say they are influenced by militant left-wing and anarchist politics. Continue Reading
Haaretz, “Radical lawyer Stanley Cohen, who defended clients like Hamas, on way to prison,” January 5, 2014
Radical lawyer Stanley Cohen, who defended clients like Hamas, on way to prison by Larry Cohler-Esses, Haaretz, January 5, 2014 The wisecracking attorney, who was raised in a moderately observant Jewish family in Westchester County, New York, today describes himself as an atheist and an anarchist, but is still proudly Jewish culturally and socially. READ MORE