Ep.20 – Jewish Anarchism w/ Shane Burley, Anna Elena Torres, and Kenyon Zimmer
Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness
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The Role of Yiddish in the History of Jewish Anarchism
For Yiddish speaking Jewish anarchists, obviously Yiddish publications were incredibly important. But there are other sectors of this historical Jewish anarchist population that either didn't speak Yiddish or preferred to utilize other languages. Emma Goldman published her magazine Mother Earth in English and although she read the friar arbiter's dimma, she almost never wrote in Yiddish. Same goes for Alexander Berkman who published the English language paper The Blast which was you know and these were publications not for a specifically Jewish audience but for a more sort of generally conceived American audience.
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