Ep.20 – Jewish Anarchism w/ Shane Burley, Anna Elena Torres, and Kenyon Zimmer
Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness
The Role of Anarchism in Jewish Life
In the late 19th and early 20th century, virtually everywhere you found Yiddish speaking Jews, anarchism was an institutionalized part of everyday life. Anarchists were leaders and organizers and rank and file members of predominantly Jewish labor unions. And Yiddish anarchist intellectuals were influential and respected in all sorts of fields from being medical doctors, to being translators, playwrights, sociologists, cultural critics, poets. The book has a really kind of it's a global focus, but it really talks about the way that a lot of these politics interacted with everyday folks lives as not just necessarily subculture, but something that actually was effective in their workplace,.
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