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The Fire These Times

101/ Mending the World: A Jewish-Arab Diaspora Conversation w/ Cindy Milstein

Mar 4, 2022
01:44:32

This is a conversation with Cindy Milstein, they (I wrongly used 'she' in the intro) are the editor of the book "There is Nothing so Whole as a Broken Heart: Mending the World As Jewish Anarchists" 

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What we talked about:

- Displacement as part of the Jewish experience Being diaspora (Jewish and Arab)
- Having communities without states
- Politics of language (Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino etc)
- Authoritarianism and flattening our differences
- Jewish anarchism
- Hegemonic narratives in Europe (Examples of Dreyfus affair, Alsace, Berlin, Spain)
- Oral histories Tisha B'av, 1492, Tree of Life massacre and needing a language for grief
- Wrestling with difficulties
- Antisemitism on the right and the left

Recommended Books: 

- An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
- The Four Profound Weaves by R.B. Lemberg
- Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

Link to Yiddish, Ladino and Judeo-Arabic songs: https://twitter.com/FireTheseTimes/status/1486260615828021249

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