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September 10: Simon Dubnow
Simon Dubnow, one of the founders of modern Jewish historical scholarship and a prolific memoirist and essayist about secular Jewish life and politics in Eastern Europe, was murdered at age 81 by the...
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Marek Edelman, the Heroic Anti-Hero
“I am the Guardian of the Jewish Graves” by Itzhak Luden Translated from the Yiddish by Barnett Zumoff; published in the Yiddish Forverts, 10/5/2009 In principle, the most important thing is — life....
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December 29: A Socialist in Congress
Meyer London, one of only two Socialist Party members elected to Congress (the other was Victor Berger), was born in Lithuania on this date in 1871. He came to New York at age 20 and worked as a tutor...
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O My America: Being an Agendanik
by Lawrence Bush I JUST SPENT the weekend in Ann Arbor, Michigan at a reunion of some ninety veterans of New Jewish Agenda (NJA), the national, chapter-based, multi-issue Jewish organization that was...
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by Diana Scott from the Autumn 2016 issue of Jewish Currents Discussed in this essay: Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund: A Memoir of Interwar Poland, by Bernard Goldstein, translated and edited...
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THE NON-JEWISH JEW REVISITED by Michael Mirer Discussed in this essay: The Non-Jewish Jew, and Other Essays, by Isaac Deutscher. Published in a 50th anniversary edition by Verso, 2017, 176 pages....
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WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THEIR HISTORY by Hershl Hartman Published in the Summer 2017 issue of Jewish Currents MY BOLSHEVIK MOTHER in 1929 named me Hirsh Naftoli — not after departed grandfathers or...
View ArticleHebrew as the Language of the Progressive Jewish Future
THE YIDDISH REVIVAL SIDESTEPS TODAY’S REALITY by Rafi Ellenson IN LEARNING YIDDISH, the language of our past, we should not neglect the language of our future: Modern Hebrew. The radical and dynamic...
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A CONFERENCE REPORT by Bennett Muraskin Illustration by Aharon Varady TWENTY YEARS AGO, in honor of the centennial of the Jewish Labor Bund, a day-long conference took place in New York City. Among the...
View ArticleThe Sun Has Not Risen Yet, the Dutch Are Still Asleep
Translated by Sarah Prais Helene Khatskels was an extraordinary Yiddish educator, author and translator. A life-long socialist, she fought to secure Jewish national rights in the diaspora, and was a...
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December 29: A Socialist in Congress
Meyer London, one of only two Socialist Party members elected to Congress (the other was Victor Berger), was born in Lithuania on this date in 1871. He came to New York at age 20 and worked as a tutor...
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O My America: Being an Agendanik
by Lawrence Bush I JUST SPENT the weekend in Ann Arbor, Michigan at a reunion of some ninety veterans of New Jewish Agenda (NJA), the national, chapter-based, multi-issue Jewish organization that was...
View ArticleThe Jewish Bund at Its Peak
by Diana Scott from the Autumn 2016 issue of Jewish Currents Discussed in this essay: Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund: A Memoir of Interwar Poland, by Bernard Goldstein, translated and edited...
View ArticleIsaac Deutscher Redux
THE NON-JEWISH JEW REVISITED by Michael Mirer Discussed in this essay: The Non-Jewish Jew, and Other Essays, by Isaac Deutscher. Published in a 50th anniversary edition by Verso, 2017, 176 pages....
View ArticleSplits in the Yiddish Socialist Movement
WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THEIR HISTORY by Hershl Hartman Published in the Summer 2017 issue of Jewish Currents MY BOLSHEVIK MOTHER in 1929 named me Hirsh Naftoli — not after departed grandfathers or...
View ArticleHebrew as the Language of the Progressive Jewish Future
THE YIDDISH REVIVAL SIDESTEPS TODAY’S REALITY by Rafi Ellenson IN LEARNING YIDDISH, the language of our past, we should not neglect the language of our future: Modern Hebrew. The radical and dynamic...
View ArticleThe Bund at 120
A CONFERENCE REPORT by Bennett Muraskin Illustration by Aharon Varady TWENTY YEARS AGO, in honor of the centennial of the Jewish Labor Bund, a day-long conference took place in New York City. Among the...
View ArticleThe Sun Has Not Risen Yet, the Dutch Are Still Asleep
Translated by Sarah Prais Helene Khatskels was an extraordinary Yiddish educator, author and translator. A life-long socialist, she fought to secure Jewish national rights in the diaspora, and was a...
View ArticleThe Bund Is Gone, But Its Anti-Zionist Critique Remains
by Ralph Seliger ALTHOUGH I define myself as a (leftwing) Zionist, I was drawn to a YIVO seminar in New York on the Jewish Workers’ Bund, the famously non-Zionist radical socialist movement that...
View ArticleA Bundist Talks About the Bund
by Dvora Zylberman I HAVE ALWAYS wondered what qualifies someone to write an article on a given topic. I had always assumed that one needed to be an expert in a given field to give an interesting and...
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