Yiddish radicalism, Jewish religion: Controversies in the Fraye Arbeter Shtime, 1937–1945

Lilian Türk & Jesse Cohn's joint essay examining the debates over religion hosted in the Yiddish anarchist newspaper Fraye Arbeter Shtime.

Submitted by wojtek on January 18, 2019

Türk, L. and Cohn, J. 2018. Yiddish Radicalism, Jewish Religion: Controversies in the Fraye Arbeter Shtime, 1937–1945. In: Christoyannopoulos, A. and Adams, M. S. (eds.) Essays in Anarchism and Religion: Volume II. Pp. 20–57. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press. DOI: https://doi.
org/10.16993/bas.b.

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syndicalist

5 years 11 months ago

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Submitted by syndicalist on January 18, 2019

Look forward to reading this

It'd be cool to one day have a well informed critique
of the shift in and acceptance of bureaucratic
needle trades unionism. Thus far, English language
coverage seems to negate or not fully understand
the "labor question" very well.

wojtek

5 years 11 months ago

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Submitted by wojtek on January 21, 2019

Conversation: The Lost World of Yiddish Anarchists
https://jewishcurrents.org/conversation/the-lost-world-of-yiddish-anarchists/

Joseph Bovshover: Yiddish Poetry, British Anarchism, and the Russian Revolution
https://blogs.bl.uk/european/2017/07/joseph-bovshover.html

syndicalist

5 years 11 months ago

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Submitted by syndicalist on January 21, 2019

Cool, have not seen this one before:

Joseph Bovshover: Yiddish Poetry, British Anarchism, and the Russian Revolution
https://blogs.bl.uk/european/2017/07/joseph-bovshover.html

Jacques Roux

5 years 10 months ago

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Submitted by Jacques Roux on February 1, 2019

Interesting film from the '80s with some of the people who had been involved in the Fray Arbeter Shtime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuofzxj-O3M

syndicalist

5 years 10 months ago

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Submitted by syndicalist on February 2, 2019

Jacques Roux

Interesting film from the '80s with some of the people who had been involved in the Fray Arbeter Shtime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuofzxj-O3M

Those who appear in this film are those who I knew and worked with (primarily in the Libertarian Book Club).