The Studio

Brooklyn-based artist Ryan Fliegelman draws inspiration from Jewish artist Philip Guston.

Plowshares into Swords: Religion, War, and Jewish Secularism

The Jewish Labor Bund, overwhelmingly secular and irreligious, and whose memory we are attempting to keep alive, spoke of a besserer, shenerer velt: a world free of conflict, which could only be brought about through socialist revolution.

Organized Labor, Politics and Klezmer Musicians in New York Until the First World War

From the early days of the 1880s to the First World War, klezmorim were present at every twist and turn of immigrant Jewish radicalism and labor organizing, from strikes to union elections.

Why the Left Should Embrace Jewish Tradition

We cannot cede Jewish religion to the far right

Letters on Zionism Part 2: Socialism on Occupied Land

Socialism on occupied and stolen land, on land that still shrieks with the blood and sweat of the disenfranchised and the expelled… It is a perversion of socialism; it is a deformity of socialism!

Why Have You Stolen the Blue and White Colours from Our Honest Sky

Exiliahu's debut album is "a golem charged with raising funds for my friends from Gaza, and with giving you and your ancestors music to dance to upon the grave of Theodore Herzl."

Between the Letters

“Between the Letters” is an offering toward a diasporist aesthetic that values fragmentation, hybridity, and imagination as generative space.

The Rise of End Times Fascism w/ Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor

"These people are traitors — they are treasonous to this world and the wonders of this world. They’re not traitors to nation; they’re traitors to creation."

Doikaytn in Oceania

To what extent is being “here” dependent on the decision of the diasporic guests themselves? 

Introducing The ‘Tuers’: Translations from Doyres Bundistn, Part 2: Ephraim (“Frank”) Zalman Atran

Translator’s Introduction: I am pleased to be continuing my series of translations from Doyres Bundistn, “Introducing the ‘Tuers,’” with the entry of Ephraim (“Frank”) Zalman Atran. While this installment only features one individual, his story presents a great deal to dig into. A barricade fighter who was shot three

We Do Not Belong Here: From the Diaspora to Jalūt

The following essay, drafted by Noah Brehmer under the collective alias Vilna Goles, is an outgrowth of research undertaken in the Exilic Politics Circle. The circle was established over the past year to broadly study histories of exile as a grammar for an emergent political community beyond empire. In the

Letters on Zionism, Part 1: The Two Worlds of Socialism and Zionism

You see the world as a Zionist, by which I mean you see the world with eyes full of darkness. You are not seeing the world as it is. Try to look at the world with socialist eyes and see.