Resolution 1a. Whereas we have lived long enough in the world of our elders, as laid out in Appendix A, the book of Ungodly Psalms; whereas, moreover, we have grown tired of reading and living the fire and floods, the ruin, wandering, exile, ash and mud, etc.; be it here
April 25, 2023, was a typical spring Tuesday outside the California State Capitol: thermostats across Sacramento climbing well into the eighties by noon, harried staffers’ and lobbyists’ hair and makeup wilting in the heat as they ducked out to grab to-go salads from one of the many nondescript lunch cafés
It is fatal that citizens become de facto exiles in their own country. It is this internal exile that must be reclaimed today, transforming it from a passively suffered condition into a chosen and actively pursued way of life.
You think the enemy is writhing in pangs of death, but those are birth travails
"Zionism has all along been a Siamese twin of anti- Semitism and every kind of nationalist chauvinism."
In the past several months, Bundists around the world have been actively organizing grassroots educational and cultural events as well as solidarity actions in their respective areas.
Editor's note: this is the third poem in the series "Ungodly Psalms" by Joe Grim Feinberg. Don't miss the previous parts in this series, "Report from the Cowardly Scouts on the Condition of the Land" and "Ten Insubordinations." Our god
A case for rebuilding the International Jewish Labor Bund in 2025 -- beyond admiration for its historical legacy.
This is the second part in a series of poems by Joe Grim Feinberg titled "Ungodly Psalms." Click here for the first part in the series. Lord General! The land up there is fine but deadly. Its valleys may be moist and soft and sweet. Milk indeed flows
The Cafe Bund library is seeking contributions of books, pamphlets, zines, and periodicals.
The Tanakh is a patchwork of many texts. Why not add another?
The first update from the International Jewish Labor Bund's Provisional Steering Committee laying.
History
Contrary to popular belief, the Bund was not only active within the borders of European Yiddishland. Whether in Melbourne, Buenos Aires or London, the history of ‘diaspora Bundists’ can teach us about the successes and shortcomings of the movement and its continued relevance and necessity today.
Personal Essay
This is a reprint of the introduction to a longer series, called "The Soviet Jew," currently being published on Yasha Levine's Substack, "Weaponized Immigrant." We encourage you to continue reading and support Yasha's work. Intro It was the morning of November 9,
Interview
Director Sarah Ema Friedland discusses imagining a future of collective liberation in Palestine through speculative fiction.
Personal Essay
When Hashem, the Name, the Life of the Worlds, cries out to us: "Ayeka (where are you)?" We respond with: "Hineni (I am here)!" I am here to hold the line.
Personal Essay
“So my parents met in a hippie cult in the 70s. I’m only half Jewish. I’m not sure I should be here.” I say it with such dryness that you might be tricked into thinking I’m completely normal. The rabbi corrects me and says that I am
Music
Yiddish techno “Kleztronica” pioneer Chaia samples Yiddish song to recreate her grandmother’s childhood in new single “Borough Park.”
Dispatches
Dispatches of Bundist actions and reactions from across the Diaspora. This week, we feature greater Chicago, Northern California, and the DMV Bund.
News
Our true birthplace was in Exile. Not when one man plotted out land and called it his, not when another built a palace and some elders declared him king, not when his son built a Temple and made it the center of his Land, but when we were kicked out of Eden — it was then that we were born.
Poetry
MIR ZAYNEN DO we are here is a declaration of survival a demand to exist out loud in color but also and also to be here not somewhere else MIR ZAYNEN DO we are here means not having to leave not being confined in a ghetto of your creation or
Interview
Yiddish protest musician and activist Isabel Frey talks contemporary Bundist politics and the growing problem of philosemitism in Europe.
Visual Arts
American Jewish artist Julie Weitz embodies the Yiddish folklore figure of the dybbuk to exorcise pain from sites of ancestral trauma.
Interview
How do you resurrect a global movement that was nearly destroyed by genocide, fascism, and the wheels of time? And how do you continue that movement when so much has changed since its heyday? More than a century since the founding of the Bund in 1897, neo-Bundists today are facing