Dispatches
Diaspora Dispatches Vol. 1
Dispatches of Bundist actions and reactions from across the Diaspora. This week, we feature greater Chicago, Northern California, and the DMV Bund.
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Declaration of Independence of Diaspora
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
Doikayt (Aleph in the Asphalt)
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
Millennial Bundist: an interview with Yiddish musician and activist Isabel Frey
Yiddish protest musician and activist Isabel Frey talks contemporary Bundist politics and the growing problem of philosemitism in Europe.
Visual Arts
Holy Names for Our Dybbuk
American Jewish artist Julie Weitz embodies the Yiddish folklore figure of the dybbuk to exorcise pain from sites of ancestral trauma.
Interview
Irena Klepfisz: Perspective of a Lifelong Bundist
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
Music
der talyen/The Hangman
The hangman wore a sky blue shirt. And what does his overlord require of him? To kneel, to kneel, and kneel, and kneel unto death. To kneel out of the captive all his life and right, to make it clear to all what is punishment and what is crime. The hangman wore a sky blue shirt...
Personal Essay
What my radical Jewish grandparents taught me about survivorhood, healing, and resistance
Learning about my Jewish grandparents' activism helped me embrace my Jewish and gender identity. It also taught me about the revolutionary nature of Jewishness itself.
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Our Unfinished Struggle for Justice on May Day
The Palestinian call for general strike on May Day and Nakba Day and how the Bund celebrated May Day in decades past
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A Very Bundist Passover
What it means to celebrate Passover as a Bundist, and resources for a year unlike all other years.
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Welcome to Der Spekter!
Welcome to Der Spekter, a new platform hosting resurgent worldwide Jewish, socialist, and anti-nationalist ideas! The current crisis in Israel and Palestine has highlighted already-growing generational and ideological divides within Jewish communities worldwide. Suddenly, the principles of Bundism, an anti-nationalist, socialist answer to burgeoning antisemitism and the increasingly militant Zionist