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A dybbuk stands in a snowy cemetery holding a sign that reads in Yiddish: Wherever we live, that's our homeland.

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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.

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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