Yiddish anarchist history
Blurb:
Yiddish anarchist history
"The creation of nation-states and their perfection is an art foreign
to the Jewish spirit."
-- Emma Goldman, quoted in Yiddish newspaper "Fun Shabes Biz Shabes"
(interviewed in 1907, published 1935)
* How was Yiddish anarchism transmitted, between Emma Goldman to
Martin Buber to Noam Chomsky?
* And what can we learn from Yiddish anarchism to inspire today's movements?
Come for a presentation and discussion on one hundred years of the
Yiddish anarchist press: its poetry, politics, and culture.
Bio:
Anna Torres is a graduate student in Yiddish literature at UC
Berkeley. Born in the Bronx, New York, she is also a muralist working
in community public art collectives.
modnay at 20:00
at salon mazal
Yiddish anarchist history
"The creation of nation-states and their perfection is an art foreign
to the Jewish spirit."
-- Emma Goldman, quoted in Yiddish newspaper "Fun Shabes Biz Shabes"
(interviewed in 1907, published 1935)
* How was Yiddish anarchism transmitted, between Emma Goldman to
Martin Buber to Noam Chomsky?
* And what can we learn from Yiddish anarchism to inspire today's movements?
Come for a presentation and discussion on one hundred years of the
Yiddish anarchist press: its poetry, politics, and culture.
Bio:
Anna Torres is a graduate student in Yiddish literature at UC
Berkeley. Born in the Bronx, New York, she is also a muralist working
in community public art collectives.
modnay at 20:00
at salon mazal