A bold recovery of Yiddish anarchist history and literatureSpanning the last two centuries, this fascinating work combines archival research on the radical press and close readings of Yiddish poetry to offer an original literary study of the Jewish anarchist movement. The narrative unfolds through a cast of historical characters, from the well known—such as Emma Goldman—to the more obscure, including an anarchist rabbi who translated the Talmud and a feminist docto...

For the first time, this volume centers the rich but little known history of radical Jewish politics in the Middle East and North Africa and puts it into conversation with developments in the Americas, South Africa, Soviet Asia, and Europe. Jews were attracted to radical politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to transform the societies they lived in but also out of a deep desire to belong. Somewhat paradoxically, then, radical politics held out the enticing possibility...

Jewish anarchism has long been marginalized in histories of anarchist thought and action. Anna Elena Torres and Kenyon Zimmer edit a collection of essays which recovers many aspects of this erased tradition.Contributors bring to light the presence and persistence of Jewish anarchism throughout histories of radical labor, women’s studies, political theory, multilingual literature, and ethnic studies.These essays reveal an ongoing engagement with non-Jewish radical cultures, ...

"Elena allo specchio" presenta un testo teatrale, ambientato nell'antichità, a cui seguono due racconti, "Lele" e "Eli e Paris", ambientati ai nostri tempi. La commedia si svolge tra l'Olimpo e la Terra. Gli dei, e soprattutto le dee, si confrontano in dialoghi spassosi, giungendo ad affidare a Mercurio e Iride la missione di trovare sulla terra un uomo che assegni la mela d'oro alla più bella tra Giunone, Minerva e Venere. Sarà Paride il prescelto, e premierà Venere, assicurandosi così l'...