Berlin Review · Faith Hillis on the Jewish Labor Bund

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Faith Hillis on the Jewish Labor Bund

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In this episode the historian and writer Faith Hillis speaks about the Jewish Labor Bund, a secular, socialist Jewish political party founded in the Russian Empire in 1897. She discusses two new books on Jewish radicalism and the danger of reaching for the past as a weapon in current political fights.

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In this episode Hannah Szabó speaks with the historian Faith Hillis about the Jewish Labor Bund and the renewed interest in the history of Jewish radicalism, including two books Faith reviewed for Berlin Review: Molly Crabapple’s Here Where We Live is Our Country and The Radical Jewish Tradition by Donny Gluckstein and Janey Stone.

They discuss the scattered archives and memoirs where Faith has researched the history of this radical movement, what anti-Zionism meant before the war and how it differs from definitions today and how the tradition of Bundism might be carried forward today.

Faith’s essay Radical Jewish Traditions: Then and Now in Reader 7 of Berlin Review.

Veröffentlicht am 17.0.2026