Jewish Socialist
No 75
Summer 2021
In print and online
- Features: Jewish Socialist 75 Editorial
- Features: Describing injustice
- Features: A defining moment
- Features: Partners in hate crime
Print version only
In print and online
• Features: Jewish Socialist 75 Editorial
• Features: Describing injustice
• Features: A defining moment
• Features: Partners in hate crime
Print version only
Read Editorial
Contents
News
Popular struggle in Poplar – 100th anniversary; New melodies for meaningful words; Jewish Roma solidarity; After Trump – voices of American Jewish radicals; Warsaw outing for banner of sisterhood; No penalties for racism; Time to stop financing Polish fascism; Zones of repression; Fringe benefits
Regulars
Change the World: Green Olive Tours
Wisewords
Features
Describing injustice: Roy Yellin of B’Tselem and Rachel Beitarie of Zochrot analyse the situation in Israel and Palestine today
A defining moment: Julia Bard evaluates the challenge to the IHRA definition posed by the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism
A fishing expedition: Raf Salkie reviews Jewish Voice for Labour’s analysis of the EHRC report into antisemitism in the Labour Party
Making of an activist: Black, Jewish, feminist and working class – Aviah Day speaks to Jewish Socialist
The Yiddish piece of the Spanish jigsaw: Lynne Walsh talks to Deborah Green, who devotes her life to researching the records of Jews in the Spanish Civil War
Rights for Jews without wrongs to others: David Rosenberg argues for the Bund’s approach of self-determination to counter ethno-nationalist supremacy
Continuing and lively legacy: Michael Zylberman reports on a thriving Bundist community in Melbourne, Australia
Partners in hate crime: Rob Ferguson’s powerful words of protest against Britain’s invitation to Hungary’s leader Viktor Orbán
Choosing conviction over class: John Hilary looks back at the life of socialist film-maker, pacifist and anti-Nazi, Rudolph Messel
Reviews
Red Lives – review by Lynne Walsh
Shame Pudding – review by Ruby Moshenska
Berlin to London: An emotional history of two refugees – review by Rayah Feldman
Catching Tadpoles: The shaping of a young rebel, a memoir – review by Richard Kuper
Resistance – Voices of exiled writers – review by Charlotte Williams plus poetry
Poetry
Convoy 62, November 1943: poems by Michael Rosen
Events
- Jewish Bloc on Nakba 75 march
13 May 2023, London
Show the growing Jewish support for justice, equality and freedom for Palestinians on the 75th anniversary of the Nakba. - March with the JSG to show our support for striking workers!
1 February 2023, London
Teachers, university staff, and civil service workers nationally are striking plus ASLEF and RMT. Meeting point for JSG and friends: 11 - 11.20am outside Caffè Nero, 273 Regents Street, London W1B 2EZ. - Britain Is Broken. Strike. Protest. Resist. General Election now!
5 November 2022, London
March with the JSG in this national demo to demand a General Election now. - Roma Holocaust Memorial Day
2 August 2022, London
- Cost of Living demonstration tomorrow!
18 June 2022, London
Join progressive Jewish groups on the Cost of Living March
Jewish Socialist magazine
No 78 out now:
No 78 coming soon
Repression in Berlin
Protest in Israel
Daniel Kahn interview
New wave of eugenics
