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29 May 202613 Sivan 5786
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Why Worshipping the Bund Is BullshitWhat do anti-Zionist actress Hannah Einbinder, illustrator Molly Crabapple and The Economist magazine have in common? The newly-fashionable idea that Jews would be better off if they traded in Zionism for Bundism, a niche brand of pre-1945 European socialism that died with the Holocaust.byDebbie LechtmanIn some ways, the Jewish Labor Bund appears to be tailor-made for this exact political moment—a label that allows self-styled socialists to identify as Jews while also sharing the opposition of their wider cohort to Zionism. Similarly, the attachment of the Bund to Yiddish offers an authentically Jewish-flavored alternative to Hebrew, the tongue of Zionist oppression. It is no wonder, then, that a range of voices from the anti-Zionist Jewish actress Hannah Einbinder, to the illustrator Molly Crabapple, to the august British magazine The Economist are promoting Bundism as a “Jewish alternative” to Zionism, and to its troublesome insistence on the Jewish need for a homeland to keep from being murdered en masse.
There is a small problem with Bundism, though: It ceased to exist as a meaningful political movement among Jews by 1945. To understand why is to understand just how historically empty the current gestures at a Bundist revival are, as well as the fate to which they are likely to lead....Continue reading →︎
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[H2] May 27: The MAGA Spin Machine Sells a Lemon
Paxton beats Cornyn in Texas primary; Candace Owens plans “vacation” to Russia; Could the feds go after right-wing influencers next?Continue Reading...
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[H2] May 27: The MAGA Spin Machine Sells a Lemon
Paxton beats Cornyn in Texas primary; Candace Owens plans “vacation” to Russia; Could the feds go after right-wing influencers next?Continue Reading...
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MAY 2026 PRINT EDITIONMatisse at WarTrying to make a political hero out of a man who, for better and worse, cared only about his artbyElroy Rosenberg
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MAY 2026 PRINT EDITIONMiles Davis at 100The high-wire act of a profound soloistbyGerald Early“Coleman Hawkins told me never to play with someone older than me, and I never have.” —Miles Davis, 1978
Of course, this is not quite true. Trumpeter Miles Davis began his professional career—with musicians who mattered in making him a national figure—in July 1944 at the age of 18 playing with the Billy Eckstine band at St. Louis’ Club Riviera. “So I got on the bandstand,” Davis said, “and started playing, I was third trumpet. I couldn’t even read the music at first from listening to Dizzy and Bird, but I knew the book because I loved the music so much.” Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and alto saxophonist Charlie “Bird” Parker, the two most innovative instrumentalists in American music at the time, were among his bandmates. Eckstine’s was the most cutting-edge jazz band in the country. ...Continue reading →︎
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