This is a conversation with Cindy Milstein, editor of the book “There is Nothing so Whole as a Broken Heart: Mending the World As Jewish Anarchists“

What we talked about:

• Displacement as part of the Jewish experience
• Being diaspora (Jewish and Arab)
• Having communities without states
• Politics of language (Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino etc)
• Authoritarianism and flattening our differences
• Jewish anarchism
• Hegemonic narratives in Europe (Examples of Dreyfus affair, Alsace, Berlin, Spain)
• Oral histories
• Tisha B’av, 1492, Tree of Life massacre and needing a language for grief
• Wrestling with difficulties
• Antisemitism on the right and the left

Recommended Books:

• An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
• The Four Profound Weaves by R.B. Lemberg
• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

And as promised in the episode:

As promised in the episode, I am sharing with y'all songs and clips in Yiddish, Ladino and Judeo-Arabic.

Let's start with Ladino with this beautiful rendition of a lullaby, Nani Nani https://t.co/9Wdx1isvmk

— The Fire These Times Project (@FireTheseTimes) January 26, 2022

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