Yiddish New York 2024

Name: Social Justice: There, Where We Live, That is Our Country – History & Ongoing Life of the Jewish Labour Bund
Start: 2024-12-23T14:30:00-0500
End: 2024-12-23T15:45:00-0500

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Monday December 23, 2024 2:30pm - 3:45pm EST

507 - Hebrew Union College

There, where we live, that is our country – the history and ongoing life of the Jewish Labour Bund w/ Jeyn Levison
The General Jewish Labour Bund (the Bund) was founded in Vilna in 1897 and is still active today—a movement rooted in three pillars: socialism, doikayt (here-ness in Yiddish—the concept that Jews live and work in solidarity wherever we live); and yidishkayt (Yiddish language and secular Jewish culture).

In this four-part session, we will explore all three pillars, with a deeper focus on the doikayt and yidishkayt that also grounds Yiddish New York. We will explore and discuss what the Bund can offer us today, and what our history teaches us about the times we now live in.

Presenting Molly Crabapple (upcoming book: a history of the Jewish Labor Bund); the documentary film Bund: The Hope and the Past; the NYC and Melbourne chapters of the Bund (Maddan, Strawberry Leaf, Dvora Zylberman); and Josh Waletzky (teaching Yiddish Bundist songs throughout the week).

Session will be presented on site at Yiddish New York and online via Zoom. Masks required to attend this session.

This session will include a discussion of Bund: The Hope and the Past. (A LINK TO VIEW THE FILM WILL BE POSTED HERE) A 1987 Yiddish-language film by Israeli filmmaker David Kedem that explores the history of the Bund and the progressive labor group’s continuity in New York City. Featuring rare interviews with leading New York Bundists, including some important members of the current Yiddish scene. We are excited to present this film featuring new subtitles produced especially for Yiddish New York by Josh Waletzky.

Speakers

Josh Waletzky

Josh Waletzky**(vocals, film) is a leading contemporary Yiddish songwriter and an award-winning documentary filmmaker.He co-produced the Grammy-nominated album of Jewish songs of resistance, Partisans of Vilna (1989), and his groundbreaking CD of original Yiddish songs, Crossing... Read More →

Jeyn Levison

Jeyn Levison** (social justice) is the Associate Director of the Just and Inclusive Society program at the Democracy Fund. Jeyn has also worked in racial justice, immigrant rights and low-wage worker labor, LGBTQIA+, and Jewish social justice organizing—and is a long-time member... Read More →

Monday December 23, 2024 2:30pm - 3:45pm EST
507 - Hebrew Union College 1 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012

Social Justice (Hybrid)

Yiddish New York 2024

Josh Waletzky

Jeyn Levison

Attendees (24)

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