With Freedom in Our Ears

Histories of Jewish Anarchism

Anna Elena Torres, Kenyon Zimmer, Anna Elena Torres, Kenyon Zimmer

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9780252087141, 9780252045011
• eBook ISBN: 9780252054280
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Jewish History
• Index: History

Jewish anarchism has long been marginalized in histories of anarchist thought and action. Anna Elena Torres and Kenyon Zimmer edit a collection of essays which recovers many aspects of this erased tradition.

Contributors bring to light the presence and persistence of Jewish anarchism throughout histories of radical labor, women's studies, political theory, multilingual literature, and ethnic studies.

These essays reveal an ongoing engagement with non-Jewish radical cultures, including the translation practices of the Jewish anarchist press. Jewish anarchists drew from a matrix of secular, cultural, and religious influences, inventing new anarchist forms that ranged from mystical individualism to militantly atheist revolutionary cells.

With Freedom in Our Ears brings together more than a dozen scholars and translators to write the first collaborative history of international, multilingual, and transdisciplinary Jewish anarchism.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Transliteration
• Freedom’s Fullness: An Introduction to Jewish Anarchisms
• Chapter 1. Johann Most and Yiddish Anarchism, 1876–1906
• Chapter 2. Political Satire in the Yiddish Anarchist Press, 1890–1918
• Chapter 3. Jewish Anarchist Temporalities
• Chapter 4. The Debate on Expropriations in Early Twentieth-Century Russian Anarchism
• Chapter 5. Translation, Politics, Pragmatism, and the American Yiddish Press
• Chapter 6. Jews and North American Anarcho-Syndicalism: The Jewish Leadership of the Union of Russian Workers
• Chapter 7. The Storm of Revolution: The Fraye arbeter shtime Reports on the Russian Revolution of 1905
• Chapter 8. Divine Fire: Alfred Stieglitz’s Anarchism
• Chapter 9. In the Jewish Tower: Prison Stories by a Forgotten Anarchist
• Chapter 10. Jewish American Anarchist Women, 1920–1950: The Politics of Sexuality
• Conclusion. The Past and Futures of Jewish Anarchist History
• Contributors
• Index
• Back Cover