Join IIJS, the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life, and the Department of Religion on Tuesday, October 10, for “Histories of Jewish Anarchism,” a virtual conversation with Anna Elena Torres (University of Chicago), Kenyon Zimmer (University of Texas at Arlington), Mohamed Abdou (Cornell University), and William Anderson (writer and activist). This conversation will be moderated by Clémence Boulouque, Columbia’s Carl and Bernice Witten Associate Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies.

This event has been canceled.

This event highlights a recent collection of essays, With Freedom in Our Ears. Jewish anarchism has long been marginalized in histories of anarchist thought and action. Anna Elena Torres and Kenyon Zimmer have edited a collection of essays that 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. In this event, the editors of this collection will be joined by two scholars and activists who focus on other traditions of anarchism, for a broad ranging conversation.