Mending the World: A Jewish-Arab Diaspora Conversation w/ Cindy Milstein (E101)

This is a conversation with Cindy Milstein, they (I wrongly used 'she' in the intro) are the 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 Link to Yiddish, Ladino and Judeo-Arabic songs: https://twitter.com/FireTheseTimes/status/1486260615828021249