With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism

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.

Author: Anna Elena Torres
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 05/02/2023
Pages: 284
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.06w x 0.87d
ISBN13: 9780252087141
ISBN10: 0252087143
BISAC Categories:
- History | Jewish | General
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Anarchism
- Social Science | Jewish Studies

About the Author
Anna Elena Torres is an assistant professor in the department of comparative literature at the University of Chicago and the author of Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish: Anarchism and Yiddish Literature. Kenyon Zimmer is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America.