Etta Federn was bornon April 28th 1883 in Vienna, the youngest daughter of an assimilated Jewish family. She was the daughter of the suffragette Ernestine Federn and the doctor Salomon Federn and the sister of Paul, who became an analyst, Karl, who became a lawyer and writer, and Walter who became a journalist.

She had an education on an equal footing with her brothers. She studied literary history, German and Greek literature. After graduation she began to study German and philosophy. In addition, she received a broad education in foreign languages.

She broke with her family and moved to Berlin, where she completed her studies with a thesis on Faust. She earned her living there first as a teacher and then as a translator from English, French, Danish, Russian and Yiddish. She translated Alexandra Kollontai, Hans Christian Anderson and Shakespeare.

She worked as a literary critic for the newspaper Berliner Tageblatt. She published many biographies including those of Dante and Goethe. At the same time she began to write essays, biographies, autobiographical, stories, a play and poems. She married twice, both marriages ending in separation.

She made contact with the anarchist movement in Berlin and began to participate in the activities of the German anarcho-syndicalist union the FAUD (Free Workers' Union of Germany - Freie Arbeiter Union Deutschlands), contributing articles to its press on a regular basis. She began to make many friends within this movement.

The anarchist movement in Berlin attracted in Etta’s own words many “self-motivated Jewish women who offered their intellectual, emotional and political support to the ideas of social revolution, free education, the importance of cultural work, women’s emancipation and the importance of solidarity and responsible behaviour”.

She met Emma Goldman, Mollie Steimer, and Sonia Flechin, among others. In particular, she maintained a close friendship with Rudolf Rocker and Milly Witkop for life. She took an active part in the women’s organisation founded by the FAUD, the Syndikalistischen Frauenbund -Syndicalist Women’s Organisation (SFB).

She received death threats from the Nazis as a result of her biography of the liberal politician Walter Rathenau, murdered by right wing officers, which was published in 1927. In addition the forces of reaction put pressure on the newspapers and publishing houses she usually wrote for, so that her sources of income began to dry up.

She left Germany for Barcelona in 1932, at the age of 49 with her two sons. In 1933 her books were amongst those destroyed during the Nazi public book burnings and she was placed on the Nazi blacklist.

In Barcelona she received continuing support from the anarchist circles still in Berlin, and in turn she was able to welcome those fleeing to Berlin later. She was able to adapt quickly to Barcelona, writing articles for the Spanish press within weeks and starting to learn Catalan. However, she remained financially straitened, and had to rely on small but regular transfers of money from her close relatives in the USA.

During the Spanish revolution she joined Mujeres Libres (Free Women), the anarchist women’s movement, in July 1936. She taught literature, language and education at the cultural centre set up by Mujeres Libres, the House of the Woman Worker, was based on the teachings of the Spanish libertarian educationalist, Francisco Ferrer.

Later , in 1937, she founded, in collaboration with Mujeres Libres, four libertarian schools in the Catalan city of Blanes. These schools, of which she was the director, trained teachers as well as teaching children. They were co-educational, with an orientation towards atheism and antimilitarism, and designed to have an anxiety free, stimulating and caring atmosphere for children.

In May 1937 she returned to Barcelona and had her book Mujeres de las Revoluciones , which included biographical sketches of twelve famous women, published by Mujeres Libres.

In 1938, because of the massive bombing raids on Barcelona she left for Paris with her two sons.

Between 1940-1945 she moved to Lyons. She was by now completely exhausted physically and sometimes seriously ill. Despite this, she engaged in resistance work through translations, propaganda work and organisation.

Her oldest son Hans died in 1944 in the fighting at Vercors. Paradoxically it was because of this that she became entitled to French nationality and a small monthly pension, although she remained in poverty until her death in Paris ion May 9th, 1951.

She features as a literary personality in a novel of the Swedish anarchist writer Stig Dagerman (who had married the German anarchist Annemarie Goetze) Skuggen av Mart (Stockholm 1947) and in Utan Vaiaktig stad (Stockholm 1948) the novel of another Swedish writer, Arne Fosberg.

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He was the one who wrote “The Scroll of the Steamed Portions of Ham.”

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Faye Schulman, born on this day in 1919, was a Jewish partisan and photographer who took up arms against the Nazis who were responsible for killing her family.

On August 14th, 1942, the Germans killed 1,850 Jews from the "Lenin" ghetto (named after Lenin, Poland, where Faye was from), including her parents, sisters, and younger brother. Faye was spared for her ability to develop photographs, and the Nazis ordered Faye to develop their photographs of the massacre. Later, she cited taking a photo of her dead family in a mass grave as the impetus to take up arms.

During a partisan raid on the camp, Faye fled to the forests and joined the Molotava Brigade, a partisan group mostly comprised of escaped Soviet Red Army POWs. She was accepted because her brother-in-law had been a doctor and they were desperate for anyone who knew anything about medicine. Faye served the group as a nurse from September 1942 to July 1944, even though she had no previous medical experience.

During another raid on the Lenin ghetto, Faye succeeded in recovering her old photographic equipment. During the next two years, she took over a hundred photographs, developing the medium format negatives under blankets and making "sun prints" during the day. While on missions, Faye buried the camera and tripod to keep it safe. Schulman is the only known Jewish partisan photographer from this era.

"I want people to know that there was resistance. Jews did not go like sheep to the slaughter. I was a photographer. I have pictures. I have proof."

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After liberation, Faye married Morris Schulman, also a Jewish partisan. Faye and Morris enjoyed a prosperous life as decorated Soviet partisans, but wanted to leave Pinsk, Poland, which reminded them of "a graveyard." Morris and Faye lived in the Landsberg displaced persons camp in Germany for the next three years and immigrated to Canada in 1948.

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'We are good we are flawed we are the breath of an imperfect g-d'

Co-signed by many of the mainstream U.S. Jewish organizations, clearly harder to roust up the fatigued rank-and-file. Even with a free meal voucher, only 2000 show up to a stadium with capacity for 40,000.

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critique of leiffer (dissent magazine editor btw) book. Rather interesting idiosyncrasies of zionist liberal (shooting and crying variety)

Psychic identification with the Nazis or European colonialists is socially unacceptable, and so such identification takes place via a negative formation: we are not the “Jew with trembling knees” exterminated in the Shoah, we are not the “backwards” Jew of the shtetl or the naively idealistic Jew of the Bund, we are not the “backwards” colonized Palestinian or Arab living under foreign rule.

With each new murder, each new expulsion, Zionists further cast their ballot on the side of the antisemites: they reaffirm particularity against the universal, they transform the world into, per Adorno and Horkheimer again, “the hell they have always taken it to be.” This negation voids Judaism’s historical content—the construction of the law against power, homeland without nation, messianism which reconciles past wrongs.

In a similar vein, that Hasbara has become more untethered from rational argumentation since this intensification of the genocide of the Palestinians reveals Hasbara’s libidinal core: blind domination, even on the field of reason. As the physical domination of the Palestinians reverts once again to the murderous blindness of its origin, so too does the propaganda which justifies it. The façade of lies and innuendos which the Zionist has constructed—Israel as a liberal-democratic nation, as a bastion of tolerance in a sea of hatred, as the most “moral army” in the world, Palestine as backwards, fundamentalist, incapable of peace—collapses under the weight of its actually existing actions. The performance of a false unity and its derivative power must be emphasized all the more.

it seems ordinary israelis really do be living in the alternative realm

kinda meandering family- and self-exploration piece, but i think its nice

Rabbinical students clutch pearls over the existence of anti Zionists in their class; complain about “communist literature.”

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I don't normally like Vox.

But this was a good article, if a bit liberal.

I'm reading Levy's The Dawn of Agriculture and the Earliest States in Genesis 1-11 and thought I'd share this screenshot. Really well written and researched book. Levy cites the midrash (fn77) from:

Pirqe Rebbe Eliezer, 24. [Heb], editio princeps, Constantinople, 1514. folio 16b. Digitized Copy, Hebrew Union College, Klau Library, in the Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer Manuscript Database.

One of the symbols on the Passover Seder plate is “karpas”- a spring vegetable. (Parsley, celery, or boiled potato) which is dipped into salt water.

One explanation for “Karpas” כרפּס is the the first three letters spelled backwards are פּרך, Parekh, or harsh labor which is the term for how the Israelites were overworked in Egypt.

After reading Kapital part 1, I’ve been thinking of how capitalism necessitates Parekh: unnatural labor, labor without limit, labor without purpose, labor without regard for the humans doing it, labor that only exists to be stolen. And I fervently hope for a future where Parekh is abolished and obsolete.

Happy Passover comrades!