Culture
A new קינד on the podcast block
The Cockney Yiddish Podcast explores the evolution of the diasporic language and the symbiosis necessary to its survival thus far and to its revival, today.
History
Culture
The geometry of remembering
An essay on genocide, collective memory, and talking to the dead.
Culture
Strange loops of history: the forgotten visions of Harry Fainlight
The reluctant beat poet's diasporic writing could guide us through our winding lineage and inspire Anglo-Jewish futures.
History
How Britain paved the way for a century of Zionist colonialism
"While British support for Zionism is often framed around claims about Jewish safety, the reality is that Britain supported the Zionist movement and issued the Balfour Declaration for its own imperialist aims."
Culture
Marking the future’s past
The history and purpose behind Vashti’s new logo
Palestine-Israel
‘I am the saddest, angriest, most disappointed Jew in the world’
An interview with Holocaust survivor Marione Ingram.
History
Six million and one
‘By my death I wish to make the strongest possible protest against the passivity with which the world is permitting the extermination of the Jewish people.’
History
The battle of Nelson Street
Vashti reports on a Muslim mayor's fight to save the Jewish East End.
History
The Soviet-Jewish experience, revisited
A new book presents ambivalence as its core motif.
History
Marching on together
Remembering the tailors' strikes of 1888, when Leeds' Jews revolted.
History
Organised aliens
A history of radical Jewish migrants.
History
Empty cradles
Where did Israel’s Yemenite children go?