Faith Hillis on the Jewish Labor Bund

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In this episode Hannah Szabó speaks with the historian Faith Hillis about the Jewish Labor Bund and the renewed interest in the history of Jewish radicalism, including two books Faith reviewed or Berlin Review: Molly Crabapple’s “Here Where We Live is Our Country” and “The Radical Jewish Tradition" by Donny Gluckstein and Janey Stone.

They discuss the scattered archives and memoirs where Faith has researched the history of this radical movement, what anti-Zionism meant before the war and how it differs from definitions today and how the tradition of Bundism might be carried forward today.

Faith’s essay “Radical Jewish Traditions: Then and Now” in Reader 7 of Berlin Review: https://blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/2026-06/geschichte-juedischer-radikalitaet-faith-hillis

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