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by Ben, Jordan and Zach
Join us as we explore the political, cultural and social implications of life in diaspora. We wander across a variety of topics, grounding a socialist diasporist perspective through conversations with social movement organizers and scholars from around the world. While primarily focused on the Jewish world, we dialogue with people from non-Jewish communities which share the experience of diaspora and exile and situate Jewish communities in their diverse national contexts.Get in touch at contact@jewishdiasporist.com!Support us by donating at patreon.com/TheJewishDiasporistYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HamotziNetwork/podcastsInstagra
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- 1 weeks ago1h 14m
Layers of Diaspora w/ Sydney Levy
In this episode Ben sits down Sydney Levy, a longtime activist and organizer who has worked with JVP, formerly as advocacy director, CJNV (Center for Jewish Nonviolence), JSWANA Bay and other organizations. Throughout the conversation, Sydney speaks about his experiences growing up within the insular Venezuelan Jewish community, before moving to Jerusalem as an "accidental settler" while studying at the Hebrew University before moving to the US.Sydney leads us toward an understanding of how experiences of diaspora, displacement and immigration, can layer upon one another to create a tapestry of multirooted identities. We also explore the context-dependent nature of identity labels and their significance in relation to struggles toward a better world.Read some of Sydney's recent writing in Gazoz de Frambuaz.Subscribe to our shared YouTube channelFollow us on InstagramIf you like the work we're doing here, please consider supporting us on Patreon!Big thank you to Aly Halpert for continuing to allow us to use her music!
- Apr 18, 20261h 17m
The United Jewish People’s Order 100 Years On
In this episode we speak with three organizers of the United Jewish Peoples Order (UJPO) to explore their organization's storied century-long history, and its present work as a community organization committed to developing secular socialist Jewish life in Toronto (and Canada more broadly) through educational, cultural and social events and programs.Join UJPO, Naomi Klein and others on June 11th for UJPO's Centennial Celebration (Available virtually and in person)Follow the UJPO on instagram!Subscribe to our shared YouTube channelFollow us on InstagramIf you like the work we're doing here, please consider supporting us on Patreon!Big thank you to Aly Halpert for continuing to allow us to use her music!
- Feb 18, 20261h 3m
Miami's Leftist Sephardi Zine w/ Emanuel Ovadia
Ben and Zach are joined by Emanuel Ovadia, creator and editor of Gazoz De Frambuaz, a Ladino-centering zine based in Miami Florida. Gazoz De Frambuaz (Raspberry Soda) serves as a metaphor for the cultural exchange that's served as a a wellspring for Sephardic culture across the region that Sephardic Jews made their home after the Spanish Inquisition: Southwest Asia and North Africa. Our conversation grounds us in the history of the Ladino language, before exploring contemporary Sephardi cultural institutions to situate the contribution of Gazoz De Frambuaz to modern Sephardi culture.Follow Gazoz De Frambuaz on Instagram to stay up to date on all their work!Print your own copies!Subscribe to our shared YouTube channelFollow us on InstagramBig thank you to Aly Halpert for continuing to allow us to use her music!
- Dec 20, 20251h 5m
Bored of Deputies w/ Daniel Grossman
Ben and Zach speak to Daniel Grossman, a member of Na'amod and fellow (former?) organiser within the British Jewish community, including the Union of Jewish Students and Board of Deputies. Our paths have crossed before...Member of UK Jewish body resigns over failure to call out Israel on Gaza | UK news | The Guardian (That's Dan!)yourparty.jewishdiasporist.comSubscribe to our collaborative YouTubeFollow us on InstagramBig thank you to Aly Halpert for continuing to allow us to use her music!
- Nov 22, 202559 min
Jewish Day Schools Reimagined w/ Achvat Olam
Zach speaks to Leah Robbins, one of the organisers behind the Achvat Olam Community Day School, the groundbreaking project to establish the first diasporist Jewish day school in Boston.(apologies for the audio being a bit rusty - Z)Learn more about Achvat OlamSubscribe to our collaborative YouTubeFollow us on InstagramIf you like the work we're doing here, please consider supporting us on Patreon!Big thank you to Aly Halpert for continuing to allow us to use her music!
- Sep 20, 20251h 1m
Live w/ Chaia and Rabbi Chel Mandell
Chaia of Kleztronica and Rabbi Chel Mandell of Santa Cruz CA's Tzimtzum Community the first ever episode of the Jewish Diasporist recorded with a live audience. This episode was recorded live on September 15th.Chaia is an electronic composer working at the intersection of Yiddish culture and electronic club music. She weaves archival Yiddish samples with techno and ambient frameworks, creating hybrid folkloric-electronic compositions that situate ancestral sound within global and liberatory rave ecologies.We work closely to partner with radical communities like Tzimtzum and cultural activists like Chaia to create Jewish spaces like this which foster the world to come both on the earth and across cyberspace.Subscribe to our collaborative YouTubeFollow us on InstagramCheck out Chaia's website or stream her music on Spotify!If you like the work we're doing here, please consider supporting us on Patreon!
- Sep 13, 20251h 19m
Diaspora Studies w/ Naomi Seidman
Naomi Seidman, Director of the University of Toronto's Center for Diaspora and Transnational Studies joins us to explore the young academic discipline of Diaspora Studies, its history and contents, and its relationship to other academic fields.Subscribe to our collaborative YouTubeFollow us on InstagramIf you like the work we're doing here, please consider supporting us on Patreon!Big thank you to Aly Halpert for continuing to allow us to use her music!
- Jul 5, 20251h 31m
Ashkenazi Herbal Diasporism w/ Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel
In this episode, we are joined by Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel, authors of "Ashkenazi Herbalism" and recently: "Woven Roots; Recovering the Healing Plant Traditions of Jews and their Neighbors in Eastern Europe." Their new book expands on their earlier work by foregrounding the ways plant medicine served as a medium for coexistence in a land that's often only remembered as a place of Jewish suffering. Through concrete examples, we explored the implications of diaspora for herbal and medicinal traditions. These traditions, often considered backwards and lost to history, can continue to teach us about what it means to be in right relations with all of our neighbors. Get your copy of Woven Roots from Jewitches!Subscribe to our collaborative YouTubeFollow us on InstagramIf you like the work we're doing here, please consider supporting us on Patreon!Big thank you to Aly Halpert for continuing to allow us to use her music!
About The Jewish Diasporist
Join us as we explore the political, cultural and social implications of life in diaspora. We wander across a variety of topics, grounding a socialist diasporist perspective through conversations with social movement organizers and scholars from around the world. While primarily focused on the Jewish world, we dialogue with people from non-Jewish communities which share the experience of diaspora and exile and situate Jewish communities in their diverse national contexts.Get in touch at contact@jewishdiasporist.com!Support us by donating at patreon.com/TheJewishDiasporistYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HamotziNetwork/podcastsInstagra
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