(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #235 - Read: Jean Marc Izrine, "The libertarian Yiddishland" (fr, pt)

Jean-Marc Izrine is a Libertarian activist Alternative Toulouse. His book is a reprint 
greatly enriched. This book is the result of very extensive research in terms of stories, 
illustrations, documents. It explores a topic largely neglected. ---- At a time when 
anti-Semitic Zionists propagate the image of Jews bankers or dominant side, we discover a 
world proletarian trying to escape poverty. They and they engage in "Jewish trades". How 
this population very religious and just starting out shtetls (literally, towns, villages) 
has she been able to play such a crucial role in the revolutionary movement and in 
particular in the libertarian movement? Jean-Marc speaks Libertarian messianism. We see 
activists and activists demonstrating in front of the synagogues (the rabbis were often 
seen as collaborators with the powerful) and blaspheming cheerfully.

The class struggle through the Jewish world both in countries of origin where they 
migrate. In London, in sweatshops (sweatshops), the Jewish workers libertarians face 
hateful bosses Anglo-Jews. Jean-Marc, you made ??a world tour of countries where the 
Jewish anarchist movement was active and powerful. We discover the role they played in 
Bavaria and Hungary in the brief periods when the workers' councils exist. We cross known 
as libertarian Landauer, M?hsam, Volin (which play an important role in the insurgency 
Makhnovist Ukraine) Berckman or Goldman, but also Jewish people who were influenced by the 
libertarian movement (Kafka, Benjamin, Buber) . In the United States, the libertarian 
Yiddish newspaper Freie Arbeiter Stimme (voice free worker) exist from 1890 to 1977.

Finally, the book examines the complex Jewish libertarians have with Zionism reports. 
These range from outright hostility to illusions about the kibbutz or the possibility of 
building an emancipated in Israel / Palestine society. Today the Israeli colonialist 
movement "Anarchists against the Wall" has chosen without specific reference to the 
libertarian movement be called "anarchist".

Pierre Stambul (Ami AL)

Jean-Marc Izrine, Libertarians of Yiddishland Editions Libertarian Alternative, 150 p. 16 
euros.