Sunday, May 7, 2023 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Event Presenter/Author:
Anna Elena Torres and Ania Aizman
Ania Aizman and Anna Elena Torres will discuss With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism. They will be joined in conversation by Anne Eakin Moss.
This event will be held in person at The Seminary Co-op. At this time, masks are required for in-store events.
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About the book: With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism brings together more than a dozen scholars and translators to write the first collaborative history of transnational Jewish anarchism. Contributors bring to light the presence and persistence of Jewish anarchism throughout histories of radical labor, women’s studies, political theory, literature, and ethnic studies. These essays reveal an ongoing engagement with non-Jewish radical cultures, including the translation practices of the Jewish anarchist press. Jewish anarchists drew from a matrix of secular, cultural, and religious influences, inventing new anarchist forms that ranged from mystical individualism to militantly atheist revolutionary cells.
About the authors: Ania Aizman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the College. Her current book project is titled “Anarchist Currents in Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Pussy Riot.”
Anna Elena Torres is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. Torres is the author of Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish: Anarchism and Yiddish Literature (Yale University Press, 2023).
About the interlocutor: Anne Eakin Moss is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the College at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Only Among Women: Philosophies of Community in the Russian and Soviet Imagination, 1860-1940 (Northwestern UP 2019).
Event Location:
Seminary Co-Op
5751 S Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60615
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