Description: An innovative study of Yiddish literature that reveals the impact of anarchist movements and refugee organizing on Jewish literary history
Review Quotes: "Anna Elena Torres thoughtfully examines the engagement of Yiddish writers with anarchist movements from the nineteenth century through the post-World War II period. This provocative book introduces a new dimension to Yiddish literary studies."--Amelia Glaser, author of Songs in Dark Times
"Anna Elena Torres mines a rich universe of Yiddish poetry for her concept of 'anarchist diasporism, ' a radical politics of migration, translation, and exile. Her historically-informed politics of prefiguration and mutual aid offers needed resources to today's anti-fascist struggles."--Kathy E. Ferguson, author of Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture "This breathtaking study of Yiddish anarchism is at once instructive, sobering, and stirring. Using diasporism to explore the movement's rich literature and neglected history, Torres forcefully defends anarchism as a strategy of action and ideal of comradeship."--Ruth Kinna, author of The Government of No One "In this groundbreaking and politically urgent work of archival recovery, Anna Torres highlights the ways Yiddish literature offers strategies to negotiate the surveillance, detention, censorship, and deportation underlying an 'anarchist diasporism.'"--Juno Jill Richards, author of The Fury Archives