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July 13, 2007
Jewish Currents: Hip to be Square
I got a comp copy of Jewish Currents a few days ago, a publication I had heard of but never read. Thanks go to Jews for Racial & Economic Jusitice for the pitch.
The magazine, a "progressive, secular bimonthly" published by the Workmen's Circle, is braceingly old-fashioned, starting with a logo that appears unchanged since the 1930s. It remains staunchly black-and-white with no aspirations to be cutting-edge in look or content (unlike, say, Kesher Talk and its transgressive content).
The July-August issue cover article is "Around the World," a good internationalist look at Jewish activism in Australia, Uruguay, Germany and Peru. Content is a mix of the historic -- "'Trial' in Lubyanka, 1952" -- and the eternal -- "The American System of Miseducation."
All in all, worth a look on the train ride to the city. It's not every day a publication with a deep red (that's "red" in the "proletarian-uprising" sense of the word, not "red-state" red) heritage winds up in the Wallach mailbox.
Van | 07/13/07 at 06:54 AM | Categories: Doing Jewish
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A pervert even in your reading.
This place became exceedingly boring. Judith, are you still interested in keeping up this blog?
Tatyana | July 13, 2007 09:33 AM
Say what?
I didn't even write that entry. But how is it "perverted"?
If you're bored, there are a million other blogs out there.
Judith Weiss | July 15, 2007 12:36 AM
This is sad on several grounds.
My parents were active in the Workmen's Circle and I still have memories of sitting around the dining room table with my brothers during my mother's term as corresponding secretary of the Detroit branch--her role as corresponding secretary meant that every month or so she'd put us to work stuffing, sealing, and stamping the envelopes.
So we got, and I read, the group's magazine, either "The Call" or "The Workmen's Circle Call." In any case, it was clear-minded and quite decidedly anti-communist. "Jewish Currents" was communist, and I'm using the term very carefully. It may not have been an actual CP front but its line faithfully echoed the pro-Soviet line. Now...
The Workmen's Circle used to be a small but vital part of the democratic left, the left that had no illusions about the Soviet Union or about the sort of ideology that led to the gulag. Now...
Alex Bensky | July 15, 2007 05:37 AM
This is sad on several grounds.
My parents were active in the Workmen's Circle and I still have memories of sitting around the dining room table with my brothers during my mother's term as corresponding secretary of the Detroit branch--her role as corresponding secretary meant that every month or so she'd put us to work stuffing, sealing, and stamping the envelopes.
So we got, and I read, the group's magazine, either "The Call" or "The Workmen's Circle Call." In any case, it was clear-minded and quite decidedly anti-communist. "Jewish Currents" was communist, and I'm using the term very carefully. It may not have been an actual CP front but its line faithfully echoed the pro-Soviet line. Now...
The Workmen's Circle used to be a small but vital part of the democratic left, the left that had no illusions about the Soviet Union or about the sort of ideology that led to the gulag. Now...
Alex Bensky | July 15, 2007 05:37 AM
