Through stories at once poetic and poignant, There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart offers a powerful elixir for all who rebel against systemic violence and injustice. The contemporary renewal of Jewish anarchism draws on a history of suffering, ranging from enslavement and displacement to white nationalism and genocide. Yet it also pulls from ancestral resistance, strength, imagination, and humor—all qualities, and wisdom, sorely needed today. These essays, many written from feminist and queer perspectives, journey into ancestral and contemporary trauma in ways that are humanizing and healing. They build bridges from bittersweet grief to rebellion and joy. Through concrete illustrations of how Jewish anarchists imaginatively create their own ritual, cultural, and political practices, they clearly illuminate the path toward mending ourselves and the world.
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Prologue
Cindy Milstein
Part I: The Art of Remembrance
Screaming — Ami Weintraub
Dialectics of Mourning, Dialectics of Bricks — Magpie
[Title to come] — Josie Shapiro
And You Shall Love — Alice Ross
Reunion — Ali Nissenbaum
Justice — Matylda Tzvia Jonas
I Am Not Finished Grieving, and Now I Will Never Be — Diana Clarke
To My Beloved Jews and Dissidents — Stefanie Brendler
Of Performing Mitzvahs and Toppling Kings — S.G.
If I Wasn’t Taught to Remember, I Might Be Just Another Citizen — [pseudonym]
There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart — Cindy Milstein
Part II: The Art of Rebellion [Resilience?]
The Milk Pot — Xava Juarez
Ker A Velt — Eliui Damm
Part III: The Art of Repair
Washing the Dead in Pittsburgh — Jordana Rosenfeld
Breaking Bread and Breaking Free — Elias Lowe
Ritual Technology for a Liberated Future — Jay Tzvia Helfand
Last of Elul — Mikveh Warshaw
On Making and Holding Space — Michael Loadenthal
A Klezmer Playlist for an All-Out Revolt against Fascism — Aaron Lakoff
A Fiddlerose, a Wind, a Strand of Foam, a Drop of Wine: Using Jewish Cultural Material in Our Movements — rosza daniel lang/levitsky
Fighting Fascists with Folk. Art — Jay Saper
We Are the Golems They Fear: On Queerness, Anarchist Struggle, and Jewish Mythology — Zelda Gazelle
Rebellious Anarchist Young Jews — RAYJ Collective
Trans Rabbis — Noam Lerman
Jewish Anarchist Drag — Abbie Goldberg
Queer Purim Spiel — Gillian Goldberg and Ben Case
Radio613 — Madeleine Nerenberg and Avi Grenadier
Radical Jewish Calendar
Sobre el autor
Cindy Milstein is author of Anarchism and Its Aspirations and editor of the anthologies Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism, Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief, and Deciding for Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy. Long engaged in anarchistic organizing, contemporary social movements, and collective spaces, for the past couple years Cindy focused on doing support work for the J20 defendants, touring extensively with her latest edited anthology, Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief, and co-organizing the 2019 Montreal Anarchist Bookfair. Currently, Cindy co-organizes the Institute for Advanced Troublemaking, and is honored, when called on, to do death doula and grief care.