Note: This episode was recorded on May 14, 2024, prior to the arrests made at the UC Berkeley "Hind's House" encampment.

For this episode, we interviewed Zalman Tzipporah, a Bundist student and organizer, who has been attending University at Berkeley CA, but in past months has been completing a Semester in Berlin. In our conversation we explored Zalman's road to Bundism and how these ideas have shaped his experience in these distinct geographies; from Yiddishism to their practice of hereness in there collegial homes of Berkeley and Berlin.

We initially met Zalman through our shared participation in the effort to rebuild the International Jewish Labour Bund, but he also joined Zach in Krakow to help organize a Jewish Bloc for the city's May Day Demonstration. This was the first organized Jewish bloc at a demonstration in Poland in generations.

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Big thank you to Isabel Frey for allowing us to use her rendition of the Bund's anthem, Di Shvue.