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Thank you for coming to my talk at the Birkbeck Institute.

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I'd love to connect with you! Unfortunately I missed most of the chat comments but I could tell it was full of interesting people and ideas. Do email me at homeandfreedom@gmail.com.

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I recommended this incredible panel discussion in my talk's conclusion:

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A Movement to Meet the Moment (Panel Discussion on Countering the Far Right, with Organizers Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, Scot Nakagawa, Adrienne Evans, Rachel O’Leary Carmona and Dove Kent), 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbmbQJAjvY8.

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For more on radical Jews of color in the 1960s & 1970s:

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Melendez, Benjy, and Amir Said. Ghetto Brother: How I Found Peace in the South Bronx Street Gang Wars : A Memoir. New York: Superchamp Books, 2015.

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Pierce, Rebecca. No Man’s Land (Film about Reuven Abergel & the Israeli Black Panthers), 2017. https://www.rebeccapiercefilms.com/shorts.html.

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Website of Aurora Levins Morales (Puerto Rican Jewish scholar, activist and red diaper baby). http://www.auroralevinsmorales.com/.

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Website of Devin E. Naar (Professor of Sephardic Studies, University of Washington - Note: Most work here is on earlier periods of Sephardi history). http://devinenaar.com.

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Selected sources for my talk: 

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“Black Power: A Reprint of a Position Paper for the SNCC Vine City Project.” United States National Student Association, 1966. https://www.crmvet.org/docs/6604_sncc_atlanta_race.pdf.

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Brown, Elaine. A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story. New York: Anchor Books, 1994.

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Cox, Donald W. Making Revolution: My Life in the Black Panther Party. Berkeley, California: Heyday, 2019.

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Gilbert, David. Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond. Oakland, California: PM Press, 2012.

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Hannah-Jones, Nikole. “A Brutal Loss, But an Enduring Conviction (Interview with Rita Schwerner Bender),” July 22, 2014. https://www.propublica.org/article/a-brutal-loss-but-an-enduring-conviction.

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Isserman, Maurice. If I Had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left. New York: Basic Books, 1987.

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Kaplan, Judy, and Linn Shapiro. Red Diapers: Growing Up in the Communist Left. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1998.

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Lyons, Paul. Philadelphia Communists, 1936-1956. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982.

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McGeever, Brendan, and Satnam Virdee. “Antisemitism and Socialist Strategy in Europe, 1880–1917: An Introduction.” Patterns of Prejudice 51, no. 3–4 (2017): 221–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2017.1349606.

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Medem, Vladimir. The Life and Soul of a Legendary Jewish Socialist: The Memoirs of Vladimir Medem. New York: Ktav, 1979. http://books.discogs.com/book/556589-the-life-and-soul-of-a-legendary-jewish-socialist-the-memoirs-of-vladimir-medem.

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Mokhtefi, Elaine. Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers. Brooklyn: Verso Press, 2018.

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Mokhtefi, Mokhtar. I Was a French Muslim: Memories of an Algerian Freedom Fighter. Translated by Elaine Mokhtefi. New York: Other Press, 2021.

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Nepon, Ezra Berkley. Justice, Justice Shall You Pursue: A History of New Jewish Agenda. Philadelphia: Thread Makes Blanket Press, 2012.
 

Rosenblum, April. “Offers We Couldn’t Refuse: The Decline of Actively Secular Jewish Identity in the 20th Century U.S. (Revised from the Original).” Jewish Currents, 2009.

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———. “The Ethics of the Soldiers: My Father, Myself and the Israeli Refuseniks.” Bridges, Fall 2006.

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———. “The Jewish Bund.” In The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, 8  Volume Set: 1500 to the Present, edited by Immanuel Ness. Malden, Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. https://84f2d87c-60f4-4478-87d0-6980c5e46521.filesusr.com/ugd/4dc342_4940fc456320468eb72497affe5efec8.pdf?index=true.

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Rudd, Mark. “Why Were There So Many Jews in SDS? Or, The Ordeal of Civility.” Fast Capitalism 1, no. 2 (2005). http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/1_2/rudd.html.

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Schultz, Debra L. Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement. New York: NYU Press, 2002.

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Svonkin, Stuart. Jews Against Prejudice: American Jews and the Fight for Civil Liberties. (Explores the organized Jewish community's work during peak years of U.S. anti-Communism) New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

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