Angry Winds: Jewish Leftists and the Challenge of Palestine, 1929 with Amelia Glaser

 In this talk, Amelia Glaser discussed how the events of the summer of 1929, a week of violence in Mandate Palestine left hundreds of Jews and Arabs dead and many more wounded, divided the world-wide Jewish Left into those who sympathized with the Arabs and those who condemned the violence as a new manifestation of the east European anti-Jewish pogrom. These events echoed in the transnational community of Yiddish poets. Amelia Glaser analysed how poetry written in support of each side. The Yiddish poetry devoted to the clashes in Palestine a century ago help to illuminate how complex ideologies have long defined identity and community.