From the Archives

In this 1993 interview, Leslie Lutsky talks with Les Tager, a founding member of the Toronto-based Jewish Feminist Anti-Fascist League (JFAFL). To skip the part of the show where Sam and David talk about unrelated things, jump straight to 8:03!

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From the Archives: Jewish Feminist Anti-Fascist League (Jewish Digest, 1993)

In this 2004 recording, Leslie Lutsky interviews Ella Shohat, internationally renowned Mizrahi academic, and Professor of Cultural Studies at NYU. They speak about what led Iraqi Jews to leave for Palestine, how asserting Arab-Jewish identity has become politicized, and what it was like growing up as a Mizrahi Jew in Israel.

From the Archives: Ella Shohat (Jewish Digest, 2004)

We were in Toronto last week for the 84th anniversary of the Christie Pits Riot, a piece of Jewish anti-fascist history that felt more significant this year. We decided to share this series of short interviews, originally conducted by Radio 613, which includes a conversation with Lionel Mernick, a Jewish man who was at the riot in 1933.

From The Archives: The Christie Pits Riot (Radio 613, 2008)

Happy Purim! We wanted to share this excerpt from a 1991 episode of Jewish Digest, set at an anarchist Purim party in occupied Tio'tia:ke (Montréal). Thanks to the Canadian Jewish Archives for their help digitizing the original cassette.

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From the Archives: Anarchist Purim Party (Jewish Digest, 1991)

Treyf is an anarchist Jewish podcast recorded in occupied Tio'tia:ke (Montreal), Kanien’kehá:ka territory. The show features discussions about radical leftist politics and history, highlighting perspectives often excluded from mainstream Jewish spaces.