Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 23/09/2026Sholem aleykhem khaveyrim! We're a bit late with the High Holidays, and we hope you had an easy fast if you observed. This week we present two pieces. First, Zach Moscze resumes his Bundism Today series with an essay on the "Jewish Street" and our what Jewish organizing means today. 151
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 11/09/2026Shabbat shalom, buen Shabbat, a gutn Shabbos! Shanah tovah umetukah; anyada bueno, dulse, i alegre; a freylekhn nay-yor! 0152
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 09/09/2026RoseAnn's album will be released on Bandcamp on October 23rd but you can listen to the song at the link in her essay above. 031
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 09/09/2026Sholem aleykhem khaverim Our newsletter this past week was short and centered around music. First, this past Saturday Der Spekter joined DJ Chaia at the @audium.bsky.social for her sold out shows with Arshia Fatima. We were glad to meet supporters, make new friends, & build diasporic community. 142
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 08/09/2026Its no mystery why the US's paper of record has been laundering the fascistic tendencies of Trumpism, Zionism, and now Hindutva 112427
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 21/08/2026Finally, we are bubbling with anticipation for the upcoming release of "We Traitors: Bundist Writings on Zionism, Palestine, and Socialism" by Der Spekter editor @eyshe.bsky.social and @nathantankus.bsky.social. Preorders open in the next few days, and we will make sure to remind you once again. 114047
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 21/08/2026Sholem aleykhem, khaveyrim! Der Spekter is back this week with two pieces tackling the role of memory in our movements and in the world shaped by the contest of what that memory means. Before we do, though, we have some exciting announcements. 1112
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 18/08/2026This is still behind by the paywall but readers of Der Spekter would this is something modern Bundists are keenly aware of jewishcurrents.org/back-to-the-... 1101
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 10/08/2026We're back after our July vacation* and ready to share more great Bundist work from around the world. * We didn't rest with four events on two American coasts, from a workers’ happy hour in San Francisco to two media workshops in Boston and Philadelphia, and a klezmer picnic in Brooklyn. 2110
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 15/06/2026Our Pride Bundy stickers are here and they'll be in the store soon! 072
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 15/06/2026Khaverim at the @workerscircle.bsky.social did something great! Check out this Yiddish Pride Vocabulary. Hoping to see one in Ladino too! 0125
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 15/06/2026Finally...if you're in the Bay Area this week, please join a few of our editors and Bundists at a casual happy hour in San Francisco 6.17. See the poster below And if you're going to KlexCummington, editor Miri Villerius will lead a workshop on Yiddish Op-Sec: cultural autonomy as community safety 002
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 13/06/2026Did someone say pride? Available in the Der Spekter store at derspekter.bigcartel.com soon! 050
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 09/06/2026Khaverim! One of the founding editors of Der Spekter is coming through San Francisco next week so we decided to make a thing of it with the Golden State Bund. Please join us for a little Jewish Workers happy hour at El Rio next Wednesday 6/17 at 6pm 043
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 31/05/2026yet the haavara agreement also undermined the BDS campaign to extract a price during the fascists' early years. nobody knew quite what was coming at that point but the zionists were more than willing to sacrifice poor jews who couldn't leave for the richer ones who could. they even got souvenirs 330
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 26/05/2026Check it out! Our 2nd Anniversary edition is available at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social. swing by to look inside and bring a copy home. 010
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 19/05/2026Are you a Der Spekter reader in or going to Edinburgh? Friend of the mag Chaia (chaialeh.bandcamp.com) will be performing with Klezmer legend Michael Alpert and we would LOVE your review of it. Ticket link: www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Edi... 010
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 18/05/2026In the super Jewy Boston enclave of Brookline? Great news, we're now at Brookline Booksmith! Tell all your khaveyrim 131
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 17/05/2026Der Spekter and Essentials of Bundism are now available at Wooden Shoe Books in Philly! 2141
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 12/05/2026We've been offered an opportunity to review a interesting documentary and would love to hear from folks who might be interested in reviewing the film and interviewing the director. Hit us in the DMs or email editors@derspekter.org 032
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 01/05/2026Front row with Molly Crabapple at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social San Francisco 1425
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 30/04/2026I wonder if any of the properties at this event sent to @forward.com newsletter subscribers are in the occupied territories 123
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 29/04/2026Our fulfilment master @misoshnik.bsky.social is getting your orders out! 071
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 22/04/2026This is a very good thread. As we wrote in our review of @mollycrabapple.bsky.social's book at www.derspekter.org/here-where-w... 060
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 20/04/2026Let the record show that Jean Ralphio is just an incarnation of Leon Trotsky 161
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 17/04/2026Sholem aleykhem khaverim! Two great pieces for you this week in addition to the opening of pre-orders for our 2nd anniversary issue and Henryk Erlich's "Essentials of Bundism," translated for the first time by our New York Bund khaverim. Buy both in our store at derspekter.bigcartel.com 221
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 13/04/2026Khaverim! The 2nd Anniversary Edition of our print magazine is finalized and will soon be available for purchase. Here's a little preview of our cover, done by the amazing Ryan Lee Fliegelman, to get you excited. Keep an eye out for a shop link soon! 096
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 08/04/2026Also, we are hosting an online event for our 2-year anniversary on Wednesday, April 15th at 8pm EST! This event is free, with a suggested donation of $5 to support Der Spekter's continued operations. Register at t.ly/otbGq 154
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 04/04/2026We are also had at work on the 2nd Anniversary Edition of our print magazine, so watch this space! Here's a tiny preview: 040
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 26/03/2026Love to hear that @jewishcurrents.bsky.social will be sending its sustaining members a copy of @mollycrabapple.bsky.social's forthcoming book. We're reading it now and look forward to sharing a review of it with our readers. Stay tuned!! 1267
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 24/03/2026What's Lebensraum in Hebrew? What's the NYT phrase for laundering war crimes? 0142
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 12/02/2026Our fates are bound together. Our fight against the imperialist stranglehold is from Gaza to Cuba is one in the same. So it should be no surprise that a Jewish organizer who was brutalized by Israel for his efforts to help the people of Gaza is doing this on behalf of the people of Cuba. 052
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 27/01/2026In further evidence of the moral bankruptcy and desiccated humanity of institutional Judaism, here we have a Rabbi making it clear that "Never Again" is "Never Again for Me But to Hell With You." He never learned that "to be a Jew means always being with the oppressed, never with the oppressors.” 0102
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 12/01/2026Sholem aleykhem khaverim Our latest newsletter spans the the present, the imagination, and the past. First we share Minnesota-based journalist Miri Villerius (insta/@milkyjammers) dispatch from occupied Minneapolis in an exclusive introduction at www.derspekter.org/email/f34657... 130
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 12/01/2026Senator Wiener has refused to meet with anti-Zionist Jewish groups who have been under no illusion about the Israel's genocidal project and this panicked video cannot erase the damage he has caused and it a far cry from the accountability that's due. 000
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 12/01/2026Earlier today @scottwiener.bsky.social released this video in response to the outrage he evoked by refusing to acknowledge Israel's genocide in Gaza. This is a weak attempt to evade responsibility for his words and actions smearing anti-genocide protesters as antisemites and terrorist sympathizers. 140
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 08/01/2026Jewish Congressional candidate @scottwiener.bsky.social refused to answer if Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza then proceeded to offer excuses for his non-answer @ www.instagram.com/p/DTQ_pn8Dj8U. Sen Wiener has refused to face Jewish anti-Zionists on this issue and we challenge him to do so. 0125
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 31/12/2025Keep following us here or at Instagram at @der.spekter (www.instagram.com/der.spekter). Subscribe at derspekter.org and please consider a donation to help keep this going at www.derspekter.org#/portal/supp... 031
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 31/12/2025Thanks to everyone who has read, written, donated, reached out, and made Der Spekter what it is today. We couldn't have done it without you, and we're only going to continue to grow from here. We hope you'll join us. 112
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 31/12/2025It's been a big year for Der Spekter! We've published 45 pieces across a variety of subjects, expanded our readership on all platforms, hosted a meetup in New York City, and much more. Check out our highlights for the year, learn more about us, and consider contributing in 2026! 185
Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 16/12/2025Happy Hanukkah from all of us here at Der Spekter! We wish you and your loved ones peace, joy, love, and א ליכטיגן חנוכה (a light-filled Hanukkah!) We are immensely grateful for the community we've built in our pages and look forward to many more beautiful celebrations together. 073
![Reggae singer Peter Tosh sang, “I’m a man of the past, living in the present, and walking in the future.” Crabapple’s history helps ground the Jewish left in a past that has been hidden from many of us and offers the raw material for a way forward. The working class Jewish culture of the Pale may no longer exist, but we continue to hear echoes of its milieu. Today’s neo-Bundists are working to rebuild it amidst a radically different landscape where Western Jews are often at least comfortably middle class, where Ashkenazim are beneficiaries of provisional whiteness, and where there exists a Jewish nation-state run by the political heirs of a “fascist clown” (Jabotinsky) whose “soldiers are nothing more than tragicomic caricature of Hitler’s SA....the same beasts [with] some muscle strength, some territory, and a political opportunity.” Neo-Bundists are doing so by learning from the victories and defeats of the past. They are building the future that we will walk in.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc3wbdh2vs3h7qhqoyo644ug/bafkreicbkx66omic4uy6xibdunflvvkb7p6nhfkc2r5slebb7sxqog7bk4)
![YIDDISH PRIDE VOCABULARY
lezbish/lezbianke לעזביש/לעזביאַנקע | lesbian (adj/n)
gey/homoseksualist גיי/האָמאָסעקסואַליסט | gay (adj/n)
biseksuel/biseksualist[ke] ביסעקסועל/ביסעקסואַליסט [קע] | bisexual (adj/n)
transminik/der transman/di transfroy ראַנסמיניק/דער טראַנסמאַן/די
טראַנספרוי | transgender(adj), Trans Man, Trans woman
kvir קוויר | queer (adj/n)
tsvishnminik צווישנמיניק | intersex (adj/n)
onseksuel/onseksualist[ke] אָנסעקסועל/אָנסעקסואַליסט [קע] | asexual (adj/n)
panseksuel/ panseksualist(ke) פאַנסעקסועל/פאַנסעקסואַליסט[קע] | pansexual (adj/n)
Compiled by Yasha Giner, Yiddish Culture and Social Justice Organizer
Lesbian (adj./n.)
Gay (adj./n.)
Bisexual (adj./n.)
Transgender (adj.), Trans
Man, Trans Woman
Queer (adj.)
Intersex (adj.)
Asexual (adj./n.)
Pansexual (adj./n.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc3wbdh2vs3h7qhqoyo644ug/bafkreihuzzhu4773wywrbaruolccfsemx5nz2nbarzst4mn3tdw3ntriki)
![Reggae singer Peter Tosh sang, “I’m a man of the past, living in the present, and walking in the future.” Crabapple’s history helps ground the Jewish left in a past that has been hidden from many of us and offers the raw material for a way forward. The working class Jewish culture of the Pale may no longer exist, but we continue to hear echoes of its milieu. Today’s neo-Bundists are working to rebuild it amidst a radically different landscape where Western Jews are often at least comfortably middle class, where Ashkenazim are beneficiaries of provisional whiteness, and where there exists a Jewish nation-state run by the political heirs of a “fascist clown” (Jabotinsky) whose “soldiers are nothing more than tragicomic caricature of Hitler’s SA....the same beasts [with] some muscle strength, some territory, and a political opportunity.” Neo-Bundists are doing so by learning from the victories and defeats of the past. They are building the future that we will walk in.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc3wbdh2vs3h7qhqoyo644ug/bafkreidsp6lwsbo4kognvepzwk6gukf3exk62z5s22ab2aewcb3b4cnpte)
