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Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists — Tracing the rise, networks, and decline of Yiddish-speaking anarchists in America, this film centers on the newspaper Free Voice of Labor (Fraye Arbeter Shtime) as a hub of radical publishing and debate.
Archival material, interviews with former activists, scholars, and descendants reveal how immigrants combined labor organizing, mutual aid, theater, and print culture to fight for workers’ rights, confront antisemitism, and imagine alternative communities.
The documentary probes internal tensions over tactics and identity, and reflects on the movement’s cultural legacy in contemporary labor and Jewish memory.