Mapping Diasporism: Documenting TransnationalEngagement of Jewish non-Zionist Communities in the US and UK

这个项目考察了激进想象在犹太非/反犹太复国主义社区的实践。越来越多的犹太人通过培养没有犹太复国主义的犹太教来实践自决。这些犹太人中的许多人声称“流散主义”是一种政治身份。这种散居的概念，不像传统模式规定的是一个与家园有关的人（Safran 1991），它描述了一个在民族国家和边界规范之外的社区（Hall 1995, 207），一个反主流文化的空间（Gilroy 1993），其居民经历了意识的多样性（Du Bois 1903）。Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz（2007）与研究黑人激进传统的学者一起思考，创造了“流散主义”一词，将其定义为对团结的政治承诺和独立于民族家园的犹太人身份。结合档案、民族志和参与性研究方法，本计划探讨为何成员会被散居侨民作为一种政治身份所吸引，以及他们认为这会产生哪些可能性。这项研究特别关注在一个由种族资本主义和持续的殖民主义构成的世界中建立乌托邦社区所固有的紧张关系（Grosfuegel 2002）。为了更好地将这一当代运动置于背景中，并对运动起源的神话进行质疑，该项目使用了20世纪初和19世纪后期的档案文件。这些文件主要用意第绪语写成，展示了在犹太制度空间普遍支持犹太复国主义之前的另一种未来。此外，该项目通过参与性观察、半结构化访谈和照片语音参与性研究过程，考察了从犹太社区农场到意第绪语歌唱静修的当代运动空间。

This project examines the praxis of radical imaginaries in Jewish non/anti-Zionist communities. There is a growing movement of Jewish people practicing self-determination by cultivating Judaism without Zionism. Many of these Jewish people claim 'diasporism' as a political identity. This conceptualization of diaspora, unlike traditional models that stipulate a people relating to a homeland (Safran 1991), describes a community outside the norms of nation-states and borders (Hall 1995, 207), a space of counterculture (Gilroy 1993) whose inhabitants experience a multiplicity of consciousness (Du Bois 1903). Thinking with scholars of the Black Radical Tradition, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz (2007) coined the term 'diasporism', defining it by a political commitment to solidarity and a Jewish identity independent of a national homeland.Combining archival, ethnographic, and participatory research methods this project asks why members are drawn to diaspora as a political identity and what possibilities they believe it engenders. This research attends particularly to the tensions inherent in building utopic communities in a world structured by racial capitalism and ongoing coloniality (Grosfuegel 2002). In order to better contextualize this contemporary movement and to interrogate movement myths of provenance, this project uses archival documents from the early 20th and late 19th century. These documents, primarily written in Yiddish, showcase an alternative futurity present before the consensus of support for Zionism predominated in Jewish institutional space. In addition, this project examines contemporary movement spaces from Jewish community farms to Yiddish singing retreats through participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and a photo-voice participatory research process.