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

这个项目研究了犹太非/反犹太复国主义社区中激进派的实践。有一个日益增长的运动，犹太人实行自决，培养犹太教没有犹太复国主义。这些犹太人中的许多人声称“散居”是一种政治身份。与传统模式规定的与家园相关的人不同（Safran，1991），这种散居的概念描述了一个民族国家和边界规范之外的社区（Hall，1995，207），一个反文化空间（Gilroy，1993），其居民经历了意识的多样性（Du Bois，1903）。Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz（2007）与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身份。该项目结合档案，民族志和参与性研究方法，询问为什么成员被吸引到流散作为一种政治身份，以及他们认为它产生了什么可能性。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局势（Grosfuegel 2002）。为了更好地将这场当代运动置于语境中，并询问运动起源的神话，该项目使用了20世纪初和19世纪世纪末的档案文件。这些文件主要是用意第绪语写的，展示了在犹太机构空间中支持犹太复国主义的共识占主导地位之前存在的另一种未来。此外，该项目通过参与者观察，半结构化访谈和照片-声音参与式研究过程，研究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.