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Philly’s forgotten history as a hub of anarchism with a thriving radical Yiddish press

  • Written by Geoffrey Baym, Professor of Media Studies and Production, Temple University
imageThe first edition of Bread and Freedom came out on Nov. 11, 1906.From the collection of the National Library of Israel, courtesy of Broyt un Frayheyt (Bread and Freedom)

On a late summer day in 1906, a small group of newly arrived Jewish immigrants in Philadelphia took a streetcar across town to Fairmount Park. Several miles from the cramped row...

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