![]() ![]() ![]() “Not the nation state not religious worship not the deepest grief of a people marked by hatred. “What do I mean by home?” she asked in her book, “ The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism “ (2007). In contrast to the Zionist insistence that Israel is the Jewish homeland, diasporism, for her, involved an assertion of the richness of Jewish identity and culture wherever Jews live. Among her most galvanizing ideas was what she called “radical diasporism,” an update of the Jewish Labor Bund’s notion of doykayt (“hereness”). She was 73 years old.Īs an eloquent and incisive poet and essayist, Melanie played a pivotal role in the women’s movement, and the movements for LGBT rights, against racism and anti-Semitism, and for Palestinian rights. Writer, scholar, and activist Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz died last month, on July 10, after a long battle with Parkinson’s. ![]()
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