Curated playlist
Jewish socialists
- Saul BellowSaul Bellow learned he had entered the U.S. illegally as a child when he tried to enlist. He became a citizen in 1941.
- Bernie SandersBernie Sanders delivered a speech in the United States Senate on the 10th of December 2010 that lasted 8 hours and 34 minutes. His target was a tax bill that would extend the Bush-era rates, which he argued favored the wealthiest…
- Karl MarxKarl Marx left an estate valued at just 250 pounds when he died in 1883. He died stateless in London at 64.
- David Ben-GurionDavid Ben-Gurion agreed to the Irgun's plan to bomb the King David Hotel in 1946. Ninety-one people died.
- Martin BuberDo you meet another person as a full human being, or as an object? Martin Buber's I and Thou asks this.
- Walter BenjaminWalter Benjamin reached the Catalan border town of Portbou on the 25th of September 1940, a German-Jewish philosopher and critic with almost nothing published that the wider world had noticed. He had crossed the French-Spanish frontier…
- Theodor W. AdornoTheodor W. Adorno opened his first lecture of the summer semester in 1969 by inviting students to ask questions whenever they arose. A student wrote on the blackboard: "If Adorno is left in peace, capitalism will never cease." Three women…
- Rosa LuxemburgRosa Luxemburg was killed in 1919 under a socialist government.
- Erich FrommErich Fromm argued that falling in love is not love at all. His 1956 book The Art of Loving became a bestseller.
- Rudolf HilferdingRudolf Hilferding refused to escape Vichy France because he had no identity papers and would not leave illegally.
- El LissitzkyEl Lissitzky made a tank poster while dying of tuberculosis in 1941. The artist urged Soviet people to build more tanks.