Levka
@LevZadov@kolektiva.social
Lev Zadov is not my real name. I expropriated it from a dead man. He wasn’t using it. It wasn’t his real name, anyway. It was his dead name. Dead names aren’t real. In real life he went by Zinkovsky. I’m not particular about my own pronouns. We’re all on the same side of the Class War. "He/him/they" works. I also respond to "yo," "soup’s on," and "freeze motherfucker!" I call other people by whatever pronouns and/or aliases that they say they want to be called by. It’s only polite.
kolektiva.social
#JimCrow #ScottsboroBoys #Yiddish #history
"A Yiddish theater troupe condemned U.S. racism — then the Nazis came
The 1935 Yiddish play ‘Mississippi,’ inspired by the Scottsboro Boys, is available to English readers for the first time.
In 1935, the experimental theater group Yung Teatr invited audiences in Warsaw to a new play that was virtually all in Yiddish but wasn’t about Europe or Jews. It was a modified retelling of the plight of the Scottsboro Boys, nine Black teenagers who were falsely accused of raping two white women in Tennessee in 1931. While the case was being retried in the United States for the second time, the three-act play Mississippi exposed Polish Jews to the injustice."
https://forward.com/culture/theater/842006/a-yiddish-theater-troupe-condemned-u-s-racism-then-the-nazis-came/
