@article{
author = "Karlović, Roman and Bojanić, Petar",
year = "2024",
abstract = "While Hermann Levin Goldschmidt didn’t read Yiddish anarchists, there
seems to have been a convergent evolution in their thinking. Goldschmidt’s looking up to Jewish lore as a source of liberating creativity is commonly encountered
in Yiddish anarchist texts. His view of action as a constant response to internal and
external challenges in the struggle for an open future is developed by Isaac Nachman Steinberg on the basis of nineteenth-century vitalism. Goldschmidt’s theory of
anarchist individualism as willed self-limiting solidarity has a compelling parallel
in Hillel Solotaroff ’s view of history. His use of impressionism and photography to
eternalize the immediacy of human actuality is akin to Rudolf Rocker’s championing
of decadent literature. In both cases, the goal of anarchism is not a dictatorship of
the former downtrodden, but a continuous and contradictory evolution of freedom
in ever-changing contexts.",
publisher = "Philosophy Documentation Center",
journal = "Philosophy Today",
title = "Goldschmidt and Yiddish Anarchism",
number = "2",
volume = "68",
pages = "415-424",
doi = "10.5840/philtoday202449531"
}