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What if there was a Jewish political movement that fought for liberation without seeking a state? What if diaspora wasn’t exile, but home? Artist, writer and activist Molly Crabapple offers a course which explores the Bund (short for the General Jewish Labour Bund). Founded in 1897 in Vilna (in what was then the Russian Empire, and which is now Vilnius in Lithuania), the Bund reached its height in Poland between the two world wars. It was a sometimes-clandestine political party built on humane, socialist and secular principles, and it was defiantly, proudly Jewish. Bundists fought against the Tsarist regime, organised resistance to violent pogroms, championed the Yiddish language as a vehicle of Jewish culture and dignity, and built vast networks of schools, theatres, newspapers, sports clubs and mutual aid societies. They believed that Jews could and should fight for liberation exactly where they were, not by establishing a distant homeland, but by struggling for justice alongside their neighbours. The Bund raised generations of young people on radical ideals of working-class solidarity and what they called do’ikayt – “hereness”. This principle held that Jews had the right to live in freedom and dignity wherever they stood, and that they should never seek to solve their problems through the dispossession of others. Many of these Bundist youth would go on to help lead the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the Nazis in 1943. Though the Bund was largely destroyed by Nazi Germany and suppressed by the Soviet Union, its absence from contemporary consciousness has another cause: the movement’s principled opposition to Zionism. Because Bundists rejected the idea of a Jewish state in Palestine, their story has been largely written out of mainstream Jewish history. This very interesting course presented by Equator, magazine of politics, culture and art, begins on the 7th of March 2026.

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For those who can read the landscape

2026-2027 COOP study group in partnership with De Appel Amsterdam ~ Tutor team: Noor Abuarafeh & Marina Christodoulidou

Learning by Heart

2026-2027 COOP study group in partnership with If I Can't Dance I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution ~ Tutor team: Frédérique Bergholtz & Angelo Custodio & Snejanka Mihaylova

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Amit S.Rai's 2026-2027 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory

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2026-2027 COOP study group in partnership with Hosting Lands ~ Tutor team: Aziza Harmel & Harun Morrison

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2026-2027 COOP study group in partnership with Neringa Forest Architecture ~ Tutor team: Egija Inzule & Jurga Daubaraitė & Jonas Žukauskas

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Sarah Lewis-Cappillari's 2026-2027 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory

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Mapping Totality Part ll

Ghalya Saadawi's 2026-2027 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory

Epistemic Disobedience

Sladja Blazan's 2026-2027 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory

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APRiCot Garden brings together research trajectories by alumni and practitioners from the wider DAI community. This second, special edition, 'If Not Here, Then Where?, presents talks, conversations, lecture-performances, exhibition (till 18 Oct), agitational workshop, book launch 'A Cut Through the Screen: Struggles' Reverberations in Cinema' and an experiment with the dance floor as curatorial space and place of study.

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2026-2027 COOP study group in partnership with SAVVY Contemporary ~ Tutor team: Daniellis Hernandez Calderon & Raisa Galofre

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2026-2027 COOP study group in partnership with ARCHIVE ENSEMBLE ~ Tutor team: Chiara Figone & Jihan El Tahri

Scritti Politti II

Grant Watson's 2026-2027 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory

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Hypatia Vourloumis' 2026-2027 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory