The Jews Who Ate Pork ’Till the Pigs Were Called
From Feminist Food Journal
At the turn of the 20th century, Yiddish anarchists in North America threw Yom Kippur Balls: raucous parties replete with pork and cigarettes to satirize the most solemn of holy days. Looking back at these parties through the eyes of revolutionary figures like Emma Goldman, writer and organizer Jesse Roth asks what the contemporary left can learn from these ancestors’ successes — and their mistakes.