I don't have my own opinions/ Author of WE FIGHT FASCISTS: The 43 Group and their Forgotten Battle for Post-War Britain
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We Fight Fascists is now out in paperback and available from Bookshop.org, which means that you can learn all about Jews beating up fascists whilst supporting your local independent book shop!
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Searchlight obituary of the great Jules Konopinski, the last anti-fascist to have fought with the 43 Group and the 62 Group. Written by Daniel Sonabend, historian of the 43 group. searchlightmagazine.com/2023…
I am very sad to report the passing of Jules Konopinski yesterday at the age of 93. He was the last surviving person who was a member of both the 43 Group and the 62 Group, and the last surviving of the 43 Group's great street fighters.
Jules was a lifelong committed anti-fascist stalwart, who never shied away from the fight against fascism, and who never lost his passion for opposing it. In later life he was dedicated to upholding the memory of his groups and the importance of communal defence against fascism.
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Jewish ex-servicemen and women formed the vigilante 43 Group in 1946; members including Vidal Sassoon vowed to fight post-war antisemitism
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In this range of essays, the authors look at the individuals and groups that have worked to counter antisemitism since the Dreyfus Affair polarised France in the late C19th
The book is available to purchase now at the Library and via our online shop.... tinyurl.com/5yt27ey9
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This evening!
Join us to mark the publication of a new book, Anti- Antisemitism, and the launch of the new travelling version of our Fighting Antisemitism exhibition.
Featuring speakers @daverich1, Daniel Sonabend & Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger DBE.
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I am very sorry to report the passing of Harry Kaufman who passed away on Yom Kippur at the age of 91. Harry was the youngest member of the 43 Group, he was a committed life-long anti-fascist who fought and was injured and arrested for his cause. May his memory be a blessing.
Portrait of Harry by @stuartfreedman Here is a video from the Guardian in which Harry explains how to use a rolled-up newspaper as a dangerous weapon. youtube.com/watch?v=WyV78R21…
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📙 Next week! Join us for the launch of a new book, Anti-Antisemitism: Countering Anti-Jewish Racism in Western Europe, 1890-2022, edited by the Library’s Barbara Warnock and Toby Simpson and with a foreword by Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger DBE..📙 tinyurl.com/bdzz84yd
Tickets are still available for this both in-person and online.
We are delighted to welcome historian @dansonabend to the Library for the first event in our #FightingAntisemitism series. Tomorrow eve Daniel will tell the story of the militant Jewish anti-fascist organisation the 43 Group. Join us in-person or online: bit.ly/35ymMLn
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I am very excited and honoured to be presenting a talk on the 43 Group on 11 May at @wienerlibrary as part of its series of talks on #FightingAntisemitism. Do come along. Tickets are free and available for both in-person and online. bit.ly/35ymMLn
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We are delighted to welcome historian @dansonabend to the Library for the first book talk in our #FightingAntisemitism series. On 11 May, Daniel will tell the story of the militant Jewish anti-fascist organisation the 43 Group. Join us in-person or online: bit.ly/35ymMLn
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Our next Anti-Fascist Hero to commemorate the 85th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street has been put forward by our Video Producer @JakePaceLawrie. His hero is Wendy Turner.
Follow the thread to read why he chose Wendy as his anti-fascist hero.
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To commemorate the #BattleOfCableStreet we are highlighting key figures in the fight against fascism
@dansonabend author & filmmaker, talks to @JakePaceLawrie on Ridley Road in Dalston, the epicentre of the struggle to defeat hate in post-war Britain
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I appeared on @BBCR4Sunday this morning alongside former 43 and 62 Group member Jules Konopinski to give some historic background for tonight's first episode of #RidleyRoad. The piece begins around the 23 min mark
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What a nice surprise. My portrait of Harry Kaufman, anti-fascist fighter and member of the legendary 43 Group has been shortlisted for the Royal Photographic Society's International Print Exhibition @The_RPS #IPE163. Thanks to Harry, @dansonabend and the RPS.
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Delighted that the new Swedish edition of @dansonabend’s masterful ‘We Fight Fascists’ features four of my portraits of the last of the brave members of the 43 Group. Thanks to Daniel, Bo Grieder and @soderbokhandeln.
Well this is something I never imagined happening, We Fight Fascists has been translated into Swedish! Vi Krossar Fascister is was translated by and is now available from @soderbokhandeln in Stockholm
