This summer, K. invites you to rediscover, in each of its weekly issues, a feature consisting of five articles previously published in the magazine. This week with articles by Valeria Solanstein, Danny Trom, Karl Kraus, Barbara Honigmann and Julia Christ.
Jewish Scum Manifesto
Valeria Solanstein – Published March 13, 2025
For International Women’s Rights Day, K. is publishing a text that is a departure from its usual line. A young Jewish woman sent us a manuscript that, pastiching the famous SCUM Manifesto (1967) by radical feminist activist Valerie Solanas, virulently expresses her anger at the Jewish world’s deafness to the demands for women’s emancipation. This anger is the political expression we get from bottling up what’s ready to explode.
Don’t read this if you are a man with an inflated ego.
>>> Read the article by Valeria Solanstein
Unsubmissive?
Danny Trom – Published June 15, 2022
Danny Trom revisits the unprecedented electoral agreement on the French left, which has united the Greens, Socialists and Communists under the aegis of “La France Insoumise” [Unsubmissive France], an anti-system party whose leader, Jean-Luc Melenchon, came in third place in the last presidential election. The alliance, called the Nupes, stands to win up to 200 seats in France’s parliamentary elections, the second round of which occurs this Sunday. Trom reflects on what lies behind the strange name of “France Insoumise” and the social and political imaginary that such a word carries. This is an opportunity to point out the risk of what could well have been a “submission” of the entire left to Melenchon’s “insubmission.”
>>> Read the article by Danny Trom
Masochism or emancipation? Pinkwashing, resistance and solidarity with Gaza
Karl Kraus – Published November 16, 2023
This week, our colleague Karl Kraus looks at the strange tendency of a considerable number of ultra-progressive, even revolutionary, activists to defend movements whose stated aim is to destroy them. Read about talking chickens, Queers for Palestine, lying and perfidious Jews, pinkwashing and the new concept of an old-fashioned avant-garde.
>>> Read the article by Karl Kraus
What do goyim actually talk about?
Barbara Honigmann – Published November 21, 2024
On a plane, two Jews are having a conversation. In this short story – delivered at the 2004 Koret Jewish Book Award ceremony in New York – Barbara Honigmann humorously questions what Jews have in common, and what radically sets them apart.
>>> Read the text by Barbara Honigmann
Plugging the hole – On “The Appointment” by Katharina Volckmer
Julia Christ – Published November 10, 2021
The Appointment, the first novel by Katharina Volckmer, a German writer exiled in London, has dazzled critics and English-speaking audiences[1]. The book, which tells the story of a woman’s attempt to change her sex, questions the possibility of such a gesture, not in the absolute, but for the German woman who is performing it. Resolutely provocative, mixing sexual fantasies about Hitler and sharp insights into our contemporary society. Julia Christ gives us her reading of Katharina Volckmer’s provocative and satirical parable, over which the shadow of Philip Roth, Woody Allen and Thomas Bernhardt hovers.
>>> Read the article by Julia Christ
