{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Thin Veil with Ezra Lipp","title":"Jewish Trauma Is Not A Weapon: Julie Wolk on Reclaiming Ashkenazi Ancestry Beyond Zionism","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2414,"description":"Julie Wolk is a facilitator, strategist, and creator of Ashkenazi Ancestral Journeys, a spiritual pilgrimage and heritage program that brings Ashkenazi Jews to Poland to reconnect with ancestral lands, Jewish memory, diasporic culture, grief, and political histories that Zionist narratives often teach us to bypass.\nIn this conversation, Julie and Ezra discuss what it means to turn toward Eastern Europe not only as a site of Holocaust memory and “the dark place,” but as a place of Jewish life, culture, language, resistance, food, medicine, prayer, and song. They talk about March of the Living and the weaponization of Holocaust trauma, the Jewish Labor Bund and the concept of doikayt, the erasure of Ashkenazi culture through Zionism, and the possibility of building a Judaism rooted not in nationalism or fear, but in solidarity, memory, and accountability.At the heart of the conversation is a question Julie’s work asks with urgency: can Jewish historical trauma be metabolized rather than weaponized — softening us into empathy and “never again for anyone,” rather than hardening us into victimhood, nationalism, militarism, and the dispossession of Palestinians?Julie is also the Co-Founder, former Co-Director, and current Board President of Wilderness Torah, now Adamah-SF. Earlier in her career, she worked as an environmental and social justice organizer with USPIRG and Rainforest Action Network.\nMore about Julie Wolk\nJulie on Facebook\nLearn about Ashkenazi Ancestral Journeys\nAdditional Resources Mentioned\nMolly Crabapple -  Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of The Jewish Bund\nNaomi Klein - How Israel Has Made Trauma a Weapon of War\nThe Thin Veil / Ezra Lipp’s PatreonSupport Ezra’s Work and The Show on Patreon\nThe Thin Veil with Ezra LippThe Thin Veil on all Podcast PlatformsThe Thin Veil on Youtube\nEzra Lipp’s Siteshttps://www.instagram.com/ezralipphttps://www.ezralipp.comhttps://www.youtube.com/@Ezralipp\nThin Veil Theme Music by Magic In The...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fhBUvd45_rNnoJ7g61jw-mCpqqEbrbUP0UY24votLns/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83MDBm/OTU5ODQ3ODA4OTU0/OTU4MTcxNDM3ZGI1/N2NmNy5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}