The Yiddish term “doykayt” has started to reappear in some progressive Jewish circles. It means “here-ness” and was coined by the Jewish Labor Bund, which was politically and culturally influential […]
Elaine Sneierson Leeder
Elaine Sneierson Leeder, MSW, MPH and Ph.D. is a board member of the Northern California Workers Circle. She helped found the Jewish studies program and the Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Grove at Sonoma State University, where she is a dean emerita and professor emerita. She is also a member of the Northern California Holocaust Story Project and Congregation Ner Shalom in Cotati.