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Adam Kossoff, The Anarchist Rabbi (2014), 44 minutes.
Adam Kossoff marvellous film tells the story of Rudolf Rocker's London years, his involvement in the Jewish anarchist movement and the development of anarchist communism and anarcho-syndicalism. Steven Berkoff speaks as the narrator, taking us through Rocker's activities. We follow Rocker through his involvement in labour agitation - notably the 1912 Jewish tailors' strike - his internment during the war and his enthusiasm for the Russian Revolution. We see Dunstan Dwellings, his house in Stepney Green, and are given a sense of bonds that held his family together as well as a flavour of his anarchism: the film begins and ends with his belief that anarchism has no final goal.
Seamlessly interwoven with this narrative is the story of Jewish workers, glori- ously captured by the sound of a hand-operated sewing machine and an infectious resistance song Ale Gasn,...