Ami Lev Weintraub joins us for the launch of his new book, To the Ghosts Who Are Still Living. Joined by author Shane Burley, they'll explore the generational trauma and resiliency that underscores our struggle to survive.

In To the Ghosts Who Are Still Living, Weintraub guides us on a journey to meet the ghosts of his Jewish ancestors—a people whose struggles and stories sometimes whisper and sometimes scream to be shared. Ami examines challenging questions of heartbreak, memory, restitution, and self-discovery. From Eastern Europe to the Tree of Life shooting, these stories illuminate the historical and contemporary impact of fascism on Jewish communities while honoring the ongoing legacy of Jewish resistance. 

Ami Weintraub (he/they) is a Jewish anarchist writer and Rabbinic student. He has contributed to a number of publications including Tikkun, Jewish Currents, and New Jewish Voices. Ami is the founder and former director of Ratzon: Center for Healing and Resistance, a Jewish, queer anarchist community center in Pittsburgh and is studying to become a Rabbi in the Aleph Rabbinic Ordination Program. Ami’s work and community organizing focus on building a world without domination where people can freely connect to their cultures, lands, and bodies. They call the hills of Pittsburgh, PA and creeks of Silver Spring, MD home.

Shane Burley is an author based in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse (AK Press, 2021) and Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It (AK Press, 2017), the editor of No Pasaran: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis (AK Press, 2022), and has appeared in a number of other anthologies and journals. His work has been featured in places such as NBC News, Al Jazeera, The Baffler, The Independent, Jacobin, The Daily Beast, Bandcamp Daily, Jewish Currents, Haaretz, and Full Stop.