Three Works by Jane Lazarre on Race & Whiteness

Sep 26, 2019 | News

Labor Journal – Review of The Communist and the Communist’s Daughter

Sep 25, 2019 | News

“Jane Lazarre’s memoir about her father is at once an intimate look into a rocky father-daughter relationship and an account of the fascinating life of a leader in the American Communist Party….the personal narratives offer a picture of the Party that cannot be...

The Forward – Review of The Communist and the Communist’s Daughter

Dec 1, 2017 | Press Releases

“The Communist and the Communist’s Daughter tells the story of a family, of the struggle between old and new homelands, and of a man trying to balance his idealism with a reality that falls short of it.” Jeff Fleischer, The Forward...

The Communist and the Communist’s Daughter

Aug 24, 2017 | Interviews

In a letter to his baby grandson, Bill Lazarre wrote that “unfortunately, despite the attempts by your grandpa and many others to present you with a better world, we were not very successful.” Born in 1902 amid the pogroms in Eastern Europe, Lazarre dedicated his life...

Where Do They Keep All The White People?

Jan 26, 2017 | Essays

I try to rise up each time the pits of Trump fears and anger draw me down. Many people speak of the tangle of old fears and new, past traumatic times bleeding into these times now, like a ruined watercolor painting — liquid stress muddying what needs above all...