Radical Village

by Jay Saper

Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School (LREI) was a hotbed of Jewish radicalism. The school’s first students were Yiddish-speaking immigrants on the Lower East Side. The school served as a haven for politically active Jewish teachers and families who faced state repression and violence. The school was a cultural center for experimental and progressive Jewish artists. The school was a community, who informed by its own experience with oppression, cultivated deep solidarity with all those working to bring about a better world.

I created a walking tour of the Greenwich Village neighborhood and wrote this accompanying zine to tell the story of the school through its connections to social movements over the past century.