Micah's research practice explores how communities, states, and artists craft and deploy Jewish folklore across the diaspora. Drawing on oral history, decolonial psychoanalysis, and the Black radical tradition, they explore how archival absences produce spaces for both reactionary statecraft and fugitive imagination. They hold a BA in History and Urban Studies from Bowdoin College, where they researched diasporic placemaking at three Jewish housing cooperatives in the Bronx. As a Fulbright Scholar based in Morocco, they studied the memory of Muslim-Jewish entanglements in the city of Essaouira. More recently, they have been facilitating a Yiddishist storytelling group calledZamler Collective to fashion new and old ways of engaging with ancestry, assimilation, and participatory archiving.
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Archivist
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Folklore
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