WBAI-NYC Upcoming Program

WBAI-FM Upcoming Program

Beyond the Pale

Fri, Mar 29, 2024 9:00 AM

DAN FISHBACK

discuss his new music, how artists are standing with Palestinians in Gaza today, against fascism, and his storied past being pushed out of institutional Jewish spaces and what we can find on the other side.

Dan Fishback is a Jewish anti-Zionist artist who has been writing and performing in New York City for two decades.

He last appeared on Beyond the Pale in 2012, discussing his musical “The Material World,” which Time Out New York called “quietly revolutionary” and “the best downtown musical in years.”

As a curator, Fishback was the founding director of La MaMa’s Squirts, downtown New York’s annual festival of inter-generational queer performance.

As a performing songwriter, he has released several albums both solo and with his band Cheese On Bread.

In 2017, the American Jewish Historical Society canceled a reading of Fishback’s play “Rubble Rubble,” citing his support of BDS. “Rubble Rubble” depicted a Jewish family violently torn apart over the politics of Zionism.

Fishback’s new album, “Ill I: Laughing with Lizards,” is a collection of songs about political violence—witnessing it, enduring it and inheriting its legacy.

Exploring themes of Jewish historical trauma and leftist political despair, the album is accompanied by an animated music video for the song “Laughing with Lizards,” in which a young anti-Zionist Jew harnesses ancestral magic to resist fascism.