Name: Mitchell Abidor
I'm responsible for over 1,000 translations on MIA from French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Esperanto, as well as a smattering of transcriptions of English articles. The following is a list of my books, with the dates given either the actual or the scheduled publication date as of 2015.
- The Great Anger: French Ultra-Revolutionary Writing from the Atheist Priest to the Bonnot Gang (MIA Publications, 2009)
- Communards: The Paris Commune of 1871 as told by Those Who Fought for It (MIA Publications, 2010)
- Selected Correspondence of Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Kilmog Press, 2015)
- Anarchists Never Surrender: Essays, Polemics, and Correspondence on Anarchism by Victor Serge (2015, PM Press)
- A Socialist History of the French Revolution by Jean Jaurès (Pluto Press, 2015)
- Voices of the Paris Commune (PM Press, 2015)
- A Raskolnikoff by Emmanuel Bove (Red Dust Press, 2015. Winner of a Hemingway Grant from the French Cultural Service)
- Death to Bourgeois Society: The Propagandists of the Deed (PM Press, 2016)
- Selected Poetry of Benjamin Fondane (contributor, NYRB, 2016)
- The Permanent Guillotine: Writings of the Sans Culottes (PM Press 2016)
- For a Libertarian Communism by Daniel Guérin (PM Press, 2016)
- Auguste Blanqui: An Anthology (contributor, Verso, 2017)
- Down With the Law: the French Individualist Anarchists (PM Press 2017)
- Notebooks by Victor Serge (NYRB, 2018)
- May ‘68 in France: An oral History (Pluto Press, 2018)
- Sylvain Maréchal: A Communist Atheist During the French Revolution by Maurice Dommanget (Brill/Historical Materialism Series, 2018)
I write and blog for Jewish Currents magazine, the last of the left-wing Jewish journals, and my posts can be found here:
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I live in a decidedly un-hip part of Brooklyn – where I was born and grew up – with my wife, the artist Joan Levinson.