The Records of Linke Fligl

Recent Accession

The YIVO Archives is pleased to announce that we are in the process of accessioning the records of Linke Fligl. Linke Fligl was a queer Jewish chicken farm and cultural organizing project based in Millerton, NY. It was founded in 2016 and was sunset in 2022. You can learn more about Linke Fligl’s story here.

The collection is rich with records, correspondence, art, and objects, including a first for the YIVO Archives: an egg, the very first one ever laid on the farm. It also includes materials from other organizations doing complementary work, including Hazon, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, and Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, among others. The materials, all told, provide an invaluable view into the collaboration and labor involved in sustaining Linke Fligl for the time it was in operation.

The Linke Fligl papers will be of interest to anyone interested in leftist/radical politics; cultural organizing; diasporism; queer, rural life; and farming and agriculture movements through a Jewish lens. We are processing the collection in collaboration with Linke Fligl and look forward to making the collection available to the public.

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