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Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund
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Molly Crabapple's Here Where We Live Is Our Country tells the story of the General Jewish Labour Bund, a secular socialist, anti‑Zionist Jewish movement founded in 1897.
Drawing on archival research, Yiddish sources, memoirs, and oral histories, Crabapple traces the Bund's activism from Tsarist Russia through the Polish interwar period and the Warsaw Ghetto.
The book emphasizes the movement's commitment to Yiddish culture, worker organizing, armed self‑defense, and internationalist socialism, while exploring its conflicts with Zionism and Bolshevism.
Crabapple combines narrative history with personal storytelling and illustrations to make the Bund's ideas and people vivid for contemporary readers.
The work argues that the Bund's politics remain relevant for leftist Jews today, offering an alternative to ethno‑nationalist responses to anti‑Jewish oppression.
Drawing on archival research, Yiddish sources, memoirs, and oral histories, Crabapple traces the Bund's activism from Tsarist Russia through the Polish interwar period and the Warsaw Ghetto.
The book emphasizes the movement's commitment to Yiddish culture, worker organizing, armed self‑defense, and internationalist socialism, while exploring its conflicts with Zionism and Bolshevism.
Crabapple combines narrative history with personal storytelling and illustrations to make the Bund's ideas and people vivid for contemporary readers.
The work argues that the Bund's politics remain relevant for leftist Jews today, offering an alternative to ethno‑nationalist responses to anti‑Jewish oppression.
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Mentioned by Sam Adler‑Bell as the book under discussion and praised as a corrective to Zionist‑centered 20th‑century Jewish histories.
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The Bund: Fighting Fascism, Fighting Zionism (w/ Molly Crabapple)
