Here Where We Live Is Our Country
| Author | Molly Crabapple |
|---|---|
| Genre | non-fiction |
| Published | 2026 (One World/Random House) |
| Publication date | April 7, 2026 |
| ISBN | 9780593229453 |
Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund is a 2026 book by the American artist and independent scholar Molly Crabapple in which she narrates the history of The General Jewish Labour Bund, an anti-Zionist[1] socialist party of the Eastern European Jewish working class[1] founded by revolutionaries in Vilna in the Russian Empire in 1897.[1][2][3][4] Crabapple describes the story of The Bund in her introduction as "a story of our own times, a blueprint for survival, a cautionary tale of death, and a philosophy that might yet save us."[3]
Background
Previous work on the subject from Crabapple includes her October 2018 piece "My Great-Grandfather the Bundist" published in the The New York Review of Books,[5] her December 2018 piece "The War on Memory: Learning from the Jewish Labor Bund" in The Funambulist,[6] and remarks delivered at the Symposium on the Jewish Left 2025.[7]
Crabapple's narrative of the Bund contains references to her great-grandfather, the artist and Bundist Samuel Rothbort.[2]
References
- 1 2 3 Erlich, Mark (June 2026). "Resurrecting the Bund". Dissent. 73 (2): 118–122. doi:10.1353/dss.2026.a990879. ISSN 1946-0910.
- 1 2 Hochschild, Adam (May 28, 2026). "A Dream of a Socialist Commonwealth". New York Review of Books.
- 1 2 Shor, Fran (August 8, 2026). "A Movement's Inspiration and Legacy". Solidarity. Retrieved August 24, 2026.
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- Additional sources:
- "Not all Jews believed their future lay in Israel". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved August 24, 2026.
- Casper, Michael. "Marxism in Yiddish: The Jewish workers' movement in Eastern Europe". Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved August 24, 2026.
- "Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund by Molly Crabapple". Publishers Weekly. February 9, 2026. Retrieved August 24, 2026.
- Roberts, Zach D. (March 16, 2026). "How Movements Survive". Progressive.org. Retrieved August 24, 2026.
- Strasser, Max (April 6, 2026). "What Does Judaism Look Like Without Zionism?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 24, 2026.
- McMurtrie, John (April 2, 2026). "Review: Here Where We Live is Our Country". Kirkus Reviews.
- ↑ Crabapple, Molly (October 6, 2018). "My Great-Grandfather the Bundist". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved August 24, 2026.
- ↑ "The War on Memory: Learning from the Jewish Labor Bund". THE FUNAMBULIST MAGAZINE. December 17, 2024. Retrieved August 24, 2026.
- ↑ Crabapple, Molly (August 2025). "Here where we live is our country: The story of the Jewish Labor Bund". Critical Research on Religion. 13 (2): 272–278. doi:10.1177/20503032251344336. ISSN 2050-3032.