\u201cMolly Crabapple beckons readers through a portal to an irresistible, lost world, one bound together by passion, solidarity, and a burning hunger for justice.\u201d\u2014Naomi Klein,\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/i>bestselling author of\u00a0No Logo<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Doppelganger<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Sam Rothbort created \u201cmemory paintings\u201d with the hope of resurrecting the vanished world of his shtetl childhood. Decades later, his great-granddaughter, the award-winning artist Molly Crabapple, discovered these paintings and one stood out: a girl, her dress the color of sky, hurling a rock through a cottage window.\u00a0Itka the Bundist, Breaking Windows<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Itka is how Crabapple met the Jewish Labor Bund. Once the most influential Jewish political force in eastern Europe, the Bund was secular, socialist, and uncompromisingly anti-Zionist. The Bundists fought for dignity and equality, not in an imagined homeland in Palestine but \u201chere where we live.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the first popular history of the Bund, Crabapple re-creates their extraordinary world through dramatic portraits of insurgent poets and antireligious rebels, clandestine revolutionaries and lovers on the barricades. The Bundists live deeply within this violent, volatile, and somehow hopeful period, as their stories interweave with the Russian Revolution and the Holocaust. The Bund\u2019s rise and fall raises the vital question: What can we learn from a movement that, for all its toughness, imagination, and moral clarity, was largely destroyed?<\/p>\n
Here Where We Live Is Our Country\u00a0<\/i>reanimates a band of idealists who broadened our global political imagination. As we once again contend with nationalism, repression, and the struggle for belonging, the Bund\u2019s remarkable story and message\u2014that liberation, dignity, and solidarity must begin where we stand\u2014reaches across time as a guide to our own urgent moment.<\/p>\n
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