{"product_id":"here-where-we-live-is-our-country-the-story-of-the-jewish-bund-by-molly-crabapple","title":"Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund by Molly Crabapple","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe dramatic story of the Jewish Bund—a revolutionary movement from a vanished world—and its radical vision of solidarity in an age of division.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Molly Crabapple beckons readers through a portal to an irresistible, lost world, one bound together by passion, solidarity, and a burning hunger for justice.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Naomi Klein, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ebestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNo Logo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDoppelganger\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the aftermath of the Holocaust, Sam Rothbort created “memory paintings” 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eItka the Bundist, Breaking Windows\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eItka 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 “here where we live.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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’s 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHere Where We Live Is Our Country\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ereanimates 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’s remarkable story and message—that liberation, dignity, and solidarity must begin where we stand—reaches across time as a guide to our own urgent moment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ING","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42585642139742,"sku":"9780593229453","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1025\/1057\/files\/herewherewelive.jpg?v=1774448555","url":"https:\/\/shop.yiddishbookcenter.org\/products\/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-the-story-of-the-jewish-bund-by-molly-crabapple","provider":"Yiddish Book Center Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}