{"product_id":"here-where-we-live-is-our-country-the-story-of-the-jewish-bund","title":"Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Molly Crabapple\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne World\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4\/7\/2026, hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: \u003cspan id=\"pd-title\" class=\"productDetailTitle\"\u003e9780593229453\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"productDetailTitle\"\u003e\u003cb\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\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"productDetailTitle\"\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. \u003ci\u003eItka the Bundist, Breaking Windows\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"productDetailTitle\"\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.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"productDetailTitle\"\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?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"productDetailTitle\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eHere Where We Live Is Our Country \u003c\/i\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\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"productDetailTitle\"\u003eReviews:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"productDetailTitle\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"productDetailTitle\"\u003e\"Vast in scope, elegiac in prose, \u003ci\u003eHere Where We Live Is Our Country\u003c\/i\u003e brings to life the profound humanity of those who stood up to the blood-soaked ethnonationalisms that led to so many of the twentieth century's storied horrors. Molly Crabapple, with this great work, adds to her growing legacy as a unique American genius.\" -- Jason Stanley, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/how-fascism-works-pb\" title=\"How Fascism Works\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow Fascism Works\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"productDetailTitle\"\u003e\"Molly Crabapple's words are as glorious as her colors, her writing as vivid as her painting. Reading her \u003ci\u003eHere Where We Live Is Our Country\u003c\/i\u003e today, with Gaza in ruins and the rest of the world seemingly on the road to ruin, is revelatory, a reminder that in even in the most dehumanizing of times a loving humanity might endure, even if only fleetingly.\" -- Greg Grandin, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eThe End of the Myth \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/empires-workshop-latin-america-the-united-states-and-the-making-of-an-imperial-republic\" title=\"Empire's Workshop\"\u003eEmpire's Workshop\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"productDetailTitle\"\u003e\"Writing with lyricism and great depth of feeling, Crabapple movingly presents the principled Bund, decimated by the Holocaust and sidelined postwar by Soviet socialism on one side and Zionism on the other.... Readers will be rapt.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"productDetailTitle\"\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"productDetailTitle\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMolly Crabapple \u003c\/b\u003eis an artist and writer based in New York. She is the author of two books, \u003ci\u003eDrawing Blood\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBrothers of the Gun \u003c\/i\u003e(with Marwan Hisham), which was longlisted for a National Book Award. She was a 2020 New America Fellow and her reportage is the winner of the Bernhard Labor Journalism Award, and has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003eand elsewhere. Her animations have won two Emmys and an Edward R. Murrow Award. Her art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52061089726747,"sku":"Here Where We Live Is Our","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/files\/91y8tCDap6L._SL1500.jpg?v=1776201370","url":"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-the-story-of-the-jewish-bund","provider":"Burning Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}