Here Where We Live Is Our Country

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Both Donna Elkurd and Danelle Kurd speak positively about Molly Crabapple's "Here Where We Live Is Our Country," a book on the Jewish Bund that Danelle has preordered and finds relevant to current events affecting American Jews. Donna highlights a striking quote from the book about belief in mankind being debased, suggesting the work grapples with themes of disillusionment and idealism that feel timely.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The dramatic story of the Jewish Bund—a revolutionary movement from a vanished world—and its radical vision of solidarity in an age of division. “Molly Crabapple beckons readers through a portal to an irresistible, lost world, one bound together by passion, solidarity, and a burning hunger for justice.”—Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author of No Logo and Doppelganger In 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. Itka the Bundist, Breaking Windows . Itka is how Crabapple met the Jewish Labor Bund.

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  Donna Elkurd👍 Recommends

  …Palestinian family history and discussion of resistance movements

  “I recently finished Molly Crabapple's book Here Where We Live is Our Country on the Jewish Bund. She quotes Jewish Bundist Levick Hodes saying that quote, belief in mankind is not popular today. In these last years we have all seen it become deeply debased, despoiled, and spat on.”

  Behind the Bastards — It Could Happen Here Weekly 234at 18:00
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  Danelle Kurd👍 Recommends

  …discussing molly crabapple's book about jewish bund history and politics

  “Her most recent book is Here Where We Live Is Our Country, The Story of the Jewish Bund. And it'll be out on April 7th. I've already preordered. I'm very excited. So I wanted to talk to Molly today, given how relevant the history she outlines in her book is to this current moment, especially for the American Jewish community.”

  Behind the Bastards — It Could Happen Here Weekly 227at 37:47
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  Naomi Klein👍 Recommends

  …book recommendation on jewish labor movement and commitment to place and community

  “I guess we've been talking around this, but my friend Molly Crabapple has an absolutely brilliant book coming out called Here Where We Live is Our Country, The Story of the Jewish Bund. And it's available for pre-order. It comes out in April. And I think it gets at what an alternative story of here-ness could be, of really committing to here, which is what the Jewish labor bund was doing before, between the wars.”

  The Ezra Klein Show — Naomi Klein on Trumpism and Our Age of ‘Unlikely Bedfellows’at 20:15

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