Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund is a 2026 book by the American artist Molly Crabapple in which she narrates the history of The General Jewish Labour Bund, an anti-Zionist socialist party of the Eastern European Jewish working class founded by revolutionaries in Vilna in the Russian Empire in 1897. 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."
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, her December 2018 piece "The War on Memory: Learning from the Jewish Labor Bund" in The Funambulist, and remarks delivered at the Symposium on the Jewish Left 2025.
Crabapple's narrative of the Bund contains references to her great-grandfather, the artist and Bundist Samuel Rothbort.
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