“Here Where We Live is Our Country” : The Story of the Jewish Bund

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Founded in 1897 in Eastern Europe, the Bund was a socialist revolutionary group whose name, translated from Yiddish to English, is General Jewish Labor Union (“bund” is Yiddish for union). By the 1930s, Bundism in Poland, where most Ashkenazic Jews lived, had grown bigger and more politically powerful than Zionism. The group was a tireless promoter of Yiddish as the linguistic and literary underpinning of Jewish peoplehood. Bundists also fiercely opposed Zionism and a Jewish state; they believed in fighting for democracy and inclusion in the countries where Jews already lived.

Here Where We Live is Our Country, is part historical documentation, part loving family memoir, and part literary nonfiction.

Join Forward editor-in-chief Alyssa Katz and author Molly Crabapple in conversation about this acclaimed new book. Molly will be available for book sales and signing after the discussion.

You can purchase the book on the Forward‘s bookshop.org page. A small portion of the proceeds will benefit the Forward.

Read the Forward‘s interview with Molly Crabapple.

Read The New York Times‘ review of the book.

For questions, please feel free to contact the Forward team at [email protected].

This event is presented in partnership with the Center for Jewish History and the YIVO Institute.