S9, Ep. 40 Molly Crabapple on the Jewish Bund and Here Where We Live Is Our Country

Artist and writer Molly Crabapple joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about the Jewish Labor Bund and its socialist, secular, anti-Zionist principles. Crabapple, whose artist great-grandfather Sam Rothbort was part of the organization, discusses researching and writing her New York Times bestselling book, Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund, which chronicles the Bund’s roots, founding in 1897, and development in the 20th century. Crabapple explains the Bund’s relationship to the idea of Hereness and their belief that diaspora was home and that they belonged where they lived; the Bund’s relationship to the Russian empire and to Jewish identity; and the fate of its leaders in the Holocaust. She also reflects on how she structured and shaped the Bund’s massive history following a random encounter with a fallen book on the street. She reads from Here Where We Live Is Our Country.To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/This podcast is produced by V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell.Molly CrabappleHere Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish BundBrothers of the Gun A Memoir of the Syrian War by Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple  Drawing BloodMy Great-Grandfather the Bundist | The New York Review of BooksOthersZinky Boys Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War by Svetlana Alexievich,  translated by Andrew Bromfield  The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonU.S.A. The Complete Trilogy [The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money] by John Dos Passos  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.