Ep 391 - Molly Crabapple, Author of Best-Selling Radical Jewish History "Here Where We Live is Our Country"

About this episode

Molly Crabapple discusses her new book on the Jewish Bund and the importance of storytelling in social movements.

What do we do with the stories we're given? Do we accept them, or dig for the truth? Molly Crabapple is a visual artist, writer, and aesthetic fixture of radical social movements for the last decade-plus. Molly got her start as the house artist for New York’s most notorious nightclub. She became a journalist sketching the frontlines of Occupy Wall Street, before covering, with words and art, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Lebanese snipers, Guantanamo Bay, the US-Mexican border, Pennsylvania prisoners, New York cabbies, Greek refugee camps, and the ravages of hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. We dig in with her about her new best-selling book Here Where We Live is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish 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.” Molly shares how this story lives in her lineage, the unsexy but beautiful work of a decade in the archives, and what this story teaches us about the fraught but necessary work of building coalition as we fight for a better world…

People in this episode

Hosts: Damon Williams, Daniel Kisslinger

Guest: Molly Crabapple

Topics covered

• radical history
• Jewish culture
• social movements
• journalism
• art

Keywords

• Jewish Bund
• radical social movements
• Occupy Wall Street
• Guantanamo Bay
• coalition building

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Here Where We Live is Our Country

Books & works: Here Where We Live is Our Country", Here Where We Live is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund, The Years of Repair

Places: New York’s, Ukraine, US, Pennsylvania, New York, Puerto Rico, Europe, Palestine, Chicago

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