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Here Where We Live Is Our Country
- Author
- Molly Crabapple
- Narrator
- Molly Crabapple, Nina Yndis
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 7 April 2026
- Run Time
- 19 hours 59 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
A vivid, human and radical history of one of the most powerful revolutionary movements of the twentieth century - told through the lives and in the voices of countless forgotten men and women
‘A gripping, human story of love, idealism and betrayal - and an immense, rigorous contribution to the historical record. Reading it feels revolutionary’ Naomi Klein
Here Where Live Is Our Country is the story of a revolutionary movement – the Jewish Bund – which played a part in nearly every major conflict in Eastern Europe from 1900-1945, but still remains an almost unknown part of twentieth-century history.
The movement’s central philosophy of “herenes” – the belief that Jews had a right to freedom and dignity in the countries where they lived – led them to fight the Tsar, reject Zionism, resist the Nazis, and ultimately help lead the Warsaw ghetto revolt. It is also a philosophy that immediately resonates with the political situation all over the world today.
In this book, Molly Crabapple tells the story of the Bund through the lives of the bold and brilliant individuals who were pivotal to carrying out the doctrine, including her own great-grandfather, through whom she first discovered the movement.
‘Crabapple, with this great work, adds to her growing legacy as a unique American genius’ Jason Stanley
‘Recounts, with a novelist’s mastery of detail, one of the most extraordinary rebellions of the human spirit in modern history’ Pankaj Mishra
‘A masterful storyteller who possesses an admirable sense of history and writes with verve and wit … Here Where We Live Is Our Country is a true tour de force’ Jon Lee Anderson
Critics Review
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Molly Crabapple is a time traveller, a necromancer and an unclassifiable genius. She beckons readers through a portal to an irresistible, lost world, one bound together by passion, solidarity, and a burning hunger for justice. Here Where We Live Is Our Country is that rarest of books: a gripping, human story of love, idealism and betrayal - and an immense, rigorous contribution to the historical record. Reading it feels revolutionary
NAOMI KLEIN
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In 380 lush, high-tempo, strikingly poignant pages ... Crabapple documents the Bund’s extraordinary rise and fall. The relevance of her material for our present moment is impossible to ignore
GUARDIAN
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Crabapple’s terrific Here Where We Live is Our Country unearths the story of a Jewish political movement that opposed ethnic nationalism of all stripes ... thrillingly energetic, delightful, vivid
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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Vast in scope, elegiac in prose, this book brings to life the profound humanity of those who stood up to the blood soaked ethno-nationalisms that led to so many of the twentieth century’s storied horrors. All the while, Crabapple never lets us forget that they were also fighting for a world that would not give rise to such evil. This book is many things: an ode to the grand legacy of anti-Zionist Jewishness; a profound reflection on whether history has morals; and an essential resource for anti-fascist history, concepts and tools. Molly Crabapple, with this great work, adds to her growing legacy as a unique American genius
JASON STANLEY, author of How Fascism Works
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Molly Crabapple not only recounts, with a novelist’s mastery of detail, one of the most extraordinary rebellions of the human spirit in modern history. She animates, too, elegantly and boldly, a political and spiritual tradition that the zealots of ethnonationalism had managed to suppress for too long. In the long battles ahead for truth and dignity, her book will be an indispensable resource
PANKAJ MISHRA
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"Insurgent poets, antireligious rebels, clandestine revolutionaries and lovers on the barricades” - sound like my kind of people
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
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In this beautifully written account Molly Crabapple tells the group's story and chronicles its fights against antisemitism, communism and Nazism
NPR
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A remarkable book. With vivid scenes and lively characters, Molly Crabapple brings to life the marginalized and oftentimes forgotten history of the Bund. In pages that read like a novel, Crabapple immerses us in questions of identity, nationalism, internationalism, class, and intersectionality which undermined past revolutions and which continue to haunt our contemporary struggles. With the brilliance of a scholar and the creativity of an artist, Crabapple delves into personal and communal histories, intimately reconstructing the genealogy of a rebellion for dignity and justice, and in the process, gifting us nothing short of a roadmap for our revolution today
TAREQ BACONI
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Molly Crabapple’s words are as glorious as her colours, her writing as vivid as her painting ... A reminder that in even in the most dehumanizing of times a loving humanity might endure, even if only fleetingly
GREG GRANDIN
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Here is Where We Live is Our Country is a captivating and meticulously researched story of family, community, and solidarity. Molly Crabapple takes us through decades of forgotten memories to rediscover an essential part of Jewish history and a revolutionary movement whose organization and ideals are more relevant than ever, and which may yet point the way towards a better future
MIKE DUNCAN, New York Times-bestselling host of Revolutions podcast
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At a time when racism and xenophobia are being institutionalized in the United States and once again sweeping Europe, Here Where We Live Is Our Country should give succour to those seeking inspiration for their own forms of resistance today. Molly Crabapple is a masterful storyteller who possesses an admirable sense of history and writes with verve and wit. In this book, she tells not only the fascinating, long neglected story of the socialist fighters of the Jewish Bund - but also those of Zionism, Soviet communism, fascism, the plague of antisemitism - and explains how it has all fuelled the unfinished duels of the present day. Remarkable for its historical sweep as well as its timeliness, Here Where We Live Is Our Country is a true tour de force
JON LEE ANDERSON, author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
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Praise for Molly Crabapple: Crabapple is a new model for this century’s young woman
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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A revelatory and necessary read
ANGELA DAVIS
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A book of startling emotional power and intellectual depth
PANKAJ MISHRA
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Molly detects the bright and beautiful as well as she does the dark and fearful in the world not just because her eye is keen, but also because her eyes are so wide open
BUZZFEED BOOKS
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Blazingly honest and unafraid to offer up something real to chew on
PAPER
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Molly Crabapple’s pen is a scalpel, and she’s not afraid to turn the blade on herself. Beautifully excruciating
PATTON OSWALT
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Molly Crabapple could be this generation’s Charles Bukowski. She’s a great artist whose life is also a work of art
MATT TAIBBI
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Details
- Author
- Molly Crabapple
- Narrator
- Molly Crabapple, Nina Yndis
- Duration
- 19 hours 59 minutes
- Release Date
- 7 April 2026
- ISBN
- 9781037207976
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Graphic novel and Manga artwork, Social and cultural history, History of ideas
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Here Where We Live is Our Country by Molly Crabapple, read by Nina Yndis and Molly CrabappleA vivid, human and radical history of one of the most powerful revolutionary movements of the twentieth century - told through the lives and in the voices of countless forgotten men and women‘A gripping, human story of love, idealism and betrayal - and an immense, rigorous contribution to the historical record. Reading it feels revolutionary’ Naomi KleinHere Where Live Is Our Country is the story of a revolutionary movement – the Jewish Bund – which played a part in nearly every major conflict in Eastern Europe from 1900-1945, but still remains an almost unknown part of twentieth-century history. The movement’s central philosophy of “herenes” – the belief that Jews had a right to freedom and dignity in the countries where they lived – led them to fight the Tsar, reject Zionism, resist the Nazis, and ultimately help lead the Warsaw ghetto revolt. It is also a philosophy that immediately resonates with the political situation all over the world today. In this book, Molly Crabapple tells the story of the Bund through the lives of the bold and brilliant individuals who were pivotal to carrying out the doctrine, including her own great-grandfather, through whom she first discovered the movement.‘Crabapple, with this great work, adds to her growing legacy as a unique American genius’ Jason Stanley‘Recounts, with a novelist’s mastery of detail, one of the most extraordinary rebellions of the human spirit in modern history’ Pankaj Mishra‘A masterful storyteller who possesses an admirable sense of history and writes with verve and wit … Here Where We Live Is Our Country is a true tour de force’ Jon Lee Anderson
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