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I come from a long line of Jewish Bundists. Now, Molly Crabapple is part of our family.

JL;DR SUMMARY Ruby Elliott Zuckerman reflects on her family's Jewish Bundist heritage, while sharing insights about Molly Crabapple’s engagement with this history in her book, "Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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YiddishJewish IdentityEastern EuropeFamily HistorySocialismJewish BundDoikaytSanta MonicaMolly CrabappleMarvin Zuckerman

Places mentioned

Santa Monica, California, United States
"My grandparents live in a small apartment in Santa Monica."
Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
"Marvin Zuckerman outside the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Mass."
Poland
"The Bund was a socialist Jewish political party, at one point the most popular in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe."
Ukraine
"her travels to the former Pale of Settlement, Ukraine and Gaza."
Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"her travels to the former Pale of Settlement, Ukraine and Gaza."
Israel
"My dad and I fell into the kind of argument many children have had with their parents since Oct. 7th, 2023."

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