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In her inspired and inspiring history of the Jewish Bund, Molly Crabapple has found her anti-Zionist heroes for our time

JL;DR SUMMARY Molly Crabapple's book "Here Where We Live Is Our Country" revives the Jewish Labor Bund's story, an anti-Zionist socialist group from prewar Eastern Europe. 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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Jewish HistoryJewish IdentityIntersectionalityPolitical ActivismEastern European JewsYiddish CultureJewish Labor BundAnti ZionismSocialismMolly Crabapple

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Brooklyn, New York, United States
"The week of Passover, north Brooklyn bus riders found something unusual at several bus shelters."
Poland
"In interwar Poland, as a legal party, it became the most powerful Jewish political movement"
Belarus
"The painting, set in the Belarusian shtetl of his youth"
Palestinian Territories
"Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 and Israel responded by killing over 70,000 in Gaza"
Israel
"Israel responded by killing over 70,000 in Gaza in attacks which many, including the Israeli human rights group BTselem, have called a genocide."
Lebanon
"Israel is occupying southern Lebanon and along with the United States is at war with Iran."
Iran
"Israel is occupying southern Lebanon and along with the United States is at war with Iran."
Ukraine
"canvassing housing projects with the DSA, reporting from the West Bank and Gaza, and traveling through war-torn Ukraine"

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