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Molly Crabapple’s book is well researched but ideologically biased

JL;DR SUMMARY Molly Crabapple's book, "Here Where We Live Is Our Country," presents an engaging history of the Jewish Labor Bund, underscoring its 130-year legacy through vibrant storytelling focused on figures like her great-grandfather, Sam Rothbord. 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 HistoryZionismEastern EuropeAnti ZionismBundPolitical IdeologyJewish Labor MovementRadicalismMolly CrabappleSam Rothbord

Places mentioned

Volkovysk, Hrodna, Belarus
"Born in the town of Volkovysk (now in Belarus), Sam joined the Bund as a young man."
New York, United States
"His first exhibit was held at the former headquarters of the Forward on East Broadway."
Odessa, Odeshchyna, Ukraine
"Describing the 1905 pogrom in Odessa, she writes: Blood-smearedRussian mothers loaded their pushcarts with the spoils from looted Jewish houses, then had their kids torch their homes behind them as they left."
Russian Federation
"Crabapple takes her readers through the cataclysmic events in which the Bund took part: the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, World War I, the establishment of the Polish republic and, finally, the Holocaust."
Poland
"Crabapple takes her readers through the cataclysmic events in which the Bund took part: the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, World War I, the establishment of the Polish republic and, finally, the Holocaust."
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
"The lucky ones got visas for refugee communities in Melbourne and Johannesburg, Paris and Montevideo."
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
"The lucky ones got visas for refugee communities in Melbourne and Johannesburg, Paris and Montevideo."
Paris, Île-de-France, France
"The lucky ones got visas for refugee communities in Melbourne and Johannesburg, Paris and Montevideo."
Montevideo, Uruguay
"The lucky ones got visas for refugee communities in Melbourne and Johannesburg, Paris and Montevideo."
Israel
"Their party, she adds, meaning the Bund, had given them fairy tales. Zionists offered a place where they could rebuild their lives."
Palestinian Territories
"Crabapple concludes her book on the Bund by thanking the people of Palestine."

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