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The original anti-Zionists have been all but forgotten. Molly Crabapple wants to change that.

JL;DR SUMMARY Molly Crabapple's new book "Here Where We Live Is Our Country" revisits the largely forgotten legacy of the Bund, a socialist revolutionary group that once rivaled Zionism in 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 HistoryYiddishEastern EuropeAnti ZionismJewish ResistanceBundSocialism20th CenturyJewish Labor MovementMolly Crabapple

Places mentioned

Queens, New York, United States
"...a Jewish cemetery in Queens where Sholem Aleichem is buried."
Williamsburg, New York, United States
"I met her last month in her fifth-floor walkup apartment in Williamsburg to talk about how she made her book."
Volkovysk, Hrodna, Belarus
"...the yizkor book for Volkovysk, a town in what is now Belarus."
Vilna, Vilniaus Municipality, Lithuania
"A street scene in Vilna from Molly Crabapples Here Where We Live Is Our Country."

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