The Jewish Labor Bund and the hidden history of Jewish Anti-Zionism

In a collaboration with the NYC-DSA citywide chapter, including our International Committee and Political Education, your Tech Action working group is excited to bring back returning guest Molly Crabapple for a thoughtful conversation on her upcoming book, "Here Where We Live Is Our Country."

"Though the Bund celebrated Eastern European Jews as a people, they irreconcilably opposed the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. The diaspora was home, the Bund argued. Jews could never escape their problems by the dispossession of others.

"Instead, Bundists created the doctrine of do'ikayt or 'Hereness.' Jews had the right to live in freedom and dignity wherever it was they stood. They would fight for a better and more beautiful world, even alongside people they had been raised to see as enemies."

"Despite vast differences in the worlds that we inhabited, Bundists seemed to me like kin. Like them, I knew the floor of a police cell, the boredom of a leftist meeting, the electric charge of passing a pamphlet to a stranger, the high of believing, rightly or wrongly, that you are about to change the world."

"In the story of the Bund- across decades and geographies, ages, and faiths- I found the story of our own time, a blueprint for survival, a cautionary tale of death, and a philosophy that might yet save us."

We are excited to mention there'll be a special live guest performance by the two-time Emmy award winning musician Max Fractal. Come join us at the Verso office on February 3rd- Doors will open at 7pm, and the event will start at 7:30pm.

A special thanks to Verso Books in hosting this event, please check them out here and follow their socials (IG and Twitter). Be sure to follow Molly on IG, her substack Ink Vault, and visit her shop.

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