Resisting Zionism’s Erasure: Molly Crabapple and the Jewish Bund

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H/t Robert Jones

Molly Crabapple’s account of an 11-year journey in search of the past, Here Where We Live Is Our Country, will be published next week by One World/Random House.

She describes how she was set on her journey by coming across a watercolour by her great-grandfather, the post-Impressionist artist Sam Rothbort, captioned “Itka the Bundist, Breaking Windows” (incorporated in the postcard image below).

It led her on a long voyage discovering what Bundism was, and to the imminent publication of her latest book, an epic history of the Jewish movement that refused Zionism’s pressure to colonize and subjugate another people.

“The more I dug into the Bundist past, the more I realized it was not past at all. It was, rather, a candle to illuminate the tumultuous present.

The Foreword to it, published in The Key – a new online publication dedicating to covering Palestine as the story at the heart of the modern world – is reposted below.

Molly Crabapple will be on tour to launch the book, mainly in the US, but with two gigs in London  at the end of May/early June. Book early as places are limited. Her website is here.

• May 27. 7:45pm: Palfest Presents: Molly Crabapple x Hazem Jamjoum @ Southbank Center
• June 2nd. 7pm: Molly Crabapple x Jon Lee Anderson @ the Conduit Club (booking details not yet available)

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This article was originally published by The Key on Thu 2 Apr 2026. Read the original here.