Molly Crabapple and Jon Lee Anderson: Here Where We Live Is Our Country

Once the most influential Jewish political force in eastern Europe, the Jewish Labor Bund was secular, socialist, and uncompromisingly anti-Zionist. The Bundists fought for dignity and equality, not in Palestine but “here where we live.”

At the Conduit, artist and writer Molly Crabapple’s dramatic portraits of insurgent poets and antireligious rebels, clandestine revolutionaries and lovers on the barricades, will be brought to life through visual displays and thoughtful conversation, chaired by veteran Journalist and war correspondent Jon Lee Anderson. We’ll revisit the extraordinary world of the Bund: by turns violent, volatile, and somehow hopeful, as their stories interweave with the Russian Revolution and the Holocaust.

As we once again contend with nationalism, repression, and the struggle for belonging, can the Bund’s remarkable story and message – that liberation, dignity, and solidarity must begin where we stand – serve as a guide?

Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer based in…