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Date(s) - 12/13/2026
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
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Molly Crabapple will join Jewish Voice for Peace Northern NJ to discuss her best-selling book, Here Where We Live Is Our Country, which brings to life the extraordinary story of the secular Jewish Labor Bund.
Through vivid portraits of insurgent poets, clandestine revolutionaries, and everyday activists, Crabapple re-creates a vanished world, offering the first popular history of the Bund’s rise and fall as their stories interweave with the Russian Revolution and the Holocaust.
Here Where We Live Is Our Country reanimates a band of idealists who broadened our global political imagination. As we once again contend with nationalism, repression, and the struggle for belonging, the Bund’s remarkable story and message—that liberation, dignity, and solidarity must begin where we stand—reaches across time as a guide to our own urgent moment.
Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer based in New York. She is the author of two earlier books, Drawing Blood and Brothers of the Gun (with Marwan Hisham), the latter of which was long-listed for a National Book Award. She was a 2020 New America Fellow and her reportage, winner of the Bernhard Labor Journalism Award, has been published in The New York Times, New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. Her animations have won two Emmy awards and an Edward R. Murrow Award. Her art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art.
Watchung Booksellers of Montclair will have copies of Here Where We Live Is Our Country available for purchase and signing at the event, which will be held at Montclair State University—University Hall, Room 1070; parking is available at the MSU garage (paid). Cosponsored by the MSU Department of Political Science, Law, History, and Anthropology. NJ Transit bus #28 stops at the university, but infrequently on weekends, so please check the schedule.