In 2015, we were honored to welcome Molly Crabapple to the Palestine Festival of Literature. She toured the West Bank and ‘48 with the festival and wrote a deeply affecting dispatch for Vice News from Gaza. When she returned home, she began excavating her family’s history and her great-grandfather’s involvement with the Jewish Bund — a revolutionary movement that was secular, socialist, and uncompromisingly anti-Zionist that reached its zenith in interwar Europe.
Now, 11 years later, she is about to publish Here Where We Live Is Our Country, an epic history of the Jewish movement that refused Zionism’s pressure to colonize and subjugate another people. It’s been largely erased from history, Molly argues, because of its opposition to Zionism — and her new book is an attempt to ensure it’s not forgotten.
Join us for the London launch at the Southbank Centre of Here Where We Live is Our Country.
Crabapple joins cultural historian, archivist, translator and educator Hazem Jamjoum in conversation. He is the lead editor at Safarjal Press and recently translated Ghassan Kanafani’s The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine and Maya Abu Al-Hayyat’s No One Knows Their Blood Type.
Here Where We Live Is Our Country is the April-May pick on the PalFest Bookshelf, and subscribers will recieve this exclusive artwork postcard by Molly herself.
Join us for the London book launch of Molly Crabapple’s highly anticipated new history of the Bund – once the most influential Jewish political force in Eastern Europe.