Molly Crabapple In Conversation with Tareq Baconi

When artist and writer Molly Crabapple set out to research the Eastern European Jewish Labor Bund–the revolutionary, socialist, and unapologetically anti-Zionist movement that swept through Eastern Europe from the late 1800s until 1945–she found herself captivated by its central tenet: doikayt, or "hereness." It is the concept that Jews have a legitimate right to social equality where they already live and do not need to emigrate to a Jewish state. It was a conviction so foundational that the Bund's rallying cry became "Here where we live is our country." That phrase is also the title of Crabapple's sweeping historical book of the movement, now a New York Times bestseller.