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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/06/2026

Molly Crabapple's *Here Where We Live Is Our Country* is one of the most important, timely, *salient* works of history I've ever read. It's a history of the Jewish Bund, a socialist, internationalist org that once dominated Jewish political identity: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320... 1/

The cover for the Penguin Random House edition of Molly Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country.' It features one of Crabapple's distinctive watercolor paintings, depicting a woman carrying a red Jewish Bund banner in Yiddish, amidst a menacing crowd of her red-armband-wearing comrades

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/06/2026

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/06/01/d... 2/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/06/2026

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there were hundreds of thousands of Bund members, both in the Pale of Settlement (the rural regions of the Russian empire that the Tsar confined most Jews to) and in diasporic centers like New York City. 3/

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