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Molly Crabapple

@mollycrabapple.bsky.social
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Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND my book: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/64… Mollycrabapple.com Mollycrabapple.substack.com

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 7h
This article is attempting to incite violence against @avilewis.ca . I am not being hyperbolic. Back during Covid, this “mosar“ rhetoric led to the mob beating of a Chassidic journalist. it was the rhetoric that incited the assasination of Rabin nationalpost.com/opinion/yoni...
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Yoni Goldstein: Jewish law tells us how to deal with Avi Lewis
His Yom Kippur message was indefensible
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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: We’re bringing @mollycrabapple.bsky.social to Australia Nov 15-22! Join us in Melbourne or Sydney for a chance to hear Molly dive into her latest book alongside speakers & artists like @sarahschwartz.bsky.social, Louise Adler & more. Tix: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/09/moll...
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ProjectAllende.org / ProjectAllende @ substack @projectallende.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is still happening @mollycrabapple.bsky.social "Not content with murdering living Palestinians, the Israeli military has dug up cemeteries, seizing corpses and running their tanks over the graves so that the tracks form a Star of David" thefunambulist.net/magazine/the...
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The War on Memory: Learning from the Jewish Labor Bund
At a time when many Jewish people of the Diaspora are organizing against the Israeli state and its settler colonial mass murders against Palestinians committed in a claimed unalienable relationship…
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MO*Magazine @mondiaalnieuws.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
De overgrootvader van journaliste Molly Crabapple stond mee aan de wieg van de Bund. Zo herontdekte ze die vergeten antizionistische, socialistische, joodse partij. Ze schreef er een intrigerend boek over: “Here Where We Live Is Our Country”. 👉 MO* sprak met haar: www.mo.be/interview/hy...
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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Attend ‘Inheriting Defeat on the Jewish Left: What Survives Our Losses?,’ a conversation with Arielle Angel, @mollycrabapple.bsky.social, Irena Klepfisz, and Harriet Clark at JC Live on October 11, 2026. Register at jewishcurrents.org/live.
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One of the weirdest things for me about touring a Jewish history book in Europe is that, in America, "the Jewish community" just means Jewish people, who are a wildly diverse group ranging from atheist commies to Satmar. In many European cities, its an official body with a president and a building.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
this week's post is about talking to @mollycrabapple.bsky.social at the baltimore book festival, and about the idea that social movements offer us culture, from the haymarket anarchists to the labor bund to the baltimore book festival and @redemmas.org. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/the-greate...
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The reason that lesbian bar mask story blew up is that an insane amount of cruelty and emotional abuse is tolerated in certain lefty communities as long as it’s justified by the right buzzwords. Similar to how certain churches torment their members in the name of Christian love.
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hey Sweden, I'm going to be in Stockholm on Wednsday talking about the Jewish Labor Bund abfstockholm.se/evenemang/bo...
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Boksamtal: Molly Crabapple - ABF Stockholm
Molly Crabapple är en amerikansk konstnär, illustratör och författare känd för att förena konst och politisk journalistik. Hon har arbetat...
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Maximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Such an honor to know & be in the struggle for truth, life, & beauty with the great @mollycrabapple.bsky.social & @gilduran.com Read their books now! Thank you @redemmas.org & Baltimore Book Festival for bringing us all together, & thank you to everyone for coming out! We love you, & we will win ❤️✊🏽
Photo of Max (left) with Molly Crabapple (center) and Gil Durán (right) at Red Emma’s in Baltimore
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
today marks 8 years since zak kostopoulos/zackie oh was killed in broad daylight in athens. we will be marching tonight, 21 sept, at 18:30 from zackie oh way (just north of omonia square). painting by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social
painting  of zak by molly crabapple
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MosesHawk @rememberxyz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Buy the book. @mollycrabapple.bsky.social speaking at today's Baltimore Book Fest
Molly Crabapple talking at Book Fest about herbook onthe EasternEuropean Bund
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איישע @eyshe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If this interests you: I will be teaching an Intermediate-Advanced Yiddish course with the Worker's Circle in November on the Yiddish political writings of the Bund, focusing on their anti-Zionism and writings on Palestine. All levels intermediate+ are very welcome, link below!
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Today I learned that Ed Miliband is the grandson of a Warsaw Bundist
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
So Internet Archive, Open Street Map, and Zenodo all currently getting hammered by fucking AI bots. Core pieces of research infrastructure under threat. And those of us trying to keep resources online for the public become the unpaid servants of the mega-rich AI shysters.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Molly Crabapple tells the story of the Jewish Labor Bund, which built a mass socialist movement in the Russian Empire and interwar Poland — fighting pogroms, rejecting Zionism, and insisting that Jewish liberation was inseparable from everyone else’s.
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The Jewish Socialists Who Fought the Tsar and Zionism
Molly Crabapple tells the story of the Jewish Labor Bund, which built a mass socialist movement in the Russian Empire and interwar Poland — fighting pogroms, rejecting Zionism, and insisting that Jewish liberation was inseparable from everyone else’s.
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Go buy this masterwork!
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Thank you for the birthday wishes!
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"I admire [Red Rosa] as an artist. I admire it as a writer. A huge achievement." --Molly Crabapple (@mollycrabapple.bsky.social) Our paperback edition is now available for pre-order!
Red Rosa:
A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg
by Kate Evans

Afterword by Paul Buhle

Edited by Paul Buhle
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marc liam @vellichoro.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“We broke open the world. Despite our century of distance, Itka and I share a few common experiences. We both have taken over a street and mistaken it for a country, both grabbed hands with a stranger and mistaken it for a vow.” - Molly Crabapple, Here Where We Live Is Our Country
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Kio Stark @kiostark.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Behold, @mollycrabapple.bsky.social’s Here Where We Live Is Our Country in the wild of a tiny town bookstore.
Books displayed flat on a table at a bookstore, with colorful covers. The writer of this post calls attention to a book by Molly Crabapple in the left side of the photo.
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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Newly unpaywalled on our site: Samuel Hayim Brody reviews Molly Crabapple’s ‘Here Where We Live Is Our Country.’ jewishcurrents.org/back-to-the-...
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Back to the Bund
Molly Crabapple’s book has rekindled interest in the 20th-century movement’s vision—but can we adapt it for our time?
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
After Pretti was killed, Savageford, who is Asian-American, said she was taken to a warehouse near the Whipple detention center where immigrants were being detained. She was strip-searched, including by male agents who Cook told HuffPost on Friday were “touching her privates.”
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My birthday is this weekend. If you’d like to make me happy, buy a copy of HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY and give it to someone in your life who is wrong bookshop.org/p/books/here...
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Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The dramatic story of the Jewish Bund—a revolutionary movement from a vanished world—and its radical vision of solidarity in an age of division.“Molly Crabapple beckons rea...
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Part of being a psychologically healthy adult is being able to assess whether or not you are safe. if you are objectively physically safe but still having panic attacks over phantom fears, you might have an anxiety disorder or PTSD. There are treatment options to help you heal.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
personally I think we should just take the ai doomers at their word and shut it down if they’re telling the truth, well, good thing we shut it down. If they’re exaggerating, well, they shouldn’t have done that
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Your flyer will look better and get more attention if you write it sharpie on a piece of notebook paper than if you slop it up with AI
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Bund and the Radical History of Jewish Anti-Zionism. www.thenation.com/article/society/m…
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The Bund and the Radical History of Jewish Anti-Zionism
Molly Crabapple’s Here Where We Live Is Our Country revisits the past of the Jewish Labor Bund and considers what it might mean for our future.
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Over the moon for this recognition
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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I just finished Here Where We Live Is Our Country. It’s one of the most moving and powerful books I’ve ever read. I can’t recommend it highly enough.
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North West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk · 05/09/2026
Molly Crabapple’s book “Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund”, tells of a Jewish, Socialist, Anti-Zionist Party | Michael Hindley
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A History of the Jewish Labour Bund
Molly Crabapple’s book “Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund”, tells of a Jewish, Socialist, Anti-Zionist Party
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Thank you to Detroit and Ann Arbor for two packed book talks. So grateful to everyone who has come to my events, asked questions and shared their stories
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
My mother is auctioning one of my Bundist great grandfather Samuel Rothbort's paintings. If you loved my book, this is an amazing chance to own a piece of its history www.liveauctioneers.com/item/2394741...
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Samuel Rothbort - Self Portrait With Pump Auction
Samuel Rothbort (1882-1971), Self Portrait with Pump. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. American, mid-20th century. Frame: H 19-1/2 in. W 12-7/8 in. Abo{ellipsis}
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube
Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Both @eyshe.bsky.social and @nathantankus.bsky.social will be on @thefirethesetimes.com soon to talk about this impressive book. For early access, be one of the cool kids and join patreon.com/thefirethese...
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
these deportation flights are the new cattle cars
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Your regular reminder that you can send a stranger who couldn’t otherwise afford it a copy of HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY www.mollycrabapple.com/shop/p/nnkuy...
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Buy a Stranger a copy of "Here Where We Live is Our Country" — Molly Crabapple
So many broke young people want copies of HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY . When Molly does signings, there are a lways many trios and quartets of friends pitching in to buy a single copy to...
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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“It is clear that the contemporary Jewish left knows what it doesn’t want; turning toward neo-Bundism raises the question of what it does.”—@samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social, in his review of ‘Here Where We Live Is Our Country’ by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social. jewishcurrents.org/back-to-the-...
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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Okay my review of “Here Where We Live Is Our Country” is now out from behind the paywall at Jewish Currents. Enjoy, or engage respectfully, or cope and seethe as is your preference
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Back to the Bund
Molly Crabapple’s book has rekindled interest in the 20th-century movement’s vision—but can we adapt it for our time?
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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In a new review of Molly Crabapple's history of the Bund, Samuel Hayim Brody asks what it would mean to adapt the anti-Zionist socialist group’s fight for national cultural autonomy for our time. jewishcurrents.org/back-to-the-...
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Back to the Bund
Molly Crabapple’s book has rekindled interest in the 20th-century movement’s vision—but can we adapt it for our time?
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The Dig @thedigradio.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We asked Molly Crabapple to recommend five books on the Jewish Bund, here's what she picked. Listen to Molly's episodes on The Dig now. pod.fo/e/507d32
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kajak.bsky.social @kajak.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Popular resistance to data centers has built on a long-gestating feeling that used to be difficult to make out in a world of invisible code and algorithms, but now has corporeal form: There are forces that structure our lives against which many feel invisible and powerless (..)"
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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If a socialist is poor, they’ll call them a lazy bum who needs to get a better job If a socialist is rich, they’ll call them a limousine champagne socialist Socialists are only allowed to be lower middle-class and must have a specific job chosen from a list provided by the Wall Street Journal
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Labour Hub @labour-hub.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A History of the Jewish Labour Bund Michael Hindley reviews Here Where We Live Is Our Country, by Molly Crabapple, published by Bloomsbury, the story of the forgotten and suppressed history of the Jewish, Socialist, Anti-Zionist Party. An estimated eight to ten million Jews worldwide can trace…
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A History of the Jewish Labour Bund
Michael Hindley reviews Here Where We Live Is Our Country, by Molly Crabapple, published by Bloomsbury, the story of the forgotten and suppressed history of the Jewish, Socialist, Anti-Zionist Party. An estimated eight to ten million Jews worldwide can trace their origins to the long past Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which lasted from 1569 to 1795. The Common-wealth provided a safe haven for Jews, who fled or were driven from other less enlightened and tolerant parts of Europe. The Commonwealth had an elected King, who extended his royal protection to Jews. But the Commonwealth had a weak central government, which tempted its more aggressive, expansionist neighbours, who made substantial inroads into Common-wealth territory, culminating in the Commonwealth’s total collapse and annexation in 1795.
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ben Gvir posted this video on twitter today which shows fat and happy Palestinians on a conveyer built going through the Israeli "prison" (torture camp) system and coming out emaciated and maudlin. This is textbook genocidal content.
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Tareq Baconi and Ilan Pappé at the Edinburgh Book Festival, where I heard so many impressive people speak
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Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Excellent essay by @blbalthaser.bsky.social reflecting & building upon @mollycrabapple.bsky.social magnificent new book. Alienated, confused, & depressed, American Jews must urgently do better. We can start by learning from- and imagining- the past in order to imagine- and build- a different future.
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Some tour dates, and a letter from a reader mollycrabapple.substack.com/p/you-know-w...
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You know when work overtakes you?
Some upcoming gigs, press, and letters in lieu of an essay
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