Join the Workers Circle on Wednesday, August 19 for a book talk and discussion with Molly Crabapple, New York Times bestselling author of Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund. 

We’ll hear from Molly about how she came to write her ground-breaking popular history of the Jewish Labor Bund, tracing the origins of this proudly secular, socialist, and anti-Zionist Eastern European political force.

In particular, we will explore the deep connections between the early Workers Circle and the Bund: a relationship exemplified by Molly’s great-grandfather Sam Rothbort, a Bundist who became a member of the Workers Circle after immigrating to New York City in 1904. Our discussion will also dig into the Bund’s relationship with Yiddish, the meaning of doikayt (hereness) and solidarity in the face of nationalism and state violence, and what all those seeking to build a better and more beautiful world today can learn from our movement ancestors in the Jewish Labor Bund.

Learn more about artist, journalist, and activist Molly Crabapple here: https://www.mollycrabapple.com/about.

Tickets for this event are at a sliding scale from $0 to $18.