The History of the Jewish Bund—With Molly Crabapple
Molly Crabapple joins Danny and Derek to explore the history of the Jewish Labor Bund, its battles with Zionism and Bolshevism, and its legacy for the Jewish left.
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The History of the Jewish Bund w/ Molly Crabapple / American Prestige
Danny and Derek speak with artist and writer Molly Crabapple about her book on the history of the Jewish Labor Bund, Here Where We Live Is Our Country. They discuss Molly's personal connection to the story, the Pale of Settlement and Jewish emancipation, the founding of the Bund in 1897, the Bund's armed self-defense against pogroms, its fraught relationship with Lenin and the Bolsheviks, the Bund's rivalry with Zionism, the flourishing of Bundist culture in interwar Poland, and the lessons of the Bund’s story for the Jewish left today.
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March of the Jewish socialist organization ‘Bund’ on May Day, 1930, in Poland.
(Ullstein Bild via Getty Images)Danny and Derek speak with artist and writer Molly Crabapple about her book on the history of the Jewish Labor Bund, Here Where We Live Is Our Country. They discuss Molly’s personal connection to the story, the Pale of Settlement and Jewish emancipation, the founding of the Bund in 1897, the Bund’s armed self-defense against pogroms, its fraught relationship with Lenin and the Bolsheviks, the Bund’s rivalry with Zionism, the flourishing of Bundist culture in interwar Poland, and the lessons of the Bund’s story for the Jewish left today.
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Jewish Anti-Zionism w/ Benjamin Moser / American Prestige
Danny and Derek welcome Benjamin Moser, author of Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History and the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Sontag: Her Life and Work, to the show for a discussion about the history of Jewish opposition to Zionism. They talk about Moser's own changing views on Israel, criticism of his new book, Christian Zionism and Theodor Herzl, Jewish anti-Zionist traditions, the history of Arab Jews, the Holocaust and Jewish nationalism, and the relationship between Zionism and antisemitism.
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