‘Here Is Our Homeland’: Molly Crabapple Revisits the Jewish Bund’s Forgotten Struggle

A book by Molly Crabapple revisits the history of the Bund, the Jewish socialist movement that opposed Zionism and argued that Jews should build their futures in the countries they already called home.

The movement offered a vision of Jewish belonging rooted in those societies. Its call for integration stood in contrast to Zionism, placing the struggle for Jewish rights within a broader socialist political project.

Crabapple’s account highlights the Bund’s fight against Nazism and its participation in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. That resistance forms a central part of a history combining political organising with the struggle against persecution.

The book also traces the movement’s defeat and its subsequent retreat from public memory. It returns attention to a Jewish political tradition whose ambitions and sacrifices have been overshadowed.

By recovering that story, Crabapple brings questions of homeland, identity and solidarity back into focus, recalling a movement that saw the places where Jews lived as the places where their future should be secured.