RaveThe ForwardCrabapple’s book is written for this moment. More than translating Bundist theory from Yiddish, she puts it into the language of today’s left ... Here Where We Live Is Our Country is not a caricature of the Bund, nor a work of fan fiction; it’s a deeply researched portrait ... Poetic and noble ... Crabapple doesn’t spell out what the Bundist response would be today; she leaves that to the reader. What she does is resurrect a buried political tradition in a way her Bundist heroes would appreciate: not just in book form, but in the streets for everyday Brooklyn bus riders.
