Here Where We Live Is Our Country

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

The dramatic story of the Jewish Bund—a revolutionary movement from a vanished world—and their radical vision of solidarity in an age of division. When artist Sam Rothbort created his “Memory Paintings” in the aftermath of the Holocaust, he was trying to resurrect the vanished world of his shtetl childhood. When his great-granddaughter, the award-winning artist and journalist Molly Crabapple, discovered his archives decades later, one painting stood out: a girl, her dress the same color as the s