HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY
A Book Salon with Molly Crabapple
with a short musical performance by Max Fractal

Join us at Barzakh Café for an intimate evening with Molly Crabapple, the New York–based artist, writer, and author of the new New York Times bestseller Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund.

In her new book, Crabapple uncovers the history of the Jewish Labor Bund, a revolutionary movement that emerged in Eastern Europe and built a radical vision around solidarity, dignity, and the right to live freely and meaningfully in the places people call home. Drawing from her own family history—including the memory paintings of her great-grandfather, who was a Bundist—Crabapple brings the movement and its people vividly back to life.

The evening will take the form of a book salon and conversation with Molly, offering space to explore the history behind the book, the stories of the people who shaped the Bund, and the questions of belonging, solidarity, nationalism, and collective life that continue to resonate today.

Molly is an award-winning artist and writer whose reporting and artwork have taken her from the frontlines of Occupy Wall Street and the war in Ukraine to Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, the U.S.-Mexico border, and beyond. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, and Rolling Stone, while her animations have won two Emmys and an Edward R. Murrow Award. Her art is held in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

The evening will also feature a short musical performance by Max Fractal.

Come for the conversation, stay for the music, and spend an evening thinking together about history, home, solidarity, and what it means to build a life here, where we live.

Ticket holders will receive a complimentary bound poster from the evening.

Barzakh Café also offers a curated selection of small plates and drinks. Guests are encouraged to arrive early, ease into the evening, and enjoy something from the kitchen or bar before the program begins. Happy Hour All Year.