Reviewing Here Where We Live Is Our Country by Molly Crabapple (opens in new tab)

A history of the Jewish Labor Bund, Here Where We Live Is Our Country plots the arc of the organization from the tsarist Pale of Settlement, to interwar Poland, into war-torn Warsaw and somehow, barely, out again. Crabapple writes in her own voice and interweaves family history with the wider historical scene. The book’s chapters have no citations or footnotes — they’re all relegated to endnotes indexed on page numbers and short phrases — which helps the book read more like a novel while spec...