Author Molly Crabapple will be in conversation with labor writer Kim Kelly
Sat, May 16
|1906 Rittenhouse Square
Join Molly Crabapple and Kim Kelly in collaboration with JVP Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Democratic Socialists of America to discuss the Bund's history and how their message is relevant today.
Time & Location
May 16, 2026, 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM
1906 Rittenhouse Square, 1906 Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA
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About the event
Sponsored by Philadelphia Democratic Socialists of America, Jewish Voice for Peace Philadelphia, and Kol Tzedek Synagogue. The dramatic story of the Jewish Bund—a revolutionary movement from a vanished world—and its radical vision of solidarity in an age of division. “Molly Crabapple beckons readers through a portal to an irresistible, lost world, one bound together by passion, solidarity, and a burning hunger for justice.”—Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author of No Logo and Doppelganger.
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Sam Rothbort created “memory paintings” with the hope of resurrecting the vanished world of his shtetl childhood. Decades later, his great-granddaughter, the award-winning artist Molly Crabapple, discovered these paintings and one stood out: a girl, her dress the color of sky, hurling a rock through a cottage window. Itka the Bundist, Breaking Windows.
Itka is how Crabapple met the Jewish Labor Bund. Once the most influential Jewish political force in…