28 April 2026 | 4:00pm | Higgins Lounge
Dana Commons
Keynote: “Never Always Again” Workshop
Asher Lecture Series
Speaker: Molly Crabapple (Artist and writer based in New York. She is the author of two books, Drawing Blood and Brothers of the Gun (with Marwan Hisham), which was long-listed for a National Book Award. Her reportage is the winner of the Bernhard Labor Journalism Award, and has been published in The New York Times, New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. Her animations have won two Emmys and an Edward R. Murrow Award. Her art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art.).
In the summer of 1939, The Jewish Labor Bund swept Polish municipal elections, cementing their status as the country’s most popular Jewish political party. The Nazis invaded that September. In the charnel house of occupied Poland, the Bund turned its party into an underground network of survival, and defiance. At the same time, they held fast to their ethos of universalist solidarity. As the cover of their illicit newspaper, Voice of Youth, stated, “All men are brothers, whether yellow, black, brown, or white. Talk of peoples, colors, and races is a bunch of nonsense.” Nothing exemplified this belief more than their collaboration with the Polish Socialist Party. But when the Nazis launched their campaign of extermination, these bonds would be put to the ultimate test.
Reception and book signing will follow the lecture.
Sponsored by the Strassler Center at Clark University and the Berman Center at Lehigh University
