February 2012
Oh. I forgot to mention.
ludmirermoyd: blazindowntheriver: ludmirermoyd: blazindowntheriver: Quite sure the term ‘faggot’ originated from German. My Yiddish-speaking grandmother shared with me the other day that a male homosexual is called a “faygala,” literally meaning “little bird.” Whoops. So much for my extreme dislike of the term, when it originally meant something so cute……I still don’t like it, though....
Feb 29th
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Feb 27th
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Feb 26th
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Feb 25th
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My Nan was beaten in school for speaking Cymraeg...
marxandsparks: I know kids speaking Kernowek, Scots or Irish Gaelic, or any of the old English dialects would have faced the same violence as. this is part of a policy by the British state that lasted for centuries and almost destroyed these languages. It was true of most states in Europe and was exported to the rest of the world by colonialism. My question, Tumblr, is “How does this fit into...
Feb 25th
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Feb 25th
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Feb 24th
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"I'm Here to Learn"
I apparently “made someone feel stupid” today because they did not know what an incredibly basic term in Jewish culture meant (the word is “Ashkenaz”).  The person, who, according to their rhetoric, was ostensibly not stupid before I snapped at them, said they “were here to learn,” and asked me to chill.  I’m sorry, but this is graduate school, and you...
Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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“Nu-zhe, kum-zhe, ikh un du, Ven der ovnt shteyt uf kegn dem himl Vi a leymener...”
– Bellow’s parody of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”  (via homesickforjerusalem)
Feb 22nd
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Sholem Aleichem's Grave
Do ligt a yid, a posheter, Geshribn yidish-taytsh far vayber, Un farn prostn folk hot erGeven a humorist a shrayber. Dos gantse lebn oysgelakht, Geshlogn mit der velt kapores. Di gantse velt hot gut gemakht, Un er-oy vey-geven af tsores! Engendering Audiences Un davke demolt, ven der oylem hot Gelakht, geklatsht un fleg zikh freyen, Hot er gekrenkt-dos veyst nor gotBesod, az keyner wl nit zen. ...
Feb 20th
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“Miracles occur, but food is rarely provided by them.”
– Nahman b. Jacob, Talmud, Shabbat, 53b.
Feb 20th
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The Corporeal Turn
Why, for example, were American anthropologists, many of them Jewish, unable to constitute Jews as an anthropological subject until after the Holocaust? In a word, the answer resides with the Jewish body. American anthropology during the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century was so preoccupied with race that the only way concerned anthropologists could protect Jews from racism...
Feb 20th
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on the shutdown of library.nu.
onegirlrhumba: the ebook file-sharing portal library.nu, along with filelocker ifile.it, were forced to shut down following an injunction filed against the sites by a coalition of publishing companies. as a graduate student who used library.nu to access books that my school library didn’t have or couldn’t retrieve for me due to time constraints, i will miss the website. it functioned as an...
Feb 17th
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Dear Jewish friends on Tumblr: Mormons don't give...
strastnayagirl: (http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/15/us-mormons-apology-wiesenthal-idUSTRE81E03S20120215) Right, so Mormon PR is on the scene, saying sorry for a member’s violation of a 1995 agreement that the Mormon Church wouldn’t baptize Holocaust victims anymore. But Elie Wiesel is pissed, thr ADL is pissed, and Simon Wiesenthal is of course pissed that word got out this his parents...
Feb 17th
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knowledge should be free וויסן זאל זיין פריי
 !וויסן זאל זיין פריי! אלע קעגן דעם קאפיטאליזערונג פון ביכער Library.nu, a site which made exorbitantly priced academic material available for free, has been shut down. 
Feb 17th
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Star Wars and Halakha
Found on the internet: “It is interesting that Liel raises the “Han shot first” ruckus without mentioning that al pi Halakha what Han did was absolutely moral. Greedo came to collect a debt. Han, a shomer sakhar in Jabba’s employ, was forced to jetison the cargo he was delivering for Jabba. Han insists to Greedo that he doesn’t have the cash to pay Jabba the debt, but will soon (once he...
Feb 15th
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How to Prepare for Valentine's Day
jojothemodern: “Secure an egg laid on a Thursday by a jet-black hen which has never laid an egg before, and on the same day, after sunset, bury it at a crossroads. Leave it there three days; then dig it up after sunset, sell it and purchase with the proceeds a mirror, which you must bury in the same spot in the evening ‘in Frau Venus namen,’ and say ‘allhie begrab ich diesen spiegel in der...
Feb 14th
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“No bird can fly over itself.”
– Heinrich Heine, Pictures of Travel
Feb 14th
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Feb 13th
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“The methods of formal analysis are necessary, but insufficient. You may count up...”
– Leon Trotsky, “The Social Roots and the Social Function of Literature” (1923)
Feb 13th
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Feb 10th
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Sarah and Hagar
“Poor is the generation whose leader is a woman.” —Midrash Tehillim, 22.20 (on Psalm 22:6) “Everything will be changed once woman gives woman to the other woman.” —Cixous, “Laugh of the Medusa” A key feminist tool, a tool not of the master’s house, for dismantling patriarchy (and capitalism) is the building of new relationships.  This...
Feb 9th
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The Curse of Millhaven: So my last... →
freibiergesicht: bb-goose: lolol “quite likeable,” you people never fail to amaze me a-bloo bloo bloo why did people think I’m an anti-Semite just because I basically said that a good majority of Jews are abusers and criminals what do words mean help I’m a goy personally… I’m going to adopt so hopefully someone has made the decision for me already. Frankly, what pregnancy...
Feb 9th
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WatchWatch
glompkitty: glompkitty: I always feel this movie is relevant. Always and forever. **Trigger Warning: this is a film examining privilege. So there is quite a bit of talk of racism, and people stating some pretty racist things. Also just a note, Israeli culture typically calls Mizrachi (Arab Jews) people “black” so they are referenced as such multiple times in the film, oh and there is also...
Feb 9th
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“When the sages went into the Vineyard at Yavneh, they said: The time will come...”
–  (T. Eduyot 1:1)
Feb 9th
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A Very Nerdy Nerd: This is also probably why I... →
glompkitty: lazersilberstein: glompkitty: This is also probably why I shouldn’t do unpopular opinion memes? I’m only reblogging/answering Lane because he is one of my BFFs, and we do indeed respect each other and all that jazz. Honestly though I don’t like arguing about this. It’s something that I have to deal with every time I enter a… uh i’m just asking that you reframe/rephrase/learn...
Feb 9th
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i still do not know how to operate tumblr i hate tumblr
Feb 9th
A Very Nerdy Nerd: This is also probably why I... →
glompkitty: This is also probably why I shouldn’t do unpopular opinion memes? I’m only reblogging/answering Lane because he is one of my BFFs, and we do indeed respect each other and all that jazz. Honestly though I don’t like arguing about this. It’s something that I have to deal with every time I enter a… uh i’m just asking that you reframe/rephrase/learn more before you say...
Feb 9th
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A Very Nerdy Nerd: lazersilberstein replied to... →
glompkitty: lazersilberstein: glompkitty: lazersilberstein replied to your post: lazersilberstein replied to your post:… And to use the “kill” when what really killed diaspora was, ya know, the holocaist…kinda fucked up dude. There was a thriving diaspora culture all over, not just in Europe? I really don’t think… Youre saying A. The holocaust only occured in e.europe and B. It only...
Feb 9th
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A Very Nerdy Nerd: lazersilberstein replied to... →
glompkitty: lazersilberstein replied to your post: lazersilberstein replied to your post:… And to use the “kill” when what really killed diaspora was, ya know, the holocaist…kinda fucked up dude. There was a thriving diaspora culture all over, not just in Europe? I really don’t think… Youre saying A. The holocaust only occured in e.europe and B. It only destroyed shtetl...
Feb 9th
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A Very Nerdy Nerd: lazersilberstein replied to... →
glompkitty: lazersilberstein replied to your post: 20 14 Please tell me what is real judaism (you’re essentializing). I am tired, I didn’t mean ~real Judiasm~ I just mean it is a common observable phenomenon that the more Jewish ID = Zionist leanings, the mos assimilated the diaspora… Considering it lasted longer than the bund, for example, i wouldnt really call it unpopular. You...
Feb 9th
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Something really bugging me...
lackingempathy: So the creators of Adidas and Puma were both brothers and also Nazi’s, so why do Jewish and black people wear and buy their stuff? It’s super disturbing, why wear things not knowing their history? And why hasn’t this been discussed more openly? People need to know. From wikipedia: “Adi drove from Bavaria to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with a suitcase full of spikes...
Feb 7th
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Feb 2nd
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