March 2012
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon is at once a patriarchal bulwark and a playful, deconstructive variable of modern Hebrew literature. These two oppositions are, in turn, comprised of many features, including, but not limited to, traditional Torah study, Zionism, and masculinity —his and his audience’s— for the former; diaspora, Yiddish, and the conscious crafting of a public persona for the...
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Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of...
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The soothsayers who found out from time what it had in store certainly did not experience time as either homogeneous or empty. Anyone who keeps this in mind will perhaps get an idea of how past times were experienced in remembrance—namely, in just the same way. We know that the Jews were prohibited from investigating the future. The Torah and the prayers instruct them in...
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In chapter six of Bava Metzia, page aעז, R’ Dosa (no relation to the delicious Indian dish), seems aware of the inherent instability of labor markets: when the value of labor falls, workers will always be screwed. This is the answer, corroborated by Rashi, to the פשיטא: “if workers complete a job [after quitting or being fired], they collect their full wages”; a point that seems...
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“Unless learning is misconstrued as abetting one’s own subjugation, one cannot...”
– Andrew Bush, Jewish Studies: A Theoretical Introduction (via faroutinto)
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Feminist texts written by women of color →
no Chela Sandoval? and would Jewish thinkers count? which reminds me of womanism…Alice Walker? how about the theological aspects?
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“An Israel that talks straight nationalism and is not linked with the world...”
– Maurice Samuel, The Gentleman and the Jew
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“No sooner has a word been said, somehwere, about the pleasure of the text, than...”
– Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text
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Genesis Rabbah 82:10
Another interpretation. “Thus Rachel died. She was buried on the road to Ephrath” (Gen. 35:19). Why did Jacob our father see fit to bury Rachel on the way to Ephrath? Rather, Jacob foresaw that the future exiles, גליות עתידות, would pass by there on their way into exile. Therefore, he buried her there that she would plead for mercy on them. As is written, “A voice is heard in...
“To a gentile poet:
heir of Shakespeare, knights and shepherds,
Gentile poet,...”
– Mani Leib, trans Nathan Halper (via love-among-the-tombstones)
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ungh yes. as critical as i am of zionism and israel, i fucking love to look at russian/hebrew/english textbooks and dictionaries geared towards new olim.
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The ‘Pomo’ Backlash: Looking at Feminism in the... →
onegirlrhumba:
this is, perhaps, the most reductive, vacuous, and intellectually lazy attack on “postmodernism” (which is repeatedly and uncritically conflated with “deconstruction” and “post-structuralism”) that i’ve seen coming from the radfem contingent. continuing to reify a binary sex/gender system is never going to actually dismantle patriarchy, and raging against the apparent bugaboos of...
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ugh
hey, the link you posted re: MRAs as hate groups is itself from a hateful, transphobic site! please check your sources
blinko answered you:
I know the site, it is a radical feminist site. I’m a radical feminist.
I have made several posts here about what I consider to be the fallacies of trans activism and the ways in which it is dangerous to a feminist politics. I do not hate or fear...
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IDK what to make of my cousin
crazy-not-to:
She is 8 years older than I am. We are both nerds. But she is more religious, and is Christian (he mom is Catholic, and was raised with both but pretty much stuck with Jesus).
She asked me a question relating to how candle prayers were supposed to go for Passover since this year it falls on Shabbat (Friday evening). I asked my mom and she confirmed what I thought and I relayed...
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Southern Poverty Law Center Names Men’s Rights... →
sodiumlamps:
somepolitics:
feminismisprettycool:
ladyatheist:
strugglingtobeheard:
thiscuntsays:
fabulous
makes sense.
It’s about time.
yesssss
PEOPLE! you’re all reblogging a hateful, second wave, transphobic website.
CHECK YOUR SOURCES. I’m replacing the link.
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andernathanson:
New Atheist discourse purports to be “beyond” all that meddlesome stuff. After all, science has been cleaned up to redress the atrocities of the past. The “bad” racist eugenicist science and scientists of back in the day have been purged. Religionists of all stripes are merely obstacles to achieving greater enlightenment in the generic name of science and reason. Race and gender...
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Jews and the Left Conference →
Since the nineteenth century, Jews have played prominent roles in a variety of leftist political movements. At the same time, associations between Jews and communism have been a frequent leitmotif of antisemitic thinking. While the political Left often spoke out against antisemitism and promised Jews tolerance and an end to distinctions between Jews and non-Jews, specific, prominent, leftists...
A.B. Yehoshua says Americans, unlike Israelis, are...
bb-goose:
thecakesokay:
haaretz:
Prominent Israeli author says living outside Israel ‘is a very deep failure of the Jewish people’ and notes that amount of immigration from the United States is minimal and embarrassing.
Dammit, A.B. Yehoshua.
You know what’s “minimal and embarrassing”? His dick.
Also I like that no Jews exist outside of Israel and America
Also stfu
Really? Again? He...
The Curse of Millhaven: ludmirermoyd:... →
ludmirermoyd:
lazersilberstein said: yeah, neither is mine. graduate school is mostly reading in yiddish, and one does not need full comprehension for that…
Oh, okay, cool. That makes me feel a little bit better. XD We can speak some sort of strange pidgin Yinglish (though mine…
Anya only drinks vodka, though. Get it? Cause she’s Russian
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Frontier Vest
warada:
“The Frontier Vest hybridizes different religious equipment and a contemporary vest design. This wearable prototype lends itself for different purposes, both sacred and secular. Pointing at the shared histories and belief systems of Judaism and Islam, the Frontier Vest can be transformed either into a tallit, a Jewish prayer shawl, or into an Islamic prayer rug. Both possibilities...
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racists and fuckers of all stripes deserve to be met with the very anger and hatred that they sow. i have more respect for people willing to defend their beliefs with violence than i do for people who don’t understand how people will in fact be violent to defend their beliefs. and i will retroactively make the disclaimer to cover my ass that i’m always speaking within the nexus of...
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There might be more Jewish converts, and prospective ones, on Tumblr than “born” Jews. Which, not to generalize too much, is great, ‘cause you all are the ones that post the Jewish stuff. Gut shabbes.
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“I’m just a person, like most people.”
– Mendele, “Fishke Der Krumer,” p. 10
Anonymous asked: hey what do you think of chaim grade's "the yeshiva"?
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“MISHNA F. Greater is Torah than the priesthood, and than the kingdom; for the...”
– Tractate Avot Chapter 6
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Talmud/avot6.html
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Dan Miron’s a chump. If Yiddish literature did not exist as an institution until Mendele, how can you then claim Mendele’s return to Yiddish was Marxist in nature? Otherwise, just come out and say that Mendele was bourgeois (which you can’t, because it’s not entirely true; unless the subtext of your argument is that Mendele came to represent the bourgeois appropriation...
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Unto the Stars
Would that morning might pursue me with the wind
that kisseth her mouth and swayeth her body;
And would the clouds might bear to her my greeting—
Then, like her frame, so would the hardness
of her heart be moved.
Thou gazelle, that choosest to rest upon the stars,
have pity upon him who must fly unto the stars to reach thee.
gebeizte Sprache: dicklet →
gebeiztesprache:
Yiddish is definitely the worlds most comical language. Which is ironic considering a) it’s largely derived from German, the worlds most serious language and b) it’s spoken by a people with a tragic history of genocide and persecution. The language is riddled with curses, vulgarities and insults…
Efsher bei di Goyim iz es comish
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“[T]his embodiment is not a static location in an absolutely fixed space and...”
– Ian Burkitt, Bodies of Thought (via robert-brydie)
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Nu, Materialism: The New Materialism.
Study of the body, which has obviously been in the discourses of science and the humanities for quite some time, can now counter some of the more extreme post-structuralist accounts, which privilege linguistic and cultural constructs while often overlooking material phenomena. This New Materialism has been particularly fruitful for Jewish studies of all varieties, as the mind/body...
I Love Atheism: To feed a troll. →
iloveatheism:
I hate to single someone out like this, but http://bb-goose.tumblr.com seems intent on attacking me personally for my “An atheist reads the Holy Book.” Like that tactic works. I hope no one goes and blows up her inbox or anything since fighting over the internet is pointless (I don’t think…
“And as for being offended, I’m sorry you feel that way, but who cares? I’m...
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