Yiddishe Lebn; Wissenschaft des Judentums; Queens and sometimes queens; Zionismus des Geistes; Folk Music--even some shoutouts to my brothers and sisters and non-binary kin of all Jewish ethnicities, but usually this is Ashkie and Germanophone-centric.
Someone asked me a question about black-jewish relations, referencing another post of mine, and i can’t remember the context of what i was talking about, nor do i have the effort to try and find it. sorry :(
i still have your ask so if i eventually remember then i will respond.
Anonymous asked: i want to shtup a guy, but I'm not jewish. does that mean I can't shtup anyone, only f*ck them?
just use protection.
ps i am pretty sure “shtup” has exactly the same connotations as “fuck” because it can mean, like, to fuck someone over.
pps some jews don’t like it when gentiles use yiddish so know your audience.
"Recent research into that chapter of history and into subsequent generations of German Jewish women has demonstrated convincingly that the salon Jewesses represent a phenomenon linked to specific conditions within German aristocratic and Enlightenment society as well as among the Jewish elite, especially in Berlin, during a particular and relatively brief period of time. As Deborah Hertz has shown, they followed a typical female path of social mobility through marriage; because of the social and economic climate of their time and place, advantageous marriages to Christian nobles were available. Steven Lowenstein has argued that only in the case of the salons and of conversion did Jewish women predominate in the crisis that affected the Berlin Jewish elite; regarding interreligious romance and the subsequent birth of illegitimate children, for example, Jewish men were at least as involved as women. The greater attention paid to female sexually aberrant behavior in the Jewish community he attributes to the “double standard” common at the time. Both Hertz and Lowenstein find the traditional argument, that deficient Jewish education is the key to understanding the defection of the salon Jewesses from Judaism and the Jewish community, to be too simplistic."
Paula Hyman, “Two Models of Modernization: Jewish Women in the German and the Russian Empires,” collected in Jews and Gender: The Challenge to Hierarchy, page 40-41.
Anonymous asked: But once you convert, you're as Jewish as any other Jew, right? Isn't it considered bad manners in certain circles to even mention a person's goyish past?
it’s naive for converts to think they’ve somehow been jewish their entire lives. i’m not going to mock someone unprovoked, but if a convert says something shitty, i don’t see how you can deny that it’s because they haven’t lived their entire lives as a jew. my mom didn’t convert and somehow she managed to not be an asshole regarding judaism.
Anonymous asked: Legit thing I once heard a convert say before they converted: (they were white btw) "Woww a JEW?! I've never seen one of you before! I thought you guys were all extinct or wiped out or something! Wow that's amazing! You're such a rare find!" Ugh, yes goyim/converts keep on treating us like exhibits at a Safari cause that totes makes us wanna accept you! I don't care if Jewish tumblr eats me for this, I completely agree with your stance to be wary of converts!
i’m sure plenty of great converts exist, but the only ones i’m comfortable around converted later in life because they had been around jews for a while or even married to one. i think tumblr and experiences IRL have given me enough reason to be wary of them. also i’m wary of orthodox judaism anyways seeing as how i’m not halachic but was raised entirely jewish and look stereotypically jewish.
when you claim that contemporary jewish consciousness is too concerned with the Shoah, aren’t you implying that we’re in mourning? and that therefore we’re mourning for something that once existed? jews aren’t stupid; we realize there was a vibrant culture before the Shoah.
furthermore, the argument about an overemphasis on the Shoah also implies that jews apparently have a sufficient education regarding it. i just do not think that is true.
The Helix Project tells the story of the life, not the death, of the Jews of Eastern Europe. We bring a group of 12 university students to the historical heartland of Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe for an expenses-paid three-week long immersion in 1,000 years of cultural history. [emphasis theirs]
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well excuse me for dwelling on how all the Dutch Silbersteins were murdered!
(Source: indiegogo.com)
Anonymous asked: Okay, I just saw the post I wrote about Jewish men, and it kind of looks like a bunch of drooling fetishization. I seem to have a kind of philo-Semitism, based on growing up around quite a few people who were both awesome and Jewish. I know the qualities I rhapsodized about do exist in many men of the tribe, and I combined them all to describe my dream Jewish guy, but what if I meet him and he's attracted to me for similar stereotypical reasons?
first of all jewish men being attracted to gentile women for “stereotypical reasons” is largely due to their dislike of jewish women. therefore stereotypes of gentiles only exist inasmuch as they are simply negatives: gentile women are just not jewish women—this is why jewish men like them. so you have to understand that male jewish desire for you comes about at the expense of jewish women. gentile women are trophies which represent successful assimilation. so you’ll have to make sure that, throughout your relationship with a jewish man, you don’t start to turn into fran drescher! apparently she’s just TERRIBLE.
secondly, would you want your ~dream jewish guy~ to read these posts and realize that he’s some construct of various desires—which he might not be able to live up to—rather than someone you grew to know and love? what if the roles were reversed? are you really not bothered when men talk about their ~ideal woman~?
grow up ffs.
Anonymous asked: As a Jewish guy, do you have any tips for a nerdy introverted goy-girl who wants to explore Jewish men? It's not any stereotypical idea of money that attracts me. It's the mix of emotionality and intellect, the passion perfectly blended with neurotic awkwardness. It's knowing that inside that sweet, bespectacled scholar beats the heart of a WW2 resistance fighter or IDF soldier. I'll stop now before I hyperventilate.
you seem nice so how can you not realize that this is antisemitic?
