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.
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.
Fuckyeahjewishhistory irritates me. This recent nonsense about the usefulness of the word “antisemitism”, and the slightly less recent labeling of post-Shoah revenge plots “genocidal” really encapsulate the issue. They play into the goyische narrative of “good” Jews and “bad” Jews, and judging by the contents of his like folder, which is filled with readyokaygo, he has bought into this narrative hook, line, and sinker (incidentally, readyokaygo’s like folder is peppered with FYJH posts). His writing is readymade for those who see us as Other, and under the guise of providing an authoritative affirmative picture of our people. In his “about me,” he writes “here I am, passing on what I learn to Tumblr because I haven’t found a Tumblr page that deals with Jewish history.” Off the top of my head, I can think of five or six tumblrs on the topic, or which regularly cover the topic, yet he claims to be filling a void. It makes me nervous that goyim will assume that he really is filling a void, and will take his commentary, presented as universally representative of Jewry under the title “FYJH”, as if it actually were universal.
i find it hypocritical and ironic that he posts so much about the Shoah, then makes no effort to understand survivors’ outlooks, nor understands the word “antisemitism.”
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: Confession time: I love Manischewitz Matzo Balls. Except I don't actually prepare the balls and drop them into hot chicken soup. Oh no. I pour the dry seasoned matzo meal into a bowl, add the eggs and vegetable oil as directed, refrigerate it to make the dough nice and firm... and then, I take out the bowl, get a spoon, and eat the whole damn thing. Like raw, savory, salty cookie dough. I won't say whether or not I'm Jewish, as this may reflect poorly on either group. Om nom nom!
Lmao best anon troll tbh
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.
Anonymous asked: My dad knows of a patrilineal guy who couldn't take the stigma anymore and just converted Orthodox. Luckily the rabbi who helped him with the process was sensitive to the issue and made his conversion much faster and smoother, I know its humiliating for those that were raised Jewish and already think of themselves as Jews to convert, but think of it this way: A patrilineal converting isn't really a full conversion, its more like becoming a Baal Teshuva and returning the family line to Judaism.
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!
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