Who, What, Where, Why, and How are we Jews? My Twitter Followers Explain it all to non-Jews
I recently tweeted a question to my Jewish followers: “What is the most-difficult thing about the Jewish people to explain to non-Jews?” I was inundated with responses that were enlightening, fascinating, and reflect a wide range of priorities, obsessions, quirks, and arguments. In other words, it was all very Jewish. Below are some of the answers, divided by category.
Warum wollen in Deutschland so viele Menschen jüdisch sein?
Die Kantorin Avitall Gerstetter beklagt das Verhältnis zwischen Konvertiten und geborenen Juden in den Gemeinden. Was steckt hinter der Frage, wer Jude ist?
Warum wollen in Deutschland so viele Menschen jüdisch sein?
Die Kantorin Avitall Gerstetter beklagt das Verhältnis zwischen Konvertiten und geborenen Juden in den Gemeinden. Was steckt hinter der Frage, wer Jude ist?
Develop fluency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing Yiddish skills with Sonia Dratwa-Pinkusowitz through songs, poetry, and short stories.— The YIVO Institute (@yivoinstitute) August 25, 2022
"Jewish can be Black food, and Black food can be Jewish — it isn't something that people really consider." @KosherSoul https://t.co/LaJEqraU4m— Mark Bittman (@bittman) August 10, 2022
Yiddish-speaking Vikings (cross-posted with Souciant webzine) - Keith Kahn Harris
I wrote the following for Souciant magazine – cross-posted with permission: Heavy Metal is often seen as a quintessentially white, Western, music. That is indeed the case much of the time. Metal emerged out of white, blue collar mutilations of the blues in working class heartlands such as the English West Midlands. Metal imagery is often festooned Read more ...
Einst Ultraorthodox – Der liberal-chassidische Rabbiner Akiva Weingarten in Dresden und Basel
Zu den vielen guten Dingen, die vom Erinnerungsjahr "1700 Jahre jüdisches Leben in deutschen Landen" bleiben werden, gehört der Podcast #2021JLID. In einer sehr faszinierenden Folge interviewte die Journalistin Shelly Kupferberg den Ex-Haredim Akiva Weinberg,…
#Rache in jüdischer #Gegenwartsliteratur ist das Thema der 7. Folge unseres Podcasts zur Ausstellung "Rache. Geschichte und Fantasie." Es unterhalten sich Max Czollek @rubenmcloop und @MirjamWenzel mit Literaturwissenschaftler Sebastian Schirrmeister.https://t.co/MWwWB3L2at— Jüdisches Museum FFM (@jmfrankfurt) May 26, 2022
Beyond the Theater of Memory: Reflections on Yiddish Singing in the German-Speaking World | In geveb
Isabel Frey reflects on the challenges and possibilities of performing Yiddish music as a Jewish performer in Germany and Austria beyond the insulated Berlin kl
Why do we not have our own version of Freitag Nacht Jews?
The answer lies in the longstanding misguided and racist assumption by TV commissioners that the only people who would be interested in a show about Jews would be other Jews
Persian amulet made around 1930 featuring everyone's favorite Lilith scarers (Sanoi, Sananoi, and Samangalaf)https://t.co/ZGxJOm2pQu pic.twitter.com/lFexMYbVXc— elizabeth (@shvlman) May 11, 2022