#Ashkenazi

[jewish-vents]

I know Ashkenormativity is a thing but lately it feels like that is reversing because I’m seeing Ashkenazi Jews constantly demonized and their histories erased and especially the fact that being Ashkenazi is NOT code for “white European and oppressor.” like the hatred towards Ashkenazi Jews veiled as antiracism is actually still really vile antisemitism. people need to understand that those lenses can’t be applied to Jews in the American/Eurocentric way people are trying to define us. a Jew is a Jew and Jewish identity isn’t dictated by skin color or where we fled in the diaspora, and hating any group of us affects all of us for the worse.

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#jewish vents #antisemitism #ashkenazi jews #ashkenazi #jewish solidarity

[nesyanast]

Scene from the most famous Yiddish play The Dybbuk by the Vilner Trupe. 1910s.

#jumblr #jewish #jews #nesyapost #jewish history #jewish culture #yiddish #Poland #Eastern Europe #jewish art #Jewish theater #Jewish actors #the dybbuk #1910s #yiddish folklore #Jewish folklore #ashkenazim #ashkenazi #photography #vintage photography

[zarya-zaryanitsa]

Main exhibition of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Reconstruction of the bima from the synagogue in Hvizdetsʹ (Gwoździec), Ukraine.

#judaica #jewish culture #ashkenazi #Poland

[beep-cares]

"Ashkenazi jews are white colonizers"

Buddy it is a regular occurrence that people think my sibling is arab, south american, or even south asian, we are half irish half ashkenazi and it definitely doesnt come from the irish genes

#jewish #jumblr #proud jew #jewish history #antisemitism #ashkenazi

[chanaleah]

in light of Columbia University including ashkenormativity -- albeit defined poorly -- in their dictionary or DEI words, here are some things that people (jews and non-jews) say that are ashkenormative.

"All Jews are white european colonizers!" - While this doesn't even apply to Ashkenazim (who are not white and are not colonizers), it especially doesn't apply to Mizrahim, most of whom's families never stepped foot in Europe.

"Falafel, shawarma, hummus etc aren't Jewish/Israeli foods!" - This erases this culinary traditions of Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews by claiming that the only Jewish foods are Ashkenazi ones. Hummus is just as much of a Jewish food as Babka is.

"Jews should just go back where they came from." - While an Ashkenazi Jew might (but not definitely - ie Ukraine) be able to go back to where our recent ancestors lived, most Mizrahim and Sephardim definitely could not.

#chana talks #jewish #jumblr #judaism #israel #i stand with israel #mizrahi #sephardic #ashkenazi #ashkenormativity

[bobemajses]

Old photographs of Jewish women

1. Georgia, 2. Moscow, Russia; 3. Istanbul, Turkey; 4. Sarajevo, Bosnia; 5. Dagestan; 6. Alytus, Lithuania; 7. Beirut, Lebanon; 8. Morocco; 9. Vitebsk, Belarus

#jewish #women #ethnicdress #georgia #caucasus #mountain jews #russia #moscow #ashkenazi #turkey #istanbul #constantinople #sarajevo #bosnia and herzegovina #dagestan #lithuania #baltic #beirut #lebanon #middle east #morocco #africa #belarus #russian empire #sephardic

[ancestralsurvival]

I saw an Instagram comment that I can’t get out of my mind.

The commenter identified themselves as an Israeli Jew and said they had never experienced antisemitism before Oct. 7 and felt so sorry for Jews in the diaspora who face the threat of antisemitism every day.

And I just …

Never?

Never experienced “little” antisemitism like being told you’ll burn in hell because you haven’t taken Jesus Christ as your personal savior?

Never experienced “harmless” antisemitism like being the subject of Rapture fascination or “envy” over your “unique relationship to God the Father”?

Never experienced “that was weird” antisemitism like going to a fabric store in Brooklyn, New York, and telling the fabric cutter how much fabric you want but when the fabric cutter lines up the machine to cut what you’d asked for from the bolt of fabric, another fabric cutter looks over his shoulder and says to the first fabric cutter, “You cut like a Jew. Give her a little extra,” only for the first fabric cutter to, indeed, give you a little extra that you didn’t want, you’d asked for what you wanted, and you’re too taken aback to say anything so you just pay for your fabric and leave in a daze and you never, ever used that fabric even though you were so excited when you first chose it, so pretty, not pretty anymore, fabric you still have and every time you look at the fabric you feel like shit and you’re also paralyzed all over again and the thought of donating the fabric or using it in a project both seem somehow wrong?

No?

Never?

(In case you’re curious — yes, Ashkenazi privilege and please don’t judge me for what I can’t control. I didn’t ask for the need to wonder if my Polish-looking face is the result of brave and beautiful intermarriage/conversion or nightmarish sexual violence.)

Anyway, I keep thinking about that Instagram comment and the big and small aspects of antisemitism experienced by diaspora Jews, even the minor interactions I’ve mentioned here, and how I’d normalized that as “something that happens to Jews” and … it doesn’t have to.

It doesn’t have to.

#antisemitism #jumblr #oct 7 #diaspora jew #ashkenazi #not planning to make aliyah but i understand why people do #personal post

[jidysz]

Polin museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland

It's a great place, very worth seeing

#jidysz #jewish culture #jews in poland #yiddish culture #jewish history #jewish #jews #ashkenazi culture #ashkenazi jews #ashkenazi #synagogue #jeshiva #kabala #jewish amulet #jewish talisman #canopy #jewish wedding #polin #polin museum #warsaw #poland #polish jews #jewish museum

[thejewitches]

Make sure to read further on Jewitches.com

#jewish divination #jewish #jewitches #judaism #jumblr #jewitch #witchcraft #jewish magic #witchblr #witchy #herbalism #magic #witches #ashkenazi #divination #evil eye #jewish art #demon #demonology #mythical bests #mythical #mythology #mud mouse #tree geese #domovoi #toilet demon

[leroibobo]

the cover of a 1926 printed edition of bereshit (the book of genesis). the illustration was done by russian jewish artist joseph tchaikov.

#russia #items #jewish #ashkenazi #my posts #i don't think this was the actual bereshit

[notaplaceofhonour]

I understand and agree with pointing out that the Holocaust didn’t just affect the Jews that lived in Europe, and shedding light on the stories of Jews in other territories under Axis control. Every life lost or uprooted in the Holocaust matters and deserves to be remembered, not just Ashkenazim.

However, I’ve been seeing a bit of an overcorrection to the point that this valid & important point get twisted by some into the idea that Ashkenazim weren’t actually all that affected by the Holocaust at all and may have actually been safer than other Jews due to being White/European*, and I wanted to walk through exactly why that is so far from the reality and gets into really dangerous Holocaust Distortion.

The fact is that the vast majority of Holocaust victims were Ashkenazim. How do we know this? Well, first and most obvious without even getting into the numbers: the Nazis were most active in Eastern Europe, where most Jews were overwhelmingly Ashkenazi. Germany had colonies elsewhere and the affect the Holocaust had on Jews living in Africa and Asia is not any less important (and the fact remains that their stories are a genuine gap in Holocaust education that needs to be filled), but this doesn’t change the fact that the center of Nazi activity was Europe, and thus that is where their impact on Jews was most intense. But it’s important to not just go off of what seems “obvious” because what’s obvious to any given person is subjective and subject to bias. So let’s look at the numbers:

Estimates prior to the Holocaust put Ashkenazim at 92% of the world’s Jewish population (or roughly 14 million of the 15.3 million total Jewish population), meaning that it would be physically impossible for less than 4.7 million (or 78%) of the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust to be Ashkenazim.

Even that number is only possible to reach by assuming that only Ashkenazism survived and literally every non-Ashkenazi Jew died in the Holocaust, which we categorically know is not the case due to the continued existence of Sephardim & Mizrahim, as well as other Jews. So the number has to be higher than 78%.

Additionally, the fact that the proportion of the world’s Jewish population that was Ashkenazi fell so drastically during to the Holocaust and still hasn’t recovered (from 92% in 1930, only recovering to close to 75% in the last couple decades) means that not only a higher overall number of deaths were Ashkenazim, but that a higher proportion of the total Ashkenazi population died than from other groups.

We also know that 85% of Jews killed in the Holocaust were Yiddish-speakers. The fact that Yiddish is endemic to Ashkenazi culture (and not all Ashkenazim would have even been Yiddish-speakers) due to assimilation means that at least—and most likely more than—85% of Jews killed in the Holocaust were Ashkenazi.

So, no, Ashkenazim were not some privileged subcategory of Jews who avoided the worst of the Holocaust. They were the group most directly devastated by it.

That doesn’t change the fact that the devastation the Nazis and their allies wreaked on other Jews is every bit as important to acknowledge and discuss, and must not fall by the wayside. The stories and experiences of all victims & survivors deserve to be heard, remembered, and honored, not just the most common or most statistically representative of the majority of victims. However, we can (and must) do that without allowing the facts of the Holocaust to be distorted or suggesting Ashkenazim were somehow less affected by the Holocaust or more privileged under the Nazis. The Nazis hated all Jews. Antisemitism affects all Jews. Period.

*without getting too deep into how categories like Ashkanzi/Sephardi/etc. don’t map neatly onto race like so many people seem to want them to. that’s a different post, but just pointing that out

#antisemitism #holocaust distortion #tw shoah #tw holocaust #ashkenazi #ashkenazim #minhag

[jewish-vents]

It’s infinitely funny to me that the same kind of people who consider Jews uniformly white, look at me and assume I’m Arab or Iranian. I’m Ashke. From Eastern Europe. Maybe I’m crazy but perhaps if you can’t tell the difference between me and someone who’s “”””really”””” middle eastern, then maybe you shouldn’t throw racial labels around

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#jewish vents #jumblr #ashkenazi

[septembergold]

Jewish Wedding Ring. First half 14th century

German

#germany #culture #medieval #wedding rings #heritage #ashkenazi #jewish #jewish culture #the met #gold #german history #peoples #diversity #old world #14th century

[saltchipfishshop]

Schlissel challah 🗝

Baking challah in the shape of a key (schlissel meaning key in Yiddish) is an Ashkenazi tradition the Shabbat after Pesach, and is said to represent the key to the promised land. I’m usually team poppyseed but sesame seeds are traditional for schlissel challah, because they are supposed to resemble the manna we ate in the desert.

I couldn’t find a technique I liked so I just made one up- I did a 5-strand braid for the stem, and a standard 3-strand for the teeth and the head.

Hope everybody had a wonderful chag!

#challah #jewish food #schlissel challah #shlissel challah #passover #pesach #פסח #פסח 5783 #peysakh #pesah #jumblr #jewblr #ashkenazim #ashkenazi #pesach 5783 #Passover 5783 #pesach 2023 #Passover 2023 #judaism #queer judaism #kosher food #kosher

[microwave-gremlin]

You know the drill, reblog for a bigger sample size!

(I'm making versions of this poll for different Jewish diasporas, and I might do a denomination version, too!)

#jupi gets jewish #jumblr #jews #jew #jewish #judaism #polls #tumblr polls #poll #jews of tumblr #ashkenazi #ashkenazi jewish

[luckys-last-brain-cell]

I really need goyim to stop looking at inter community Jewish discourse and taking away “oh, it’s okay to be rude as long as the target is Ashkenazi” because there’s a huge difference between a Jewish person calling out Ashkenormativity and non-Jews throwing their limited knowledge around because they think they’ve been given permission.

#ashkenormativity #Ashkenazi #jumblr #Judaism