#jewish literature

[salvadorbonaparte]

Help save the Yiddish Translation Fellowship Program

I wanted to ask my followers and fellow language enthusiasts to donate to the Yiddish Book Center so that they can continue to train translators and make Yiddish literature accessible (or at least share this post if possible) 🐐

#langblr #Lingblr #Yiddish #Jumblr #Translation Studies #Translator #jewish literature #Boost #Yiddish Book Center #ייִדיש

[jewelleria]

“But there are nuances to sadistic barbarity against Jews, we are told, and sometimes gang-raping Jewish women is actually a movement for human rights. It hardly seems fair to call people anti-Semitic if they want only half of the world’s Jews to die. The phrase “Globalize the Intifada,” currently chanted at universities across America, perhaps widens the net a tiny bit—but really, who can say? Even the phrase “Gas the Jews,” chanted at a rally organized by NYU students and faculty, is so very ambiguous. How dare those whiny Jews presume to know what’s in other people’s hearts? It remains unclear why anti-Semitism should matter only when it is lethal, or if so, how many unambiguously anti-Semitic murders would be necessary for anti-Semitism to be happening outside whiny Jews’ heads. A realistic estimate might be 6 million. Even then, Jews have had to spend the past 80 years collecting documentation to prove it.”

— Dara Horn, Why the Most Educated People in America Fall For Anti-Semitic Lies

#quotes #leftist antisemitism #antisemitism #the atlantic #dara horn #people love dead jews #article #op ed #jews of tumblr #jewblr #jewish #judaism #jewish literature #jumblr #quote #writing #palestine #israel hamas conflict #i/p conflict #tw violence #tw antisemitism #המצב

[bandi-off]

Good jewish literature? Looking for recs 👀

EDIT:

Gosh, thank you EVERYONE for your contributions so far!! I didn't think for a second I'd get so much and so various recommendations, it is lovely to open the app and always have some new notes on this post of mine

As someone who's in his Very very first steps of conversion, I want to refreshen my reading experiences and leave behind the heavily Christian-influenced classics (which is not entirely wrong on its own!, it's just the same old, same old experience for me rn) and get in touch with more recent jewish literature, so I'm very thankful for helping me with this. I might pop up in later edits with my own recommendations!

#jewish books #Jewish literature #Jewish fiction #book recommendations #Thank you lovely people!!

[mysharona1987]

But this guy is honestly as cold as fuck.

“If one person dying is a tragedy in a war, then what is a million deaths? Nothing at all.”

Um, I think it might mean something to those 999,999 innocent people and their families.

#israel #free palestine #democrats #republicans #woc #liberals #refugees #poc #war #jewish literature #genocide in gaza #africa #norway #Muslims

[fdelopera]

I started reading When the Angels Left the Old Country after I saw it recommend on your blog and I’m OBSESSED and I just think EVERYONE needs to know about it. The flavor, the Jewish, Yiddish, alter velt flavor of this book- impeccable.

Literally excuse me??? Screaming??? At this opening??? When do we ever get books like this?? Well written, plotted, just chef’s kiss??? Talk about a book that makes you proud to be a part of its heritage (disclaimer I have only read through chapter 4 lol).

i know. ohhhh i know. it's that feeling of recognition. the feeling of the familiar cadence of Yiddish that comes through, even in the English. it's the folk traditions, barely remembered from childhood. it's the way that this little angel and demon are Jewish. the little angel is genderless, and refers to itself as "it". the little demon is one of the sheydim. and yet the little demon is terrorized by the goyishe demons in the towns nearby. it's the way that they have always been here. the way that Shtetl grew up around them. it's the way that they care about the little villagers.

it's that feeling of someone taking us by the hand and saying, "yes. i know. i see you. these are our stories".

#i've been pausing every few pages because i start tearing up... #when the angels left the old country #sacha lamb #judaism #jumblr #jewish history #jewish literature #jewish tradition

[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

"Epistolary" is available to read here

#short stories #short story #epistolary #sacha lamb #american literature #jewish literature #jewish american literature #21st century literature #english language literature #have you read this short fiction? #book polls #completed polls #links to text

[snowviolettwhite]

Final bought the two Jewish book recommended to me, "Living Judaism: The Complete Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice" and "It's A Mitzvah! : Step-By-Step To Jewish Living". It is kind of annoying because my local library does not have them and they are not sold in bookstores. I have the PDFs downloaded but reading big files can be difficult more me plus I like having physical copies and I want to highlight and write in the books. Should get them in the mail sometime next week or hopefully later this week.

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Plus, I really want to learn about my history and start writing my science fiction Jewish film script.

#jumblr #jewblr #jewish literature #jewish #jewish history

[adiradirim]

Now that I think about it, the problem isn't that three boys can stand at a street corner and cry "Death to the Yids', but that the cry goes unobserved and unopposed, like the tinkling of a bell on a tram. Sometimes, sitting alone at home, I realize I can suddenly hear the ticking of the clock. It has been beside me all along but, either because I wasn't paying attention or because I'm accustomed to it, I don't notice it. It has got lost, along with many other familiar little noises, in a kind of silence that swallows the sound of things around. Out of this stillness, you get suddenly caught off-guard by the clock ticking with unsuspected violence and energy. The ticks strike in short, clipped beats, like the blows of tiny metal fists. It's not a clock any more, it's a machine gun. The sound covers everything. fills the room, grates on your nerves. I hide it in the wardrobe - it resounds even from there. I smother it beneath a pillow - the sound continues, distant and vehement. There's no cure but to resign yourself. You have to wait. After a while, by some miracle, the attack is over, the cogs settle down, the second hand relaxes. You can no longer hear it: the ticking has blended back into the general silence of the house, merged with the general hum of all the other objects. Exactly the same thing happens with that age-old call for death, which is always present somewhere on Romanian streets, but audible only at certain moments. Year after year it resounds in the ear of the common man, who is indifferent, in a hurry, with other things on his mind. Year after year it rumbles and echoes in street and byway, and nobody hears it. And one day, out of nowhere, behold how it suddenly pierces the wall of deafness around it, and issues from every crack and from under every stone. Out of nowhere? Well, not really. What is required is a period of exhaustion, of stress, of tense expectancy, a period of disillusionment. And then the unheeded voices are audible again."

Mihail Sebastian, Two Thousand Years (trans. Philip Ó Ceallaigh), originally published 1934, Romania

#mihail sebastian #jewish literature #antisemitism #jumblr #words #jewish authors #my posts #'sometimes sitting alone at home I realize I can suddenly hear the ticking of the clock. it has been beside me all along #but either because I wasn't paying attention or because I'm accustomed to it I don't notice it'

[zahut]

“Everything I have learned about faith in a lifetime tells me that the science of creation—cosmology—wondrous though it is, takes second place to the sheer wonder that God could take this risk of creating a creature with the freedom to disobey him and wreck his world. There is no faith humans can have in God equal to the faith God must have had in humankind to place us here as guardians of the vastnesss and splendour of the universe. We exist because of God’s faith in us. That is why I see in the faces of those I meet a trace of God’s love that lifts me to try and love a little as God loves. I know of nothing with greater power to lift us beyond ourselves and to perform acts that carry within them a signal of transcendence. God lives wherever we open our eyes to his radiance, our hearts to his transforming love.”

— Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Z”L, The Great Partnership: God, Science and the Search for Meaning  

#rabbi lord jonathan sacks #quotes #text #words #jumblr #jewish tag #jewish literature

[trying-to-jew]

Guess what came in the mail last night!!!

EEEEEEK!! I’m so excited it’s here!

#YAY!! ✡️🎉 #I’m also waiting on my order of Jewish Literacy! #Jumblr #Jewish Convert #Jewish Literature #Jewish Books #Books #Choosing a Jewish Life #Anita Diamant #My Post

[karamazovim]

Yitzhak Goldah + feelings in Among the Living by Jonathan Rabb

#favorite books #jewish literature #among the living #jonathan rabb #quotes

[someonesspring]

שְׁמִטָּה f.n. (pl. שֽׁמִטּוֹת, also שְׁמִטִּין) 1 omission of debts, remission, release. 2 Sabbatical year (short for Biblical שְׁנַת־הַשְּׁמִטָּה). [From שָׁמַט; see שׁמט. cp. שְׁמִיטָה.]

(i) Deuteronomy 15:1 (ii) Remembrance from Siddur Sha'ar Zahav

#judaism #jewish literature #web weaving #글

[dougielombax]

I like to think that the Toledot Yeshu, the Last Temptation of Christ and the Life of Brian form a kind of unofficial trilogy.

…

In my mind.

#dougie rambles #personal stuff #my poor attempt at a joke #religion #literature #jewish literature #medieval literature #novels #films #cinema #monty python #life of brian #martin scorsese #the last temptation of christ #a trinity #trilogy #unholy trinity #what #no context #this sounded funnier in my head #shitpost #think about it #Toledot Yeshu

[ryuutchi]

Long shot, but does anyone know of historical novels (literary/drama/romance) set in the Tannaitic or Amoraic periods aside from Maggie Anton’s?

#jumblr #judaism #jewish history #literature #jewish literature #talmud

[fdelopera]

hi, have you ever heard of "when the angels left the old country"? it's a very good jewish historical fantasy novel set in the early 1900s about an angel and a demon who emigrate from their tiny shtetl to america in order to find a young woman from the same shtetl who suddenly and worryingly stopped writing back to her family. i really can't emphasize enough how wonderful it is tbh.

Yes!! And thanks for reminding me! I recently discovered the author, Sacha Lamb. And I've been meaning to read it. I just ordered it. Thank you!

#pinejaysong #when the angels left the old country #sacha lamb #jumblr #jewish literature #jewish history #judaism

[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

"Carrying Stones" by Avi Burton is available to read here

#short stories #short story #carrying stones #avi burton #21st century literature #american literature #jewish american literature #jewish literature #english language literature #have you read this short fiction? #book polls #completed polls #links to text