#Jewish immigrants

[faithandarisadventures]

Immigration to Worcester October 14, 2023 Worcester Historical Museum Worcester, Massachusetts

"The story of Worcester is of people coming here from somewhere else." That really resonated with me because we had to come here from so far away and it was a great upheaval for us. Having never lived anywhere besides Alabama, I never would have dreamed I would move so far away from it because 90% of my family were born and raised there and just never left because it was home and we all grew up too poor to move.

#massachusetts #worcester ma #worcester historical museum #history museum #local history #immigrants #jewish immigrants #immigrant history #menorah #jewish history #our adventures

[6footeel]

haven’t made any decisions about his colors yet so i kind of just had fun with it lol

#i have some thoughts and feelings abt him #.art #malevolent #malevolent podcast #arthur lester #john doe #he’s just a little blobby guy up there #i have some really specific thoughts abt arthur as like #the child of 2 british jews . who immigrated & then had very little connection with community before they killed themselves #and thusly he was handed off to a catholic orphanage #and so . the complicated feelings about religion #along with them being compounded by how much loss he’s had in his life. and how much suffering #i just. as a jewish dude . i have feelings abt it #it’s literally all headcanons that i’ve made up but it slots in very nicely with him so. yeah

[mynqzo]

Why do you like vampires specifically, what do you like of them?

the sucking and fucking

#ask #also many several deep complex reasons #and if i were to divulge into them i would actually never shut up #its the. vampyrisim being a metaphore for otherness. for queerness #them being originally created (in europe at least) to be cruel representations of jewish people - immigrants and eastern europeans - and #these people reclaiming them. the reclamation of vampires to be the 'others' the ones that are ostracized by society #and people finding solidarity in that. vampires are queer their entire mythology is inherently queer as well so its beautiful in its own wa #vampires were transformed from cruel caricatures with intent to portray the fears of xenophobic english men to #complex deeply thought-out characters that embrace their differences from 'humanity' and live in their true identity #remember when i said “i cant delve into this otherwise i wont stop talking” yeah sorry it happened anyway

[al-kol-eleh]

Humans of Judaism

#happy st patricks day #poor Irish immigrants looking for pork in the neighboring Jewish neighborhood #but hey we also love potatoes

[bitter-panacea]

what a cute family i sure hope nothing bad happens to them

#mine #professor layton #leon bronev #rachel bronev #hershel bronev #theodore bronev #they are jewish immigrants your honor

[nesyanast]

Lemlich was a Ukranian Jewish immigrant who emigrated to New York in 1903. She became a garment worker and joined the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. She was a key leader in the Uprising of 20,000, the massive strike of New York garment workers in 1909. Blacklisted from the industry for her union work, she was active in the women’s suffrage movement. She joined was a leader of the United Council of Working Class Women. A life long activist, in her last years as a nursing home resident, Lemlich persuaded the nursing home to join in the United Farm Workers' boycotts of grapes and lettuce and helped the workers there to organize.

#jumblr #jewish #jews #nesyapost #jewish history #Ukrainian Jew #Jewish women #proletarian feminism #proletariat #immigrant history

[gothhabiba]

I know that nothing is beyond Israelis but how do you have the temerity to insist that it was you, actually, who introduced falafel to the "local Arabs." how do you have that much gall. this is within living memory. you and everyone else knows that you are lying.

#''it was introduced by Jewish immigrants to Israel from Syria and Morocco'' #girl we in Morocco do not even /have/ falafel lmfao!!! #stop lying!!!!!!!

[angelofmusings]

HELLO JEWISH PEOPLE. what shoes do you wear on yom kippur. pick the option that’s closest and feel free to elaborate in the tags!

also feel free to share if you go to shul on yom kippur and what your observance looks like!

#judaism #polls #yom kippur #jewblr #jumblr #jewish #jumblr tag #personally i have a pair of inexpensive white shoes that i basically only wear on yom kippur #they were like $10 on clearance at cvs lol #and i go to a conservative shul and usually fast + no phone/computer/writing/classwork #most of the time (when not at shul) i read or nap #this year i read most of ‘somewhere we are human’ which is a super interesting anthology of immigrant experiences (incl. poetry prose & art) #highly recommend it to anyone interested in that sort of creative nonfiction

[bfpnola]

hey! as y’all know, Better Future Program is an entirely youth-run nonprofit and we provide over 3,000 FREE social justice, mental health, and academic resources. but because the majority of our volunteers are full-time students in middle school, high school, and college, we need YOUR help!

the screenshotted sections above have WAYYYY less resources than some of the others. do you think you could help us out? if you have leftist, anti-capitalist resources that align with these topics, please submit them here!

to reiterate, we are looking for leftist, anti-capitalist resources pertaining to: Jewish rights, Muslim rights, immigration, climate change, reproductive rights, classism, children’s rights, educational equity, and fat liberation

#reaux speaks #jewish #muslim #migrant rights #immigration #climate change #intersectional environmentalism #antisemitism #islamophobia #reproductive justice #reproductive health #classism #children’s rights #educational equity #fat liberation #fatphobia #body neutrality #resources

[ineffablecrisp]

Soviet!Ice Headcanons

I've decided to do a little follow up, hope you enjoy!

Born as Toma Efimovich Kazansky in Odessa, Ukraine

His favorite food is his babushka's borscht and likes to drink more kvass than he should on a daily basis

He and his family left the Soviet Union in 1973, when he was 14 years old

Settled in New York, since it has a large Jewish population

Because of the Soviet Union's disapproval of religions (especially Judaism) he wasn't able to have a proper Bar Mitzvah, so his family quickly joined a shul so he could have one

Being Jewish in America was a strange experience for him- everyone knew how to read the funny looking words in the siddur but he couldn't, since he never learned Hebrew before coming to America. Even amongst Jews he still felt like he didn't fit in because of his background

And also being a Soviet immigrant made him stick out like a sore thumb among his classmates, who were suspicious of the new kid with the funny accent and last name. Over time, he learned how to speak English without an accent so he wouldn't be bullied

Many people have called him slurs. Over time, he figured it's best not to show any emotion. This is one of the reasons why his callsign became Iceman

The other one being that because he speaks Russian, people assume him to be incredibly stoic and completely void of any emotions

Few people know he speaks Russian. Only Slider does, and later, Maverick. Most people who meet him immediately notice the Jewish last name but don't realize right away that he speaks a different language

Preferred to hide his Jewish practices from pretty much everybody. He still observed, but only in private. The only two people he truly felt comfortable enough to open up about this were Slider and Maverick

(not so much Soviet but more Jewish, he and Mav get married under a chuppah much later in the future)

#jewish tom kazansky #pete maverick mitchell #ron slider kerner #top gun 1986 #top gun maverick #might add onto this headcanon in the future #made ice's family come from odessa because that's where my family is from and it's a cool city #it also has a very rich jewish culture #icemav #aaaaaaaaaah can't believe i nearly forgot that tag #also based on this post i think it's safe to say that i did in fact want soviet immigrant tom kazansky

[the-catboy-minyan]

people who use DNA tests to """prove""" Jews aren't indigenous to Israel by showing some Israelis ancestry is purely European.

you know Jewish converts are a thing right?

#israel #jumblr #jewish convert #jewish conversion #in this house we love and support jewish converts #and we don't use their ancestry as a way to disprove history #the facts are Israel was historically a Jewish land #and many modern jews (specifically Mizrahi) DO have ancestral links to Israel #so using DNA of European Jewish converts for your narrative is just fucked up #Jewish converts may not have a “birthright to the land” but they do have a right to immigrate gain a citizenship and live here #am yisrael chai

[usssnarfblat]

Did Anastasia deserve to die for her family's crimes against Fieval's family?

I've always found it interesting that "Anastasia" and "An American Tail" were made by the same guy...

My mom got us "An American Tail" as kids, since we were Jewish, and a Disney-like movie with Jewish characters was a one-of-a-kind thing. ("The Prince of Egypt" was still a few years away. Yes, I'm that old.) More to the point, my dad's side of the family is largely Russian Jews, who immigrated in the early 1920s, for exactly the same reasons as the Mouskewitz. Being a child of this background and very literally obsessed with cats, I had mixed feelings about the movie.

When "Anastasia" came out a few years later, Mom didn't let that history stop us from enjoying the new princess movie, but she didn't shelter us from it either. We regarded it like we did the real history behind any sugar-coated princess movie. She even got us some history books about the real Romanov family, and we were fascinated by the subject.

Still, it's an odd elephant in the room, watching "Anastasia" and knowing that her granddad was the one who sent those Cossack cats after Fievel's village, and her dad himself continued doing it to the Jewish mice who didn't leave.

"Go, Pompom, Kibble and Fluff-Baron! Kill those Jew mice, and I'll give you extra catnip treats tonight!"

Don Bluth presents both the Romannov family and their victims with equal sympathy, even opening both movies with the family celebrating a holiday, with the kid heroes getting a plot-specific present, before being viciously attacked.

"Wow Grandmama! Fieval and Tanya could use this as a merry-go-round!"

*Cough* "Yes uh, about those Jewish mice Sweetie..."

Bluth's portrayal of the Romanov family is not entirely inaccurate. By all accounts, Nicholas II was a deeply loving father who both doted on his children, but raised them not to be spoiled. Despite being royalty, the princesses shared bedrooms and did charity work at hospitals.

It's a baffling irony that Nicholas was nevertheless was a tyrant, and not remotely just to his Jewish subjects. When I was about twelve, Mom got me the Dear America book A Coal Miner's Bride, about the Catholic Polish immigrants who also fled the oppression of the Russian Tzar. (Anastasia's family conquered part of Poland in the 1800s, banning the Pols from speaking their own language and drafting their sons into the Tzar's dick-measuring contest wars.) Anyway, that's what my mom's side of the family was fleeing when they immigrated. Yes, my family has double reason to hate the Romanovs.

So, I personally don't have a lot of sympathy for Nicholas II. But the horrors his poor wife and children endured in their final moments never fails to get the reaction from me.

The rationalization for the murder of the children and queen was that it was the only way to ensure that the monarchy never returned. But I assume most modern-thinking people would say that the ends do not justify the means in this case.

That said, millions of families like Anetka's and Fievel's suffered as bad or worse than the Romanovs, because of the Romanovs, and no one remembers them because they didn't wear tiaras. This no doubt was another factor that killed sympathy for the Romanov children. But they were still children.

The question today is, if we can feel for a family that was literal royalty, despite their father being an undeniable tyrant against our own families...can we also feel for Palestinian and Israeli families, during a conflict that is vastly more complicated than Imperial Russia?

Or do they need to be cute mice and glittery princesses to get our attention?

#don bluth #anastasia romanov #anastasia 1997 #an american tail #fievel #fievel mousekewitz #nicholas ii #tzar #russia #imperial russia #jewish #judaism #poland #a coal miner's bride #dear america #non disney princess #disney princesses #princess #immigrants #antisemitism #imperialism #russian revolution #mouse #mice #animation #hamas #west bank #israel palestine conflict #russian jews

[benevolenterrancy]

i read When The Angels Left The Old Country in three days and i'm already tempted to go reread it...

#i read it to fast to draw so i do NOT have a good grasp on how these guys should look #apologies in advance if i've done anything comically wrong #when the angels left the old country #poor little ash and his constantly sore feet bird feet are not made for shoes #for anyone who hasn't read it: it's like a jewish good omens and i say that with every drop of praise i possibly can #angel and demon affectionately bicker their way through the immigration process #my art

[supercantaloupe]

What is the antisemitism in TUC season 1? Does it have to do with Wally the golem?/gen

[ID: an ask from an anonymous tumblr user that reads "would love to hear more about the antisemitism in unsleeping city! was a while ago that i watched it and can't remember what you might be referencing but definitely want to be aware of it.]

no, it's not about willy the golem -- i actually think willy is a great addition to the season (even if i wish we got to see more of him), and an indication to me that brennan/the showrunners were definitely trying to be sincere and inclusive. i want to make it clear that i don't think anything antisemitic in tuc is there intentionally; i think it's there out of simple ignorance, which is also why i think fans don't frequently see/comment on it either. but i don't think that's an excuse, either.

my grief with tuc1 is largely centered around its portrayal of robert moses as the villain. especially by making him a greedy, power-hungry lich working en league with bloodsucking vampires. (also his mini is literally a green skinned skull man in a suit. yikes.) here's the thing; i know robert moses was a real life horrible person, who actually was racist and powerhungry etc etc. and i know that robert moses, the real actual person, was jewish. my grief with tuc1 is not that they chose to use robert moses over literally any other person (real or fictional) to be their season villain (though i'd be really curious to know what tuc1 would have looked like with a different villain), but that they chose to take a real jewish person, turn them into an antisemitic caricature, and then only barely add other portrayals of judaism to balance that out.

like, tuc isn't completely devoid of other jewish representation. as you mention, there's willy the golem -- and again, i really like willy, and i love that it's a portrayal of a golem that's faithful to jewish folklore (ie as a benevolent, guardian construct rather than a mindless destructive monster. i am not a fan of how 'golem' is so frequently misused as a generic enemy creature in other fantasy and ttrpg spaces, including other seasons of d20). but as i said earlier, i wish we see more of him in the season, because he's not around very much, and feels a little more like worldbuilding than a full character to me. also, he's not human. jews are people.

the only other human jewish character in tuc1 is...stephen sondheim. which, again, yeah, that's a real person who really was jewish. but i really wouldn't blame you if you had no idea of that when watching tuc1. maybe from the name you could guess he might be jewish, but i don't think people ought to make a habit of trying to 'clock' someone being jewish by having a 'jewish-sounding' surname. as he's portrayed in tuc1, you'd never know he's jewish, unless you happen to already be pretty knowledgeable about the man in real life. it's far more likely you'll know him as a theater legend than anything else (may his memory be a blessing).

now i'm not saying that brennan or the showrunners should have played up the jewishness of Real Person Stephen Sondheim to counterbalance the depiction of robert moses; that just feels weird to me, especially considering that sondheim was literally alive when tuc1 was filmed and released. it's a tricky thing to portray real people in fiction alongside made up characters, especially when they are contemporaries, and i don't think 'outright caricature' is the way to go about that. nor do i think that moses' jewishness should have been played up at all, because again i don't think that would have been particularly true to the person/character, and also Fucking Yikes. but, c'mon, if you hear the names 'moses' and 'sondheim' next to each other, which one do you associate more with judaism?

and as it stands, these are the only representations of judaism in tuc1. one admittedly nice but very minor nonhuman character; one human character you'd never be able to tell was jewish; and a third human character who, while never explicitly referenced as jewish, plays into some really hurtful antisemitic stereotyping. and it was a choice to not include anything else. maybe not a deliberate one, probably more likely one made out of simple ignorance than anything else, but a choice nonetheless. in a city with one of the largest and most visibly jewish populations in the country, and a culture that is inextricably influenced by that jewish population. a jewish population which has been and continues the target of rising hate crimes for years. i know that nyc means different things to different people, and everyone's nyc is their own -- but my nyc is jewish, and it sucks that that its jewishness is referenced directly in only one very minor way, which is greatly overshadowed by its, in my view, really insidious indirect references.

i don't know exactly how to go about addressing this. obviously, the show can't be changed by now. even if it could, i think the final product would be very significantly different from what it is now if the villain was something/someone else. i think including more references to jews in new york, more (human) jewish characters, hell, even mentioning hanukkah celebrations and menorahs in windows (it takes place in late december, after all; depending on the year it's not at all out of place for hanukkah to coincide with xmas!) would help. having literally any more positive jewish representation in tuc1 would, i think, help balance the bad stuff that's there. because, yeah, robert moses was real and he was terrible and he was jewish. but he's one jewish guy in a city with over a million jews, the vast majority of whom are just normal people. i don't want him to be the only vision of us that people get, in tuc1 alone or in any media. i'm not saying that jews can't or shouldn't be villains in fiction; but especially if you are a goyische creator, you should be really careful in how you're portraying us, and if there are other contrasting depictions in your work, too, in order to not (even accidentally) demonize jewish people as a whole.

#sasha answers #anon #unsleeping city #the unsleeping city #long post #sorry for not putting this under a read more but i think people ought to see this. or at least #if two people felt the need to ask me about it then at least they would want to see the full thing uncovered #also fwiw i do think that they tried to address this to some extent when they made tuc2 #with more scenes with willy (and incorporating more golem folklore with the animating word in his mouth -- nice touch!) #the jewish immigrant family in the photo flashback encounter (even if the hanukkiah in the picture isn't exactly kosher lol) #and ESPECIALLY rabbi mike. i ADORE rabbi mike. i think he's a WONDERFUL addition #i do still wish he was a more important/prominent character. cause again he isn't in it all that much. #(and he's still like. the only new jewish human character in the campaign.) #but i recognize what he represents and i am happy about it #i do think brennan & the d20 crew tried to improve after tuc1. i do. i see their efforts and i applaud them for it #but still to my knowledge they haven't ever directly addressed the errors made in season 1 #and it's extremely rare that i even see other fans mention it #and like. sorry but i am tired. i am. we deserve better. we deserve portrayals in media that show us as People #not just as evil monsters #anyway you're welcome to rb this but be cool in the notes esp if you're a goy #other jews are welcome to (respectfully) disagree with me if they want #also if you so much as mention the word israel on this post you're getting blocked end of

[cavalierzee]

Jewish Terrorist Slaughters Australians

Jewish Benjamin Cohen stabs 7 people to death in Australia.

Including a small baby still fighting for its life.

If he were Muslim, the media would have highlighted his religion and that he were a terrorist.

Therefore it’s only fair and right to highlight his religion and label him a terrorist too.

#photography #terror #terrorist #stop terrorism #anti zionisim #zionistterror #zionazis #zionistcensorship #israel is a terrorist state #israeli terrorism #islamophobia #israel #islam #iof terrorism #idf terrorists #state terrorism #australia #melbourne #western australia #australia news #australia immigration #australia visa #australia day #american #Jewish terrorism #double standards #media #msm #mainstream media

[leroibobo]

avraham avinu synagogue in hebron, palestine. it was built in 1540 by sephardic rabbi malkiel ashkenazi, who moved with his community to palestine after the ottoman invasion of salkonia. the synagogue became the center of hebron's jewish quarter; sephardic jews and their non-jewish neighbors lived together in this mixed neighborhood.

the synagogue stood empty and dilapidated since the 1929 hebron massacre and was used as an animal pen, echoing the fate of many mosques, maqāms, and churches in forcibly depopulated areas from the palestinian nakba. after the occupation forces took control of the city in 1967, they used the subsequent restoration of the synagogue as an excuse to move settlers in and palestinians out.

#palestine #architecture #interior #worship #jewish #mizrahi #sephardic #palestinian jews #my posts #i like not to shy away from the murkier aspects of history here #btw the surname 'ashkenazi' in sephardim comes from descendants of jews who immigrated from central europe to analusia pre-expulsion