#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

[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

[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

[jewish-johnnycage]

I'm reading Twilight by Elie Wiesel right now, and while there's many quotes I want to share from it (because it has so many important things to learn from it), I want to talk about how even though it is admitting to the fact that Jews were the Israelites ("Ever since Christianity had driven Israel into exile,[...]" (page 8)), before WW2 the land is still called Palestine in that era ("[...] Hayim, often spoke of going to Palestine." (page 9)) - anyone who says they want to go back there was considered a zionist, regardless of the current country's name ("Hayim, the zionist, has gone on an errand." (page 10))

Nobody is arguing this land was called Palestine for a very long time, the problem people have is the erasure of Jewish history in the region. That we were exiled. That coming back to Judea is coming back home for us.

Y'all care more about semantics than the actual history of the place.

#cage.txt #english #jewish literature #jewish history #elie wiesel

[karamazovim]

Yitzhak Goldah + feelings in Among the Living by Jonathan Rabb

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

[basketcaseinthekitchen]

Young Jane Young - Gabrielle Zevin

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ out of ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

In the early 2000’s Florida, we meet Rachel Grossman. Wife, mother, school vice principal. She’s the next door neighbour of Congressman Aaron Levin and his wife Embeth. Aaron is running for a second term and soon Aviva, Rachel’s college junior daughter, has found herself interning for the congressman. An affair quickly ensues and the consequences it has on the Grossman and Levin families is not pretty.

In Maine, we meet Jane Young and her daughter Ruby. Jane is a wedding planner and gets herself caught up in politics when she plans the wedding of Wes West and his fiancé Frannie.

Soon the Grossman, Levin and Young families find their stories intertwining, through the battering storm that is politics.

I enjoyed this novel, it was an easy read to begin 2024 and left me wanting more. For that, I dropped one star, as ambiguity is everything you want in a novel, but the ending felt almost rushed. However, if you like that kind of thing, you will like Young Jane Young. Pick up a copy today.

#bookblr #book review #bookish #bookworm #jewish literature #political

[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

[debussyandbooks]

4 rajab 1445 \\ 18 january 2024

🎧 lavinia meijer - gnossienne no. 5

a package of books i ordered some week ago arrived, so i went and picked it up this afternoon. all judeo-christian penguin classics 🥹🥹

the ninety-five theses and other writings by martin luther

the history of the church by eusebius

the aprocryphal gospels

the kabbalistic tradition

#debussyandbooks #bookblr #books #books & libraries #book photography #booklr #book haul #religion #christian literature #jewish literature #christianity #judaism #martin luther #eusebius #kabbalah

[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