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everyone look what i got
#i was like “do i really want to be the kind of person who has a menorah shaped like a dinosaur?”#and the answer was yes#hannukah#jumblr
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"i'm glad people are having fun. it's nice to have some colourful decorations to break up the dreariness of winter even though i don't celebrate" i say through gritted teeth with seething annoyance as the christmas decorations go up
#actually the christmas decorations went up directly after halloween#or before halloween in some cases#i am a certified christmas hater but i try not to bring my hater spirit to people just having a good time#jumblr
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There's lots of problems with USA public education but also a lot of you were just drawing Naruto characters kissing while your history teacher tried to tell you about the Scramble for Africa
#being a jewish teenager surrounded by people who were into an anime where the main characters are the fucking. axis powers in wwii#certain was. an experience
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pleaaaaaase y'all the process of having a manufacturing facility declared kosher has nothing to do with a rabbi blessing the food
pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase stop
you can literally google what is required
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The thing they don't tell you about getting really into one specific historical period is that very quickly every conversation turns into an attempt to avoid sounding like the "horribly wet in wexford today but not as bad as in the 690s" tweet
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Everyone will not just
If your solution to some problem relies on “If everyone would just…” then you do not have a solution. Everyone is not going to just. At not time in the history of the universe has everyone just, and they’re not going to start now.
#not to make everything about stalinism (bc that's what i study)#but “everyone will just become new soviet men after the revolution”#and then they didn't because. obviously#and a couple of decades on “we need to educate people into being new men” evolves into “everyone who doesn't embody this ideal#is an anti-soviet conspirator who needs to be purged"
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I picked up the Cyrillic alphabet really quickly when I was first learning Russian (vocabulary and grammar took a lot longer and are still pretty shaky) but I can only seem to read the Hebrew alphabet if I already know what it says. I'm assuming it's a combination of the lack of vowels, reading right to left, and Hebrew not being as visually similar to English
#i don't really have a point here i'm just procrastinating on sending an email#but if anyone does happen to have techniques that helped them pick up the hebrew alphabet i'm happy to hear them
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"people show their true colours in life threatening situations" no, they show you what they act like when they're mortally terrified, an emotion notorious for literally turning your entire brain off to the point where people who go into those situations as a profession need to be literally trained on how to not have that happen
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Whenever someone praises "boy in the striped pajamas" i get so angry that I combust. I HATE YOUR STUPID FUCKING WHITE SAVIOR, HISTORICALLY INNACURATE, HOLOCAUST FANFICTION. "Oh it was so sad when the German boy went into the gas chamber" was it not sad when the millions of jews went into the gas chambers??? You only felt that way for the German boy???
*turns you into a fish who has neither fins nor scales and is therefore not kosher and thus will never get the mitzvah of being blessed before eating*
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I always think to myself "well I don't have the world's flattest affect. I think I'm acting pretty normal" but everyone else mysteriously emotes far more strongly than I do. Which could mean nothing
#i have something slightly to the left of this where i can emote (i think) decently well#but only 1) cheerful customer service voice that i use in all professional/talking to people i don't know that well settings#and 2) performative irritation because i like to complain recreationally#and am continually surprised that other people actually. experience the emotions they display (at least sometimes)#and are not doing it to idk spice up the conversation or whatever#“you're so cheerful” i'm actually not i just cover for my social deficits by smiling 👍
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i'm in the process of requesting time off for yom kippur right now and you know what i will never stop being annoyed that (at least in canada, where i live) it takes so much more deliberate effort to practice judaism even in the fairly low-key, secular, not particularly observant way that a lot of people engage with christianity. someone can celebrate christmas or easter or whatever without having to think about what that reflects about their identity because celebrating christmas and easter is just. built into the calendar. but even though i'm not particularly observant, i can't celebrate a holidays without being reminded that i'm jewish and therefore a minority where i live. because every year i have to look at the calendar like okay which holidays can i take off. and then i have to do paperwork about it
#jumblr#and i'm lucky in that my boss has been really good about it but also. that's not the point#obviously there are plenty of people who celebrate christian holidays but aren't in a position to take them off work either#but there's at least the general cultural understanding that that is a day someone would like to have off#this is badly articulated i'm just Annnoyed
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i have a historiographical quibble with how the antisemitic campaigns in the soviet union in 1948–1953 are often framed as an extension of the holocaust in the scholarship rather than being fully considered within the context of the soviet nationalities policy. except when i'm applying for funding from institutions that do holocaust studies. then i'm fine with it
#the dissertation proposal is still in the slightly amorphous stage but the gist of it is how the reshaping of jewish culture#by soviet authorities in the 1920s-30s affects jewish historical memory#and particularly how the survivors understood the 1948-1953 campaigns within the scope of jewish and soviet history#*now* we look at those campaigns and they fit neatly within the trends of jewish history#of being tenuously accepted and integrated into the mainstream and then persecuted#but at the same time it fits within the broader trends of the nationalities policy which was applied to jews in more or less the same way#as it was to other national minorities#and they were *all* subject to russification in the 1930s and suspicion over their alleged foreign ties#and especially with how the soviet government downplayed jews as the main targets of the holocaust#in a way that still persists in a lot of post-soviet states#coupled with the fact that most of the jews who survived the holocaust were secularized bc they weren't in the occupied territories#and secular soviet jewish culture was disconnected from the religious aspects and the stories of persecution and survival#in holidays like pesach and chanukah#which is all to say that the way scholars of jewish history understand these campaigns now isn't necessarily how#soviet jews understood them *then*#holocaust tw#soviet jewish history#jumblr
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reminder that disinformation is bad even when it furthers your narrative. if an organization is bad, you don't have to make up lies about it being bad. it's already bad literally just utilize the facts that are available to you
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a lot of anti-historian stuff comes across like “i want history to be simple and i am suspicious of people who tell me it’s not” and this is a thing you see from people on any place on the political spectrum
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obviously the reason this happens is that i'm jewish and study soviet jewish history (among other things) and most people in the field are also jews but it is kind of funny that whenever my current supervisor is recommending phd supervisors he's like. here's how their interests align with yours. and they're jewish! 👍
#jumblr#i recognize that this post is slightly incoherent but i defended my master's thesis today and i am. very tired
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Tankies really be like "A country should fall into dictatorship and people should die and suffer so that they can know what it really feels like." Like this ain't normal. It's spiteful, hateful, and the kind that you have been radicalized HARD.
They fetishise da revolution so hard that it really shows that you can just swap the christian rapture/the final day/ragnarok or whatever in for it and, eschatologically speaking, it would occupy the exact same niche
#there's a bit in my master's thesis about the 1936-1939 great terror in the soviet union#where i talk about how some people's response to the terror was exactly this#not “we shouldn't be having the terror” but “the people they're executing aren't the people they should be executing”
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