#(ESPECIALLY online) they start spewing zionist shit the second they get comfortable.

[cedarspiced]

man. i feel like such an outsider to jewish (specifically yiddish) culture since my great grandma stopped passing on nearly all yiddish traditions to her kids to keep them safe after WWII but like. there's definitely still the ghost of it in our family today.

my mom makes a wonderful matzo ball soup from my great grandma's recipe. same with latkes.

on our christmas tree we have a star of david inherited from my great grandma.

we use a lot of yiddish words when talking to each other ("i need to kvetch for a second," "you have schmutz on your face," "oy vey!", etc.).

hell, even my given name (now a middle name) is yiddish.

but none of the other traditions remain. just the echos of what used to be. and i can't even talk to even my grandmother about her mother since she's dead.

it's just. really isolating. and i have a lot of imposter syndrome surrounding it.

when i try to learn about yiddish traditions, i worry that i'm just an outsider stealing someone else's culture.

and it sucks.