#jewish lit

[soracities]

Edmond Jabès from "Drawn Curtains" (Return to the Book), excerpted in From the Book to the Book: An Edmond Jabès Reader [transcript in ALT]

[midshipmank]

hello

please read this book

[read-alert]

Happy Jewish American Heritage Month! Full titles under the cut!

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Just Shy of Ordinary by AJ Sass

Teacher of the Year by MA Wardell

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

Ring of Solomon by Adrian Polydoros

Two Tribes by Emily Bowen Cohen

Their Troublesome Crush by Xan West

How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

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

"In the Penal Colony" is available to read here

*Originally published in German under the title "In der Strafkolonie", sometimes translated as "In the Penal Settlement"

[iliothermia]

Havdalah candle merman..

[syeniites]

I know it’s not sci-fi but I would also like to add this bit from Jonathan Rabb’s Among the Living to the Venn diagram

So tea is to Imperial Radch what sitting down is to Murderbot

[shalom-iamcominghome]

My jewish community, friends, rabbi, and educators: We are very invested in helping you be jewish. Do you want to help read the haftarah? Here's a chanukiah! You can have it!! Borrow these books! Here's some books! You need more books... Come to pesach! Come to the chanukah party! When are your classes done? We need a minyan for once!

Me and my 50000 IQ: What if I am Secretly Appropriating judaism? What if I am doing a Cultural Appropriation........

[mikatoonist]

happy holidays! want a sprite cranberry?

i headcanon zee as jewish 🕎

zee for jaijiggles total drama winter collab on instagram!

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Any other Jews think this ad is like pretty offensive? Like, that is the holiest name of god. If that particular Hebrew name of god is written in a book, that book has to be buried in a special cemetery. We don't even say it out loud. So maybe don't put it on a t-shirt?

Do you really wanna risk spilling turmeric latte on the name of God? Is it really OK to throw the tetragrammaton into the wash with your dirty undies?

Yeah, I'm not OK with this.

[on-my-way-to-jew]

Final Night of Chanukah 💙🕎

[the-lesser-light]

To the convert:

Perhaps this is your first time experiencing the holidays away from how you were raised.

You watch for the first time as the family gets excited about Christmas.

It was easy for you to go out away from the friends and family and celebrate your new Holidays with your new chosen tribe. But is it easy to come home where you are expected to celebrate as a Christian with the family?

For some, it is easy to be a multi religious family. You can separate the joy and fun from the religious aspects. For others, it feels like you are being held hostage as you decorate a tree and watch movies about the true spirit of Christmas.

Still, there are others trapped in tradition. You expect the Christmas dinner, the lights, the tree, the movies, the music. Perhaps it is nostalgia or perhaps you don't know how to let go of how you were raised. Maybe you don't want to let go of that feeling or maybe you feel guilty for whistling along to Silent Night.

There may be fights. There may be families that force you to go to Church on Christmas because it's "A family tradition". There may be uncomfortable situations. There may be mixed emotions and pain.

It will be okay.

For those who have converted, are in the process of converting, or are thinking about converting: It will be okay.

There will be light.

Even if you can't light them at home because you can't or haven't had that discussion with your family, there will be light for you.

This is a resilient tribe that knows above all else how to bring light to the dark. There will be a light for you.

[fairyboygenius]

happy chrismukkah to simon ghost riley’s jewish convert ass

[midshipmank]

started reading the pomengranate gate & love it so far, but upon reflection, it was really not the book the pick to assauge my anxiety

[read-alert]

Happy Jewish American Heritage Month! Here's some of my favorite reads by Jewish Authors from the past year

Full titles under the cut

When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

Ellen Outside the Lines by AJ Sass

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

A Shot in the Dark by Victoria Lee

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé

Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

The Ghosts of Rose Hill by RM Romero

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

Nazis are a threat to everyone. We know this, we understand this. HOWEVER. Goyim, non-Jewish people, I'm asking you to think before you speak on Elon's actions.

Yes, the people trying to insist it was just a "Roman salute" and meant nothing are infuriating, but I have seen responses to it that do nothing more than encourage neo-Nazis and their sympathizers. I've seen "comebacks" where people say "Go do a "Roman salute" in a crowd", "go do it in front of a Jewish person". I just saw a video of someone saying, "Better yet, find yourself a synagogue, and go do the "Roman salute", and see how that goes... bet you won't."

You are putting Jewish people in danger. You, leftist who thinks you're being so smart and witty with your comeback, are encouraging neo-nazis to threaten Jewish people. "Better yet"? Go find a synagogue? Go find a synagogue, go there to do the Nazi salute, and that's the better option you're suggesting to them? What you're doing is telling a Nazi that they need to actively harm Jewish people to prove their beliefs to you, and I can tell you that encouragement is embraced by them.

Jewish people are already going to be one of the main targets of any Nazi or white supremacist group, but half of you are actively offering us up for your "gotcha" moment. Y'all don't think before you speak, and you need to examine why you would ever think to give specific ideas on how to harm Jewish people to neo-Nazis who have just been emboldened to a level we haven't seen in decades.

[chicago-geniza]

WRITING ABOUT CLARICE LISPECTOR EXACTLY LIKE TRANSLATORS AND SCHOLARS WRITE ABOUT BRUNO SCHULZ:

"“It’s not the Bible,” my editor reminded me at one point when I was worried about maintaining the traceability of certain key words across the collection, in solidarity with readers prone to exegesis but cut off from direct access to the original."