#jewish tango

[jidysz]

I just remembered about this absolutely beautiful song

Here are lyrics in Yiddish and their English translation

[proustianlesbian]

TROP TROP CONTENTE C'EST LITTÉRALEMENT MON PAPI JE L'AIME TROP.

genre il est trop mim's, j'avais oublié que c'est un michel techniquement, j'attendais pas grand chose du quizz mais ça m'a fait trop plaisir 🥺 en plus la description est trop réelle, he's just like me for real etc.

BONJOUR DEVINEZ QUOI

J'AI FAIT UN NOUVEAU QUIZ

BISOUS <3

[zorciarkrildrush]

I think the essence of what drives me crazy about current Enlightened Online Leftist Discourse Regarding My Life Personally And Whether This Time Killing Me Is Morally Correct (as in, commentary about the latest episode in i/p violence) is this:

I want a free Palestine.

I don't personally know a lot of people that don't! They might bristle at the tagline, because it's co-opted by people who do in fact want them dead, but as soon as I lay out why it's in literally everyone's best interest, how a non-free Palestine is horrific both to the people of Israel and to the people of Palestine, how pragmatically ridiculous the occupation of the west bank and the siege upon Gaza are (and I am a very pragmatic person), they get it. And I don't mean I debate people online about it - this, too, is a ridiculous concept - I mean having, time and time again, the deradicalization conversation with my friends, and colleagues, and my family. Obviously not only now - I've always been a very principled and argumentative Jew, ever since I became an adult - and I've been alive for, I don't know, a dozen flashpoints and operations and wars at this point, and I don't stop being argumentative and loud in peacetime either, but especially now.

But that's not what "from the river to the sea" means.

When you, gentle soul from across the sea, echo this slogan, you are either:

By apathy or will, ignoring that the sentiment cheers for the mass expulsion and killing of Jews. Indeed, any non-Muslim present from the river to the sea. This doesn't even begin to cover how even Muslim arabs still will not be safe under Hamas rule - and trust me, I don't care if a Hamas apologist told you different. A victory for Hamas (And we're ignoring the fact they do not have the military capacity for it - I hope you are aware of the privilege inherent to not understanding military conflicts) means exactly that. No "rule by the people". No socialistic, Palestinian utopia to be had, which is a fantasy I'm seeing alluded to a lot recently. Just an extension of the horrific power structure in Lebanon and Syria, where Hezbollah - friends and allies to Hamas - have been playing a tango for decades of both refusing to participate in actual government and betterment of civilian lives, while still draining their resources and controlling them with no real contest. "From the river to the sea" is not a sentiment for freedom fighting - it's a sentiment for a final solution to the people living here who are either Jewish, or for some Very Strange And Weird Reason would rather not submit to Hamas rule. You know - Israeli Arabs, secular and Muslim and Christian, Druze, Circassians, Bahai, take your pick. Their suffering, and my suffering - you know, a person who made the strategic error of being born in Israel while Jewish, which is inherently problematic and not okay of me - don't matter to you. Just the fantasy of an easy, morally correct cleanse of the land.

Are well aware of all of the above! You just don't care. You either smugly chuckle that I, and anybody else who will die, deserve it - or that it's an acceptable loss for the aforementioned fantasy. "Decolonization is an inherently violent process", you'll say to me, chillingly, before implying I have a summer home in Brooklyn I can just retreat to when things get tough. Israel is basically Rhodesia, a very popular blog here mentioned flippantly, so what's the issue with all of those lily-white Jews fucking off back home before the righteous freedom fighters strike them down? Well. This might be the part I urge you to open a book, or even Wikipedia or any god damn thing that will explain to you these upsetting, dense things you clearly struggle with.

It's easy for me to discount islamophobes. Like, very easy. It's very easy for me to discount insane evangelistics who "advocate for me" simply because I'm a pawn in their religious rapture. It's easy for me to fight against Israeli and Jewish fascists - I have been long before this news item came across your feed, as did the insinuations that some civilian deaths are okay, actually.

It's easy for me for me to see promotions for donations to non-political aid in Gaza. It's easy for me to see the sentiment that hey! Palestinians deserve safe, healthy lives. That they have deserved an independent state, and were unfairly denied one, for decades. It's easy for me to see people saying "You know, the Israeli government is shit, actually, and their actions endanger and promote to the misery of innocents". Because that's right! I wouldn't be voting and protesting and donating for all of these sentiments otherwise!

It's not easy for me to see people, who I honestly held in high regard and saw having well thought out opinions on important matters, inadvertently echo the sentiment that my death is acceptable. That a terrorist organization, who rule over their own territory with fear and violence, are righteous freedom fighters, vox populi, only out to establish a free state. Like hey, their manifesto said otherwise, so it must be all there is - right? That Jews are just hysterical, they can easily live elsewhere - ever since that nasty holocaust business everything's fine abroad. Besides, it was just so long ago who even cares stop talking about it. Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS, the Ayatollahs in Iran, the fucking Islamic Jihad - are not interested in freedom. They aren't, and echoing their slogan tells me you are either ignoring that, or support them anyway. If antisemitic rhetoric, half truths and lies by omission work on you today, they would have in any period of time. I'm sorry this makes you uncomfortable. I'm not, not really.

So finally:

Know what your fucking words mean. Have a cursory glance at the history of the MENA and why it's so fucked, one that doesn't boil down to "The Jews, with American help, rolled into where they don't belong". This isn't even a joke. I've seen this braindead, history-revising sentiment repeated so many times, both online and in actual textbooks, that I feel I'm going insane. So many well-meaning people handwringing and assuring each other that repeating genocidal slogans is fine, that calling the i/p conflict "a simple problem" (which means it has a simple solution, right? Just kill the Jews.) is a well-adjusted and intellectual take. That "only the Zionists should die! The rest will be fine :)" I dare you to say that and also give me a correct definition of what Zionism is. Why I, a Jew that advocates for Palestinian statehood and rights and safety and always have, won't also face the wall in your little fantasy.

Freedom to Palestine. Peace in the middle east, fucking yesterday.

A curse and a plague on those who don't want either of those, and just want to cheer on the death of "the other side".

A curse and a plague upon you, when you tell me, smugly, from somewhere safe and far away, "from the river to the sea".

[rosetyler42]

My two faves ships rn: Drericka and Fiddauthor! I do love the idea of these 4 as friends. Two sets of (queer, Neurodivergent, Jewish + Christian) rediculously loyal morally grey cartoon weirdos and freaks who've found eachother. At least 2 of which from not-great high pressure home backgrounds, ended up the accomplice to Genocide/Weirdmaggedon, and ended up hurting the other in some way and are awed the other managed to forgive them.

I was going to draw Fidds and Drericka talking about Drac and Ericka's "Tango of Death" repeatedly saving Ericka's life through death traps and his encounter with the Gremloblin where he got quilled in the arm and saving Ford by knocking out a Krampus - not to mention the times Ford saved HIM, but it came out looking good without words. Fidds still seems the type to tell weird personal stories, even when he gets his mind back. Ericka doesn't mind this, she tells weirdly personal stories right back. Ford and Drac are both charmed and chagrined by this. XD

@lovelylivelyv @black-ak9 @hotelt-resurrection @martin44444 @serial-serializednovelreader @royaledevil @deathfangirl9 @heartsong1994 @kittyball23 @nerdalmighty @dorykinny @monstetransylvaniasstuff @dreamlanddoll

[justforbooks]

Martial Solal

French jazz pianist who loved to improvise and wrote the score for Jean-Luc Godard’s film A Bout de Souffle

A squint through the metal fence around Martial Solal’s tree-shrouded villa, in Chatou, the suburb of Paris known as the “ville des impressionistes”, could have confirmed that the great French pianist was not the average jazz musician. Solal, who has died aged 97, was the most famous jazz musician in France from the 1950s onwards, and widely known across Europe and the US.

The breakthrough that paid for that Chatou villa came when Solal – then a little-known club pianist – wrote the score for Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 film A Bout de Souffle (Breathless). The commission came out of the blue via Godard’s jazz-loving friend and fellow director Jean-Pierre Melville, and Solal collected royalties on it for ever after. “It’s like I won the Lotto,” he said in 2010. “Because back in 1959 when I did it, I was mainly just known for being the house pianist in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés jazz club.” Godard had few ideas about the music he wanted, beyond joking to Solal that he might compose a piece for a banjo player, to save money. The pianist promptly produced a soundtrack for big band and 30 violins.

Solal went on to work on several more films, and was one of the first Europeans to perform at the Newport jazz festival in the US. Into his 80s, he could still walk the tightrope of unaccompanied improvised performance, and his compositions had a signature as personal and harmonically idiosyncratic as Thelonious Monk’s. Solal, who liked stop-start melodies and constant rhythmic changes, wrote elegant pieces that slowly coalesced out of scattered fragments. He loved peppering classic jazz material – even as sacrosanct as Duke Ellington’s – with disrespectful quotes going all the way back to his danceband days in Algiers, the city where he was born.

Solal’s mother, Sultana Abrami, an amateur opera singer, introduced him to classical piano as a child. During the second world war, under Nazi race laws, Martial was excluded from a secondary education because his father, Jacob Cohen-Solal, an accountant, was Jewish. He took jazz clarinet and piano lessons from a local bandleader, with whom he was soon performing tangos, waltzes and Benny Goodmanesque swing. Soon, Fats Waller, Erroll Garner, Art Tatum and the bebop virtuoso Bud Powell began to displace Chopin and Bach among Solal’s keyboard models.

He moved to Paris in 1950 after his military service, and teamed up with the American bebop drums pioneer Kenny Clarke in the house band at the Saint-Germain-des-Prés club. The young pianist’s nervous recording debut was in April 1953 with the jazz-guitar genius Django Reinhardt, who turned out to be playing on his last; Reinhardt died the following month. That year, Solal recorded Modern Sounds with his own trio and also recorded unaccompanied. After working with Sidney Bechet in 1957, he received the commission for the Breathless score.

The word about Solal then began to reach America – both Oscar Peterson and Ellington had been entranced by him in Paris, with Ellington pronouncing him a “soul brother”. In 1963, he played at Newport, with the bassist Teddy Kotick and the drummer Paul Motian; despite barely knowing his new partners, Solal boldly added his 11-minute tempo-shuffling Suite Pour Une Frise to the usual programme of standard songs.

Turning down an invitation to move to the US, Solal led world-class groups in the 1960s and 70s, often including the drummer Daniel Humair, the bassist Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, and even an advanced two-bass trio for piano and the double-bassists Gilbert Rovère and Jean-François Jenny-Clark. He also explored fruitful duo partnerships with the American saxophonists Lee Konitz and Phil Woods between the 70s and the 90s, and led innovative big bands, notably on the thrilling Martial Solal Big Band session (for the Gaumont label in 1981) and Plays Hodeir (1984).

An insatiable capacity for self-education helped Solal to develop a characteristically pungent harmonic language. He wrote and performed contemporary classical music and published jazz-piano pieces modelled on the Mikrokosmos educational cycles of Béla Bartók.

In 1989 the Martial Solal jazz piano competition was founded. Its winners have included the Frenchman Baptiste Trotignon and the charismatic Armenian virtuoso Tigran Hamasyan. In the 90s, Solal often worked with the Moutin twins, François and Louis, on bass and drums – both were flexible enough to follow their leader’s tendency to launch a tune without telling them what it was, change key without warning, or turn it into a different song entirely.

As he entered his 70s, Solal seemed to be playing with a revitalised and swashbuckling confidence – as if he was finally sure that he would still sound like himself whether he played within the regular rules, or broke them. In 1999, he won Denmark’s Jazzpar prize, and celebrated by writing parts for the accompanying Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra owing as much to the French impressionist classical composers as to jazz. In that decade, Solal also had an unprecedented 30-concert solo run on French national radio.

In 2000, with his 12-piece Dodecaband, he recorded Martial Solal Dodecaband Plays Ellington. During the following decade, he recorded two live albums at the Village Vanguard in New York; the brilliant unaccompanied session Solitude; the duet Rue de Seine, with the trumpeter Dave Douglas; and the Exposition Sans Tableau session for his woodwind-less, brass-packed Decaband – a typically quirky lineup featuring Solal’s talented daughter Claudia singing the roles of a missing sax section.

His final public performance was a solo concert in 2019, at the Salle Gaveau hall where he had made his Paris debut in 1961. After a masterly exposition later issued on the album Coming Yesterday, Solal’s typically elegant exit was prefaced by the words: “I don’t want to bore you. It’s better that you leave here serene.” Then he played “a nice chord like this” – a single F major – said “Voilà. Merci” and left the stage.

Solal undoubtedly loved improvisation, but he believed it needed the spur of challenging composition to stop improvisers from slipping into habits. Not everyone shared his enthusiasm for musical jokes and maybe Solal was unnecessarily diverted by whether or not jazz could satisfy what he saw as classical listeners’ expectations of “perfection”. But he was a jazz-lover to his nimble fingertips, nonetheless. Speculating that probably no more than 10% of his fellow countryfolk knew anything about jazz, Solal phelgmatically declared that “as long as we can live, and play the music we like, it’s too bad for the 90%. It’s their loss.”

Solal is survived by his wife, Anna, their son, Eric, and daughter, Claudia, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

🔔 Martial Saul Cohen-Solal, musician, born 23 August 1927; died 12 December 2024

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[mintaikk]

My school's library app has a section on banned books, and I want to list some of the books that were banned in other schools and why I think they were banned

Skippyjon jones -You know, the children's book about a weird dog cat think? Yeah, that was banned. I'm assuming it's because the dog/cat thing is Mexican

Miles Morales: Suspended (Jason Reynolds) -Miles is black

Rick (Alex Gino) -Rick is LGBT so obvious no :(

Perfect Mexican Daughter - The girl is Mexican

I Am Jazz (Jessica Herthel, Jazz Jennings) - it teaches kids about trans people, which is an OBVIOUS no no 🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️ (heard about this girl before and I think her book is adorable. It's a picture book and a good way to teach young kids about the existence of trans people)

Anne Frank's diary -Nazis, I assume, but honestly probbaly Jewish people as well. God forbid history

The Rebellious Life or Mrs. Rosa Parks (Jeanne Theoharris) -She made white people look bad

The Magic Fish (Trung Le Ngyuen) -The kid is Asian. Ya know, I'm starting to see a pattern of the books their banning

Ban This Book (Alan Gratz) -About a 4th grade black girl fighting book bannings. Can't give those kids ideas 🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️

All Are Welcome (Alexandra Penfold) - a literal children's picture book with short poems on accepting people of different backgrounds. I'm not making this up. That was banned

And Tango Makes Three (Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell) -NO I LOVE THESE TWO PENGUINS NOO!!!! It's about REAL LIFE PENGUINS at the Central Zoo Park who were gay and adopted a daughter at a zoo. It's a picture book and a children's book. Jesus Christ, book bans

Hood Feminism (Mikki Kendall) -A book about black feminism. Was banned for obvious reasons

There's more but there's literally hundreds of books there. I'll probably renlog later when I feel like looking again

[nonegenderleftpain]

Today there was a rally at the Indiana Statehouse to protest against the "slate of hate," a collection of anti-queer legislation targeting all queer people but trans people specifically. My chorus was asked to sing, and I was unsure what to expect (as well as very nervous, as they've passed a bill banning gender affirming care for inmates, and cops aren't known for listening to reason). The rally went incredibly well, and that's a subject for independent journals to cover. I'm here to talk about something personal.

At the end of the rally, at which several state representatives, local leaders, and queer people spoke (including drag queen Lola Palooza reading And Tango Makes Three for us), I was approached by a young trans person in tears. They came up to me and thanked me for being visibly Jewish and visibly trans and disabled, and told me at the shul they grew up at, they were alone. I hugged them and we held each other for a bit, where I let them know that they are not alone and we are never going to stop fighting.

What I wish I had had the words to say at the time is darling, I did it for you. You are the reason I'm here, the reason I'm so open. So people like you see me and see themselves, and see an anchor of safety in a world progressively more hostile to you. All you young trans kids out there, everything I do is for you. Every bit of work I do, every time I speak, every event I attend and letter I write and outfit I wear is to make this world a little safer for you.

To the young person who came and cried on my shoulder today: you said thank you to me. But I want to thank you. Thank you for reminding me why I do this work, and for showing me in no uncertain terms that it is worth it.

[faraway-sunshine]

Currently sorting the mail. Mom's brother sent envelopes again, and this time Grandma did too, huh. Also one from my Japanese uncle, one from each band member, one from Kit's little sister, and one from Hana from school. My mom's boss also sent a parcel in care of her, but it's for the dog. So I guess he still hasn't found him a new home yet.

Earlier in the month Tango, who's Hana's friend that sometimes hangs out with me, gave me a Happy Birthday card and wrote "Jesus" under the Happy Birthday. His family's Jewish so he said he couldn't find any Christmas cards in the house and he'd advanced on his allowance too much to do it again to buy me one so he made do. It's kind of funny though.

(Monday 18th December, 2000, 6:20 PM)

[papirouge]

Are hamas demonic for provoking and maintaining a conflict that could end tomorrow if they resigned from power releasing all hostages or how about neighbouring arab states are they also demonic for not accepting fleeing palestinians? responsibility for palestine's wellbeing is placed on hamas and hamas alone this is the result

Thank you for proving exactly what I said abt you being the Hamas biggest fans by how you basically need them to remove from yourself any responsibility. Hamas being demonic doesn't remove Israel own demonic evilness the slightest. At least, the Hamas doesn't claim being "god chosen people" while committing heinous crimes, which is an insult to the God that I personally serve.

And no, it's not Hamas responsibility that Israel is willingly starving and bombing civilians while we're talking. Israel could literally stop this massacre right now regardless of whatever Hamas does. It takes 2 to tango and you can't blame the Hamas "maintaining this war" when Israel actively participated in the escalation of this conflict for months, now.

To keep up my previous metaphor, SWAT teams don't bomb entire building where hostages are held along their kidnappers, and then shift the blame onto them saying "they only had to resign and release all hostages 🤪". There's no point to pull out this defense because EVERYONE IS DEAD and this wouldn't make them look any less guilty and vile.

Those Arabs states don't have to deal with Palestinians that Israel forcefully deported. Why would they? Because they're Arabs? are you a racial tribalist bio essentialist who thinks belonging to the same race and/or sharing the same faith means unconditional support and solidarity? Have you seen Europe History? all White and Christians murdering and deporting each others for CENTURIES.

You guys have to stop feeling entitled to have foreign countries deal with a problem that YOU caused. Palestinians have their land and YOU decided to displace them over a degenerate fanatical agenda - YOU have to find a way to deal with it within your own borders. Stop trying to make it everyone's problem. Last time I checked, Israel didn't ask for those Arab countries when they decided to deport Palestinians ; now Israel has to deal with the consequences of this decision the same way - alone.

Also it's funny how you have the same talking points as antisemites who also LOVE reminding everyone how nobody wanted Jews in their countries to prove that Jewish were undesirable anywhere in the world and that there had to be something wrong with them. Never beat the Nazi accusations.

And btw if Israel really wanted to bring back hostages maybe they didn't carpet bombed entire cities. Rumors are starting circulating that Israel is guilty of murdering their own hostages by its own blind brutality, and hides it from the population so that it doesn't turn against the government. Truth will always come out. And you won't be able to blame the Hamas this time.

[fandomsarefamily1966]

Based on this post:

[g0nta-g0kuhara]

did someone say headcanons!

Lets see, Rantaro won his previous game as a blackened, he can play acoustic guitar, he has OCD,

Kaito knows how to tango and can play like three songs on the guitar

Himiko is actually a descendant of the one Caged Villager survivor and her 'master' is her adopted father that she calls master because she got REALLY into fantasy novels and all great mages in those novels had a master who taught them magic! her dad's hoping she grows out of it.

Tenko is allergic to mangoes and has tritanomaly colorblindness

Shuichi is a blonde but he dyes his hair and he's a SUPER lovely and adventurous drunk, Shuichi also sucks at chess

Kaede is Jewish

THESE ARE SO SPECIFIC IM IMPRESSED

Okay I'm especially obsessed with Kaito knowing how to play only like 3 songs on the guitar. I bet he'd say he knows how to play guitar if you asked him and then if you request a song from him he starts sweating bullets and making excuses, or insisting on playing a song he already knows ghdjskfsd

and HIMIKO CALLING HER DAD MASTER BECAUSE OF FANTASY NOVELS... That's so silly to me I can totally see it. She's the best and so so committed to her aesthetic

Shuichi sucking at chess is also ridiculous to me. Kokichi tries to play chess with him once and wins like wayyy too easily. At first he thinks maybe he's trying to let him win? to be nice? before it slowly dawns on him that no he's just that fucking bad at chess

[hallmark-movie-fanatics]

Hallmark Sets 'June Weddings,' Lacey Chabert and 'Aurora Teagarden' Films for June: See Schedule (ETOnline Exclusive)

HALLMARK CHANNEL'S "JUNE WEDDINGS" All premieres are at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

Wedding Season Starring: Stephanie Bennett and Casey Deidrick  Premieres: Saturday, June 3 Trish (Bennett) is a journalist who is on back-to-back bridesmaid duty for her three best friends. When her date is unable to join, she pairs up with photographer Ryan (Deidrick), the brother of her best friend.

Love's Greek to Me Starring: Torrey DeVitto, Giannis Tsimitselis and Marina Sirtis Premieres: Saturday, June 10  When Ilana (DeVitto) travels to Santorini with her Greek boyfriend Mike (Tsimitselis) for his sister Alex’s (Katerina Konstas) wedding, she’s thrilled to be asked to be her American Maid of Honor. Mike surprises Ilana by proposing, leaving Ilana gets caught in the whirlwind created by his well-meaning and overly enthusiastic mother Athena (Sirtis).

The Wedding Contract Starring: Becca Tobin and Jake Epstein Premieres: Saturday, June 17  Rebecca (Tobin), a teacher, and Adam (Epstein), an ad executive are excited to plan their Jewish wedding, but their wedding and future are put into jeopardy when Adam lands a new ad campaign, and their mothers meet for the first time. 

Make Me a Match  Starring: Rushi Kota and Eva Bourne Premieres: Saturday, June 24 Vivi (Bourne), an optimistic woman with a substandard romantic history, works at a data-driven matchmaking app.  Once she discovers that the success rate for matches at her company is low, she hires Raina (Rekha Sharma), an Indian matchmaker, to provide advice on how to improve their numbers. As they embark on this matchmaking journey, Vivi meets Raina’s spontaneous son, Bhumesh (Kota), and questions whether finding love is something one must take control of or let naturally come to them.

HALLMARK MOVIES & MYSTERIES All premieres are at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

The Dancing Detective: A Deadly Tango Starring: Lacey Chabert and Will Kemp Premieres: Friday, June 2 Filmed entirely on location in Malta. Sparks fly when a no-nonsense detective (Chabert) must reluctantly team up with a charismatic British dance star (Kemp) in order to solve a murder, literally one step at a time, at a stunning luxury resort in Malta!

Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Something New Starring: Skyler Samuels, Evan Roderick and Marilu Henner Premieres: Friday, June 9 Aurora Teagarden (Samuels) is back home in Lawrenceton post-college near her mother, Aida (Henner). Working as a teacher’s assistant in a crime fiction class, Aurora is struggling to settle on a thesis for her post-graduate degree. To support her schooling and life, Aurora also waitresses at the local diner at night, where she shares her love of researching true crime with her friend Sally and police officer Arthur (Roderick). When Sally’s fiancé doesn’t show up at their wedding rehearsal, maid of honor Aurora gets Arthur to help her search for him. When they discover a body, everyone assumes it is Sally’s tardy groom, but when it turns out to be someone else, Sally’s fiancé becomes the main suspect.

To read the full article at ET Online click this LINK.

[cadeahub]

Meet Ezekiel Marco!

Ezekiel Marco is 19 years old and was born to a Massachusetts family. Ezekiel’s family is ethnically jewish thanks to his mother. Due to his father’s irish side, he would have red curly hair, but would have brown eyes and is "very white" as he himself has described. Ezekiel is a community college student studying to be an electrician and currently works in construction. He enjoys rap music, dungeons and dragons and tango dancing. Ezekiel does have someone he admires, but is too sarcastic and stubborn to admit he does. Fun fact about Ezekiel is that his dialogue is the dialogue I quote the most, and accidentally has more one liners than the rest of the characters. 

[pargolettasworld]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPiD9ABCVkk

Sabina’s letter bears a strong resemblance to the Letter from Kamilla, which we heard a few months ago.  They’re both letters from women who did not survive the Holocaust, and who knew they wouldn’t.  Here, Sabina Goldman writes her last letter to her friend Molly Applebaum explaining why she won’t be joining Molly and her cousin Helen in hiding.

This song is part of a project called Silent Tears: The Last Yiddish Tango, a collaboration between social worker Paula David, who works with Holocaust survivors, music producer Dan Rosenberg, and the Payadora Tango Ensemble.  This album focuses specifically on the experiences of women survivors; Molly Applebaum’s memoirs inspired five of the songs on the album, including this one.  The songs show not just the impact of the Holocaust on Jews, but the extra layer of impact on Jewish women.  Molly Applebaum’s experience of being buried in a wooden box for two years involved . . . well, some extra indignities that she might have been spared had she been Moishe Applebaum instead.  You can read more about this project here.

[daz4i]

top 5 songs uve been listening to currently?

thank you!!! ^o^🖤

this one's in no particular order bc it really does change by the hour:

1. the masochism tango - tom lehrer. i'm normal btw and so are my views on romance :)

2. fake land - fake type. it fucks so severely (also has elements that remind me of old jewish songs which is fun)

3. laplace's angel (hurt people? hurt people!) - will wood. it's a really good song that i think i mention every time i do any music ask game but now that i'm obsessed with nikolai i listen to it and think abt him really hard bc it's so him energy on so many levels

4. love from the other side - fall out boy. nothing to say i think you get it

5. this hell - rina sawayama. it's a bop AND it's making me emotional. really good lyrics really good song 🧐

send some top 5/top 10 asks?

[melophobia2013]

[ID:

I see it as my duty to report this lyricism in the whirl of our griefs. It is a personal responsibility for me: My father was a Jewish child in occupied Odessa who not only suffered, but also learned to dance. He was shaved bald so that Germans wouldn’t notice his dark hair. The Russian woman who hid him, Natalia, hid him for three years. It is not an easy thing, to keep a restless child inside for three years. Natalia taught him how to tango. And so they danced for the three years of that war, in a room where the curtains were always drawn. Once, he escaped outside to play and the German soldiers saw him, so he ran to the market and hid behind boxes of tomatoes. All my friends tell me there are too many tomatoes in my poems. They say there is too much dancing. Is there enough? I don’t know.

/end ID]

Ilya Kaminsky, “Still Dancing: An Interview with Ilya Kaminsky”