#ussr jews

[cottoncandytrafficcones]

Hey Jumblr,

What are some non-Ashknazi marriage traditions/rituals that y'all do? I was reading up on weddings and a lot of stuff (the bedeken, the walking around the groom) was written to be Ashkenazi tradition. I know a lot about henna, but that's basically it.

[kick-a-long]

So I’ve been celebrating Shabbat for a few months (it’s unbelievably amazing btw, I rest, light candles, I limp through Hebrew but I can feel it getting easier to say and understand, have wine, feel like a winner because no one has killed me this week.) but I don’t always want/make bread. I love bread, I love making it, having bread all week, and braiding it but my husband can’t eat it so one loaf is a lot of bread. But I sometimes wonder if challah is the only option. Putting eggs, honey, and butter in a bread reads as a kind of cake to me. It also makes sense to me that cake is fitting for celebration and contemplation about the good in life.

My question is: does jumblr know if I can make babka or rugula instead for Shabbat? Can I make gluten free cookies as long as it has over 1/8th oat flour? Maybe even Cinnamon buns fit a lot of the same ingredients as challah? Not to get all rabbinical, but does the Hebrew for what bread you have on Shabbat specify bread as opposed to cakes (which I don’t think was a separate category of food from bread 3000 years ago? The internet says challah started in 15th century Eastern Europe.

The truth is I’m not following a lot of rules for Shabbat anyway, although I try to get close each Friday. I want it to be Jewish, not just a jew making a type of Shabbat type thing on Fridays. so is this: “in for a penny in for a pound” challah is traditional, it must be bread not cake, or is it: as long as you usually do challah you can make cake and treats every once in a while?

[specialagentartemis]

lmao got an anon in my askbox saying “This isn't a debate, historians and academics largely agree that the USSR overall was a good thing, and that the US was the problem.” Buddy they very much do not largely agree that the USSR was a good thing. Regardless of what you personally think, regardless of if the US was also causing global geopolitical problems in this time period (it was, I’m not denying it), “the USSR was good for its citizens” is very much not a thing historians and academics are largely in agreement about.

[nesyanast]

Margarita Iosifovna Aliger (October 7 1915 – August 1, 1992) was a Soviet poet, translator, and journalist. She was born in Odessa in a family of Jewish office workers.

The main themes of her early poetry were the heroism of the Soviet people during industrialization and during World War II. Her most famous poem is "Zoya" (1942), about Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, a young girl killed by Nazis. This work was one of the most popular poems during the Soviet era. From 1940 to 1950, the poetry of Aliger was characterised by a mix of optimistic semi-official verses ("Leninskie mountains", 1953), and poems in which Aliger tried to analyse the situation in her country in a realistic way ("Your Victory", 1944 - 1945).

In 1956, in a gathering of Khrushchev with the intelligentsia he admonished the writers for interfering with the political system. It is noted that Aliger was the only writer to speak up against him at the event. It was after his retirement that he apologized to her for his behavior. Aliger wrote numerous essays and articles about Russian literature and her impressions on travelling ("On poetry and poets", 1980; "The return from Chile", 1966).

[kaamosnoita]

Yearly Reminder the Hammer&Sickle / Russian army symbols don't belong in Pride

[proustianlesbian]

I think a lot about these pictures of Boris Volynov (Борис Волынов) that i found last month 💙 !!

And these ones when he received the Order of Gagarin on the 17th January 2024 :

If you don't know, Boris Volynov is the first Jewish cosmonaut and unfortunately the last member of the first group of cosmonauts created in March 1960 who is still alive.

also the picture of the parachute training in color that i found just yesterday :

he is one of my favorite cosmonauts, i love him so much, i really hope that one day i can meet him to tell him how he inspired me when i was little and still does now ✡️💙🌌 !!

[smonk-wonk]

how are you a holocaust survivor if you're POC?

I'm not a Holocaust survivor I'm 25?

I'm gonna guess you mean descended from Holocaust survivors & victims. In which case it's really sad that you think this way firstly? POC and non Jewish people did in fact die during the holocaust and many were targeted for not fitting the Nazis' idea of the "superior Aryan race".

From The Holocaust Encyclopedia: "When Adolf Hitler and the Nazis came to power in 1933, there were several thousand Black people living in Germany. The Nazi regime discriminated against them because the Nazis viewed Black people as racially inferior. During the Nazi era (1933–1945), the Nazis used racial laws and policies to restrict the economic and social opportunities of Black people in Germany. They also harassed, imprisoned, sterilized, and murdered an unknown number of Black people."

Also contrary to what some believe, and this may sound farfetched and I hope you're sitting down but bear with me- some people are actually more than one race. Some people are POC and white. We call this being biracial. Or in grade school, being an "Oreo". A mutt if they really want to dehumanize you

But while my relatives weren't targeted for their skin color as they were white, many people were. Black Germans and other POC did exist, were murdered and traumatized, and have passed down that generational trauma. Just as other persecuted populations even if it was much less it was no less a part of the genocide and ethnic cleansing.

[the-sea-anemone]

not to complain about my best friend the internet archive that i love very much but. why are the scans of this book such terrible quality :(

[leroibobo]

Hi, I was wondering, why did you tag the sword from Dagestan with "Persian Jews?"

dagestan's jews were descendants of jews who got to the area from the sassanian empire sometime in the fourth century. their "diaspora language" is juhuri, a jewish dialect of the iranian tat language.

"persian jews" is my catch-all tag for jews who live/d in or went elsewhere after having lived in persia, sort of like "ashkenazi" or "sephardic". there's no actual term for it nor an associated religious rite they all share. most iranian-speaking jews lived within modern-day iran (a huge and culturally/linguistically diverse part of the world in itself), but many also ended up in the caucuses and central asia.

(and yes, i’m aware that “persian” is a subset of “iranian”, but “iran” is the current-day country and i’d rather not confuse anyone.)

[ketrindoll]

According to uncovered Soviet government documents, presented by Lithuanian Jew, professor and educator Misha Yakob, Soviets/russians were planning a new wave of exiles aimed directly at remaining Lithuanian Jews in 1953.

Lithuania had a huge pre-WW2 Jewish community due to lack of persecutions that they faced elsewhere, such as russian Pogroms. Nazis murdered most of them, then half or more of the survivors, such as Abba Kovner, moved to Israel post-war. But few that remained did not find peace as long as Stalin was alive, facing deadly deportations to Siberian camps.

Another wave of deportations, planned in 1953, was supposed to trim those numbers to a near zero, cattle wagons stood in Naujoji Vilnia train station waiting to be filled with people.

And then Stalin died. So nothing came of it.

So, next time you claim that Soviets are "better", "not anti-semitic", next time you call Stalin "daddy" please know that you're no better than nazis and kindly go f yourself.

[twyrrinren]

Sometimes I think that the Soviet project was a collective delirious dream/nightmare, because what do you mean they established the Jewish Autonomous Oblast with Yiddish and Russian as the official languages. (And right now the population of the Oblast consists of 90% Russians and 1% Jews.)

[rotzaprachim]

A popular post providing screenshot evidence of Hamas not being so bad has a reblog addition providing corroborating evidence from a website linking to the daily stormer. The daily stormer is a far-right Neo-Nazi publication advocating for white nationalism and in favor of violent antisemitism, Islamophobia, misogyny and racism. They are not part of a decolonial movement. They do not have your interests at heart. (Since I began drafting, this article has been taken down). Here’s the thing. Despite the various strange choices of wording that have proliferated over the last couple days, antisemitism is, at heart, a form of white supremacy, integral to the function of white supremacy as a whole. Antisemitism is a self-legitimizing conspiracy that centers Jewish people at the center of all the worlds’ wrongs, whatever they may be, and obscures critical understandings and interrogations of the structural problems of inequality and oppression on a global scale. This is why understanding and obliterating antisemitism is integral to the goals of leftism. You should care about fighting antisemitism because you care about Jews. That should fucking happen. You should care about Jews. But I fundamentally think that a lot of goyim, particularly goyim of color, do not understand their own skin in the game in the fight against antisemitism. It is an ideology profoundly linked and in many cases inseparable from racism, and we cannot stand in this struggle alone.

[psychologeek]

Double Standards (light it up):

You know, in light of everything going on in Colombia U and Harvard, etc., I wonder -

They say harassing random people and murder and rape and the vandalism of (everything Jewish) is ok, bc it's "retaliation".

Continue this line of thoughts, does it mean I get Carte Blanche to burn a local mosque?

After all, my family had been oppressed for wayyy more than 75 years under the Yemeni occupation. We were exiled and had to flee for our lives. My grandma told me stories about their journey, the little she remembers. She nearly died.

(we think she had a brother who did)

Also, does it mean I'm allowed to go and beat up anyone wearing a cross?

I mean, my other grandma's cousins were murdered by Christians in Auschwitz-Birkenau (her grandad survived and came to live with them in Israel after the holocaust. But that's another story.)

*for the record - idk how your family things go, but I met most of this grandma's cousins and can name/give a detail about at least half of them. Also just last weekend we talked about her aunt that died as her refugee's ship broke halfway through the journey to Israel. I know this story and the ship name and the aunt and her kids since I was a kid. So yes, those memories are part of my life.)

And I guess people shouldn't be able to talk Spanish in public. After all, we all Know what They did in 1492.

But why going back so much?

There's exile of Jews from Iran in the 70s. But you'll never hear about it.

You'll never hear about the way we were kicked from Afghanistan and Lybia and Tunisia (where, btw, a mob burnt down an ancient synagogue this very year.)

No one's talking about how jews were kicked out of Egypt.

(this is how ppl sound. If that make you think "well, actually -"then, why isn't it never applied to us?)

[adlibitur]

I probably havent complained as much here, but one of the massive reasons I left instagram is seeing triple digit thousands followers internet leftists sharing/pinning literal things from the protocols of the elders of zion as "someone needs to be talking about this truth!" in combo with the fun thing leftists always do before they persecute Jews such as comments about "attacking the zionists where they live" (when talking about random jewish civilians not even in israel) and "zionists control the media" and how what happened in russia was "good pushback against genocidal settlers" like greeeeat (sarcasm) to see the horseshoe theory works perfectly for antisemitism.

[nesyanast]

Jewish Soviet Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War 2.

With five solo victories, she claimed up to twelve solo victories and two to four shared kills in 66 combat sorties. In about two years of operations, she was the first female fighter pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft, the first of two female fighter pilots to have earned the title of fighter ace and the holder of the record for the greatest number of kills by a female fighter pilot. She was shot down near Orel during the Battle of Kursk as she attacked a formation of German aeroplanes.

When she shot down a Bf 109 G-2 "Gustav" on the tail of her squadron commander, Raisa Beliaeva, the Bf 109 was piloted by a decorated pilot from the 4th Air Fleet, commanded by General Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen (a distant relative of the Red Baron), the 11-victory ace, staff Sergeant Erwin Maier of the 2nd Staffel of Jagdgeschwader 53. Maier parachuted from his aircraft, was captured by Soviet troops, and asked to see the Russian ace who had outflown him. When he was taken to Litvyak, he thought he was being made the butt of a Soviet joke. It was not until Litvyak described each move of the fight to him in perfect detail that he knew he had been shot down by a woman pilot.

[basingstokemercury]

So uh

Does communism not have any symbols aside from the hammer and sickle?