happy hanukkah to PETER PARKER
Well @zawarudio , while he isn’t particularly religious and will participate in Christian celebrations like Christmas, I wouldn’t go as far as to call him Christian. In fact I would go as far as to outright say he’s Jewish
We can start with his constant use of yiddish
Which we can follow up with him participating in the Shavout as well as being shown wearing a Kippa. Which certainly implies more than just a vague familiarity with Judaism
Not to mention that his creator (Stan Lee) was Jewish, and Spiderman is supposed to be the superhero most appliable to Stan Lee himself.
And we can finish with the very direct and definitive answer given by one of Spidermans comic book writers Brian Michael Bendis
It’s so funny to see some of my caps (I underlined that kibitzer myself) in posts with like 40,000 notes in them. I don’t really mind people taking the caps but if people link to the posts next time, I have sources for most of these! General Jewish Peter primer posts:
Hi! I've read most of your Spideytorch tag and every post where you've mentioned Homecoming, and I've gotta ask, why do you think Peter Park
https://traincat.tumblr.com/post/181255248754/can-you-make-a-post-about-peter-parker-being
can you make a post about peter parker being jewish. i’ve already seen people trying to argue that it’s just a headcanon with no basis, and
On the use of Yiddish in Spider-Man specifically and how he deploys it beyond just the occasional word: https://traincat.tumblr.com/post/616689611937300480/kinda-random-but-do-you-have-any-panels-of-peter
kinda random but do you have any panels of peter using yiddish/jewish slang? im tryna prove a point lol Sure, anon, can do. I try to save Pe
Also, one thing to note with the Shavuos panel is that he specifically pronounces it Shavuos and not Shavuot, which displays a familiarity with the specifics of the Ashkenazi vs Sephardic/modern Israeli Hebrew pronunciations. (Shavuos is seen, to simplify this A LOT, as the more old fashioned pronunciation.) So it implies a level of understanding far beyond mentioning what is already a holiday one would not expect someone who isn’t Jewish to know.
















