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welcome to the blog! <3 i'm a 24 year old jewish socialist of polish descent living in scotland.

i made this blog as a companion to my irl journey of reconnecting to judaism and jewish culture. my goal is to continue the reading and learning i've been doing over the past few years, and this blog is a nice way to discover new ideas and keep track of my own readings/findings. i especially want to engage with diaspora thinking, history, and culture, as well as reform/progressive jewish religious ideas. i also want this to be a nice space for fellow diasporist jews to connect!

as a postgraduate, i worked on anti-colonial solidarity in eastern europe, and a lot of this organically involved quite a lot of jewish history and thought. however, i am not a historian, i'm a politics/sociology scholar - i make mistakes, and i greatly appreciate added context or corrections made in good faith. in general, please feel free to message me about anything, i love talking to people! that being said, i don't reply to provocative or hate asks, they go straight in the bin.

much of this blog runs on queue - if i don't reply to your messages but keep posting, that's why! i also have adhd and forget to reply sometimes.

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shtetl routes

gliklofhameln

Bronze stamp seal with Menorah and shofar, southern Levant or Syria, 4th–7th century CE.

ketubahring

Happy Shavuot 🌾💛

Celebrating the harvest, abundance, and our beautiful community. Thankful for all the little traditions that bring us back to each other every year. Chag sameach! 🥰

aprettyjewishyear

Shavuot - The Harvest. acrylic on canvas by Harry Lieberman, 1974. born in the shtetl Gniewoszów in the Pale of Settlement, Lieberman immigrated to the United States in 1906. he began painting when he was seventy-six years old and continued to paint for the rest of his life, inspired primarily by Jewish history, religion, and mysticism.

i spent the last few days staying at a friend’s place. she lives in a jewish quarter in a major city. and it’s genuinely so incredible to be in this alcove of jewish community - every shop has a huge kosher section, most signboards are in the local language and in hebrew, and there are just so many visibly jewish people. not just adults preserving their culture like i’m used to, but children too - so many joyful jewish children!!! it’s absolutely wonderful but i always have this extremely bittersweet feeling when im here because my hometown - which used to be a shtetl before ww2 - could be like this too. instead, there’s only statues of burned synagogues and a few blurry photos.

#mine #idk guys

hillsofspices

cover of the yiddish novel העכער פון דער ערד (higher than the earth) by דער נסתּר (der nister), published 1910. cover by depner. (x)

bartlomiejbara

Podróże w czasie Leżajsk 2026/Adar 5786

gliklofhameln

Hanukkah lamp, Germany, 18th–early 19th century.

The lamp’s stepped base bears the German inscription “To the children of the Danzig Synagogue Congregation / Simon Anker / Hanukkah 5696 [or, 1935].” Anker was a prominent grain merchant and a synagogue official. The Jewish community of Danzig, however, was only able to enjoy this Hanukkah lamp for four years. In 1939 the Germans overran Danzig, and the community members were coerced to leave; they sent their precious synagogue objects to the Jewish Museum.

#i have family in gdansk/danzig :((#this makes me so emotional

neshamama

a prayer of gratitude

sch-uwu-lchen

[ID: image of hebrew text detailing the bracha (jewish blessing) for seeing exceptionally strange-looking people or animals:

בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יהֵוָהֵ, אֱלהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעולָם מְשַנֶּה הַבְּרִיּוֹת Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha-olam, m’shaneh ha-briyot. Blessed are You, HaShem* our G-d, Sovereign of the Universe, who makes creatures different.]

sorry i accidentally reblogged my hockey boy with a poem like he’s a troubled character in a tv show onto this blog instead of my main. happy passover macklin

#mine