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Clarification of a point that I think needs to be clarified: there are Jewish actors who get leads. But they’re not VISIBLY Jewish. They don’t discuss their religion, or their culture.
If your character is announced as Jewish, you’re either a totally assimilated and undifferentiated white person with no shred of Jewish culture or observance ever (The Goldbergs, Seinfeld), or a double-dealing murderous spy (Quantico, Homeland, Munich), or it’s the Holocaust (this includes Magneto), or you’re there to be awkward, sex-obsessed, neurotic, and ugly.
jewish women where it is known they are jewish you’ve got nothing totally assimilated with comment here and there, but other then that totally white and hear nothing about anything related to jewishness (annie-community felicity-arrow), crazy sex-crazed slut who is super kinky, overbearing crazy mother who makes son crazy especially with germs and health related stuff, cold frigid fish in bed, or bitch who who is money and power hungry who has parasitic relationships with rich powerful men.
of course there are some that hit several of these types
Jews in the media also serve as more subtle race-coding when whiteness wants to find a scapegoat that can fly under the radar as politically acceptable, but still palatable to a resentment-filled white audience. It’s a very weird liminal space - whiter than PoC, but not truly part of the club, and the first out the proverbial door whenever convenient for whiteness to reassert itself and its boundaries.
And the whole reason white or white-passing Jews even occupy this liminal rung is because of how easy it is to pass - a privilege that visible PoC do not have access to, and yet paradoxically, exactly what racists fear from Jews. Racists are obsessed with “sneaky” Jews “polluting the white race” because the existence of this (diverse, widespread) ethnic minority, many of whom look just like everybody else (and who that “everyone else” is often depends on your geographic locale, but in the case of white bigots, this is “mostly white and olive-ish skin tones in European countries or colonies thereof”) proves that race as a social construct is complete bullshit. Racists feel threatened in their identity as white people (and therefore superior) when they can’t easily pinpoint the Jewish interloper. That’s why “Jewish features” ie common phenotypes in our ethnic group are so racialized.
I wouldn’t say that Jews are never exoticized. La belle juive is a very old trope (that you still see today), and there’s the whole recent meme of calling Jewish men “ugly hot”, acting like finding them attractive is in some way transgressive
Now feels like a great time to mention a favorite movie of mine: Guns & Moses. It is about a chabad couple taking their communities security into their own hands. It’s much deeper than that, but I think it’s one of the best representations of Judaism in film that I’ve seen. It doesn’t shy away from the beauty nor the violence we face. It gives characters chances to change. It was written and directed by a Jewish guy, and the female lead also plays Jo(?) in Supernatural (whoever the blonde girl who shows up in season 1 is and is the daughter of the bar owner). Did you know that actress was Jewish? She is!
it is taking so much effort for me not to become parasocial about Tom Holland and Zendaya. I have never been one for getting obsessed over real people and real relationships but oml they are so cute together. Someone needs to smack some sense in to me.
The Bunch of Friends blind, deaf, mute, arctic meme but Robert Pattinson characters. My pitches are Antinous in the arctic aka Hades, Cedric Diggory as blind, and Edward Cullen as mute. I’d say either Mickey or Batman could be the other one, I was mainly thinking Mickey. Also, the only movies of this list that I’ve watched are the Odyssey and Harry Potter.
Jane Yolen was a Jewish-American children’s author, poet, and young adult novelist. Yolen wrote more than 400 books for children and adults,
If you didn’t become acquainted with the work of Jane Yolen as a student being assigned her famous, award-winning Holocaust time travel nove
If you didn’t become acquainted with the work of Jane Yolen as a student being assigned her famous, award-winning Holocaust time travel novella “The Devil’s Arithmetic,” it’s likely you will once you become a parent, reading one of her many, many, many books for kids. My young boys are especially partial to her “How Do Dinosaurs?” series with its captivating, realistic dinosaur illustrations and snappy, funny text (and yes, there’s a Hanukkah “How Do Dinosaurs” book).
The prolific children’s book author, who was the recipient of multiple children’s book awards and six honorary doctorates, passed away this week at age 87. She was just about to release her 450th book. “Monsters of Fife: Terror Birds” will come out posthumously on July 14.
Yolen wasn’t raised particularly Jewish, and her exposure to religion was mostly at relatives’ homes, she recounted in a piece for the Jewish Book Council. As a teen, she did become fascinated with Jewish texts and traditions, getting confirmed at her local Reform synagogue; she was one of the first girls to read from the Torah on the bimah at that temple. And she minored in religious studies at Smith College.
But it took a while for Judaism to become part of her children’s book-writing career. In fact, she was two decades into her career when she got “noodged” into writing Jewish tales.
It all happened in the 1980s, she wrote in her essay for the Jewish Book Council: “One of my editors, who happened to be a rabbi’s wife, asked me why I had never written a Jewish book. And I had to think long and hard about that. And she noodged. Boy! Was she an expert noodge. The result was ‘The Devil’s Arithmetic.’ And then the Jewish stories began to tumble out.”
The books that came tumbling out were as gripping and wonderful and magical as the rest of her oeuvre.
There came magical stories about Jews and dragons and golems (co-written with her son, Adam Stemple).
She published illustrated books about Miriam and other biblical women (and even the children’s book adaptation of the famous “Prince of Egypt”).
She came up with her own twist on the tales of the Wise Men of Chelm.
She perhaps became most known for her three young adult tomes that tackle the Holocaust in novel ways. She wrote the “Sleeping Beauty” inspired “Briar Rose” and the “Hansel and Gretel”-esque “Mapping the Bones.” And of course, she penned the Nebula Prize Winning “The Devil’s Arithmetic,” about a Jewish teen who finds herself transported to 1942 Poland, which continues to be taught in schools to this very day, even as one Texas school district pulled it out of the curriculum for AI-detected “DEI content.” The book was famously turned into a 1999 film starring Kirsten Dunst, Brittany Murphy, Paul Freeman and Mimi Rogers.
Yolen also wrote books about Jewish holidays: “Milk and Honey,” and the lovely “Jewish Tale Feasts” (with her daughter, author Heidi Stemple), a book that my Jewish food-loving family adores.
Heidi, Adam and their brother Jason were all by their mother’s side when she “passed gently with no pain or stress,” Heidi shared on Instagram. Adam was playing his music while Heidi read from her mother’s book “Owl Moon.”
“As you all probably know, she had one of the most brilliant creative minds of our time,” Heidi wrote of her mother. “She has mentored, inspired and nurtured so many authors and illustrators through her words both on the page and off. But, beyond that, she was our mother and grandmother.”
May Jane Yolen’s memory be for a blessing; her books will certainly remain part of our lives for a long, long time.
Dana International is an Israeli pop singer and LGBTQ+ rights advocate. In 1998, she became the first transgender artist to win the Eurovision song contest. She has performed at many pride events and has advocated for LGBTQ+ rights in Israel and abroad.
every day this month I will be posting about queer Jews you should know!
Ted in college: sigh.. I really need to ask Jenny out. Boy, I sure do like her! She’s so great… I love her, even… wow.. Jenny…
Pete in high-school: alright so we dismembered the body and now all my friends are dropping like brutally murdered flies, surely summoning gods will help. why does the yellow one immediately know who I am. ok so Steph you have to kill me it’s fine I’ve lived a good life.
I’m looking into Commedia Dell’Arte for some art fight ocs and I knew that one of the characters is the harlequin because of an episode of Poirot, but I learned that another name for harlequin is Arlecchino. And there are other characters like il Dottore and Pantalone. There’s also La Signora and Scaramuccia, the male and female character type of il Capitano.
So basically the Genshin team named like half the Harbingers after these characters.
I love Shayne’s little smirk in the second clip. He looks at them with such a warm level of exasperation. It’s like he’s saying “oh Damien, you’re so obvious”
also, his reaction in the third clip is purely just “what the fuck”
why does this look like Angela is the one who wrote the note and that the note is talking about Damien? It reads like a comic panel. Someone asks her biggest mistake ever, she responds, and she’s looking at the guy she’s talking about.
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