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Happy Sukkot! 🍋🌴🌿

I just found out that Howard Shore, who wrote the LotR music, is Jewish, so here's the Riders of Rohan music in MY VERY OWN SUKKAH I made my own for the first timeeeeee 🤗🤗🤗 aaa

pancake-angst

You are SO COOL

shiraglassman

Thank you! 🥰🥳

aka-maayan

this is my favorite song from my favorite movie in my favorite film trilogy

typhlonectes

taylorinthetardis

Frodo said Fuck the Police

thesaddestchorusgirlintheworld

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (2019)

vetmedirl

This woman’s work changed the way we see ourselves in America.

lazarusemma

can anyone rec something with a jewish character who is:

explicitly confirmed within the canon to be jewish

by more than just a last name or a line about “bar mitzvah,” “rabbi,” or “chanukah”

thanks i’m very tired of disappointment

lazarusemma

hey liking this post does nothing

strandedstmarkscitylights

Books:

Why We Came to the City by Kristopher Jansma (novel)

Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman (novel)

The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner (YA novel)

Becoming Eve by Abby Chava Stein (memoir)

Shylock is My Name by Howard Jacobson (novel)

Kaddish.com by Nathan Englander (novel)

Daniel Deronda by George Elliot (novel)

Jerusalem: A Family Portrait by Boaz Yakin (graphic novel)

The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant (novel)

City of Thieves by David Benioff (YA novel)

macrolit

myjetpack

for the @guardian review

tinynebula

i love to headcanon steve as this aggressively progressive dude but like, he begged to be part of the us army,,,,,, we can’t just Forget That

starkillerrx

He joined to literally fight Nazis the fuck you on about?

thadeeliv

Minecraft lore is deeper than i remember

vivid-escapist

he was also like 20 and the Internet didn’t exist so besides the fact that fighting the Nazis was one of the few good things the military has ever done, just mayhaps Steve wasn’t fully briefed on the sins of US militarism and imperialism

afronerdism

I love that y’all think tha white people in the army in WWII joined to fight the evils of the Nazi party and not because of nationalism. The US sent minorities back to Germany to be gassed and only got involved after Germany threatened us.

cardentist

captain america was created by joe simon and jack kirby, two jewish second generation immigrants. you can argue about what the character has come to represent culturally today but it’s absolutely insensitive to erase what the character was supposed to represent for the creators at the time.

hell this is the image on jack kirby’s wikipedia page next to the “entry into comics” section

it was absolutely a political statement, and one that positioned america against fascism, against antisemitism, which is more than we can say for some modern media or even the orange stain running our country

apersnicketylemon

I would also like to add, he was introduced, like this, while the USA was not in the war, and was selling weapons to Germany -among other things. It was a very dangerous, very unpopular statement to make at the time. People love to do the ‘punch Hitler’ thing now, but when Captain America was first released with this cover, this was an extremely controversial statement.

Captain America was created in direct response to how the USA was reacting to the war at the time as a direct call to action against injustice specifically. Created by two Jewish men who were very much affected by all of this. They specifically designed him to look like he did because that was the ““Aryan Ideal”“ as part of that statement. That is why they made him blond, blue-eyed, white, tall, and muscular. They also called him ‘Captain America’ to implicitly tie the United States to this statement. This was a metaphor of ‘The USA has to stop letting others be hurt, it’s time to step up and do something’.

It’s not only insensitive to erase that, it’s Antisemitic to call a Jewish-made character that was a political statement against antisemitism in the 1940′s by people who were fed up with watching their loved ones die while people said they ‘shouldn’t get involved’ in a massive, global genocide attempt a ‘symbol of military industrial complex imperialism and nationalism’ when he was made as a symbol of resistance and a call to fight fascism and antisemitism.

ryuutchi

Has anyone mentioned yet that American fascists were so pissed about Captain America that some American Nazis showed up at the Marvel offices to “show what Real Americans would do to Captain America”. Jack Kirby literally rolled up his sleeves and would have beaten the shit out of them if they hadn’t run off by the time he got to the lobby.

Like, fuck you if you refuse to accept that JEWISH AMERICANS created a character that is intended to protect Jews and other marginalized groups.