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🧿 Uriel. Sephardic and Ashky. Place for Jewish joy 🧿 Icon is my grandmother's hamsa necklace. Header is a mosaic from an early diasporic synagogue.

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[hiddurmitzvah]

Making the challah for shabbat, by an elderly jewish woman in Munkács (Ukraine), sometime in the 1980's. photo by Miklós Rékai

[urielthegolem]

Wooden Synagogue in Voupa (Wołpa), Belarus | Built 18th century | Period: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Photo by Alois Breyer 1910-1913

[hiddurmitzvah]

Old Jewish Cemetery in Vilnus, Lithuania (1920's)

[hillbillybubbeleh]

Hi keziah! Your answer about Jewish folklore inspired me to ask, do you have any book and author recommendations for Jewish folklore collections? And also I'd asked before but I think it's been buried in your inbox lol, but do you have any recs for Jewish children's books for my nephews (they also love supernatural and fantasy themes)? Thank you! -🍒

Oops! I'm sorry I didn't get to your original ask. Things do get buried in there lol.

For Jewish folklore:

Howard Schwartz has several award-winning collections of Jewish folklore, which are a joy to read, including 'Leaves from the Garden of Eden;' 'Elijah's Violin;' 'Lilith's Cave: Jewish Tales of the Supernatural;' 'Tree of Souls: the Mythology of Judaism;' and so many more. I definitely recommend any of those works.

Yiddish Folktales - Beatrice Weinreich

Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories - Shalom Aleichem

Jewish Legends of the Middle Ages - Claud Field

Legends of the Jews - Louis Ginzberg (a collection of Midrash that is so very good)

A Treasury of Jewish Folklore - Nathan Ausubel

Pomegranate Seeds: Latin American Jewish Tales - Nadia Grosser Nagarajan

Jewish Folktales - Pinhas Sadeh

Mimekor Yisrael: Classic Jewish Folktales - Micha Joseph Ben Gorion

For Jewish children's books:

Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins - Eric A. Kimmel (I adore this book)

The Golem's Latkes - Eric A. Kimmel (I also adore this one)

The Magic Dreidels - Eric A. Kimmel

The Adventures of Hershel of Ostropol - retold by Eric A. Kimmel

The Keeping Quilt - Patricia Polacco

The Blessing Cup - Patricia Polacco

The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming - Lemony Snicket

Marven of the Great North Woods - Kathryn Lasky

[drguyphoto]

The last photo of mine of the former site of Dublin Hebrew Congregation, Terenure, Dublin, Ireland. This site was sold to developers and the synagogue is being demolished, and in its place housing is being built. This picture was taken on Fujicolor 200 35mm film using a Nikon F80 SLR and Nikkor 50mm f1.4G lens, and developed using Arista C-41 chemistry.

[hiddurmitzvah]

Beyond the Golem & the Dybbuk lies a forgotten world of Jewish magic and folklore myths!

After many preparation we are launching a 50-page, fully illustrated zine exploring the hidden creatures, spirits, and myths of Eastern European Ashkenazi folklore. If you love dark, whimsical lore and handmade art, check it out!

You can grab a digital copy, a premium physical zine, or limited-edition art prints.

Please reblog and support the campaign here:

Jewish Folklore of Eastern Europe Zine by Bence Illyés - Indiegogo

Beyond the Golem and the Dybukk lies a forgotten world of jewish magic. This 50 page, fully illustrated zine unearths the lesser-known creat

[thejewitches]

They told you that Lilith was banished from the Garden of Eden. But they lied.

Lilith is the most controversial of all Jewish figures — and for good reason.

For six years, Jewitches has held her as a no-go topic due to the death threats and bigotry that resulted upon speaking up…but no longer.

Read the full article here.

[nazarjoon]

cypress tree bookmarks 𖠰 available here

silkscreen on french paper (ooo fancy) this design is inspired by the everlasting cypress tree and persian gardens

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[nesyanast]

Scene from the most famous Yiddish play The Dybbuk by the Vilner Trupe. 1910s.

[hiddurmitzvah]

One of the most frightening monsters in the Jewish imagination is the shayd, a shapeshifting demon that assumes the form of a living person. It can transform every part of its body except for its feet, which always retain their original form: a chicken’s claws. The Talmud includes a story about the king of the shaydim (a mountain-dwelling demon named Ashmedai) impersonating the king of the Jews (a castle-dwelling lady-lover named Solomon). The sages of the Sanhedrin determined the impostor’s true identity by asking his queens what the king’s feet looked like when he visited the harem. Their ominous answer: “He never takes off his shoes.” Nearly 2,000 years later, some claimed that Hitler refused to remove a certain pair of boots, especially in his last years, proof that he might have been a shayd. The Talmud explains elsewhere that the shayd’s natural enemy is flour, since the most common way to find out if shaydim are on the haunt is to spread some near the disturbed area. If the marks of chicken feet appear overnight, it means that shaydim are afoot and you better hoof it.

[world-beauty]

A Sagittarius Starscape

Credits: Terry Hancock

[nazarjoon]

some of the nazar items in my shop 🧿

[hillbillybubbeleh]

Hallel (1978) by Bill Aron; gelatin silver print; in From the Corners of the Earth

[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)

[tofupixel]

thanks to the onion of determination i have finished my drawing of the onion of determination 🙏

sketched in aseprite and finished in pixquare (30% off code tofu)

Prints // Merch // Tip Jar // Digital Store // Free Stuff

[tofupixel]

time to get a chungus life

[bialerwochenblat]

A stunning typography in the cover of Blumen (Flowers), a collection of legends by Y.P. Grinberg, Siedlce 1923, The National Library of Poland.