“they couldn’t make the Maximoffs Jewish because they can’t make any reference to Magneto”
did u kno…. magneto is not the only jewish person in the world……
this is bullshit all my jewish friends are related to magneto
It’s true I am
Me too
also me
ok so
I’ve been holding back but I need to tell you
I too am related to magneto because I am jewish soI feel like I need to step in here and clarify that not every Jewish person is related to Magneto.
Basically, all Jews can be divided into four groups based on tribal ancestry: Cohenim, Levites, Israelites, and Magnetoim. Halachically, only Jews who are descended from Magneto through the paternal line are Magnetoim, although you can become a Magnetoim through marriage. For example, my mother’s family are Levites, but because my paternal grandfather wasn’t Jewish, I was, for most of my life, an Israelite. However, my husband is a Magnetoim, so now I am, as well. When we have children, they will also be Magnetoim.
I hope that explains everything!
Also, if you are a non-genetically Jewish adoptee adopted by Jewish parents OR a genetically Jewish adoptee adopted by non-Jewish parents you’re automatically a Magnetoim. It’s a little known Halachic quirk.
Yeah, the Halacha on this is really wonky, because while adoptees automatically fall under the umbrella of Magnetoim, Gerim are usually designated as Israelites, unless they possess the ability to bend metal at will, in which case, they are halachically Magnetoim by default.
Yup! I remember hearing a d’var Torah on this a few years back. It’s really interesting!
So, uh, what about ethnic Jewish people who can trace their metalbending back to a Bei Fong on the gentile side of their family?
I think it depends on which side you’re inheriting your ability to control metal from. Jewishness is derived from the mother, while lineage is derived from the father. So it depends on a) if the Bei Fong converted, b) if they were male or female and c) if that side of your family it maternal or paternal.
A ger Bei Fong father on the paternal side would mean that you’re inheriting Magnetoim lineage (see above, re: gerim with the ability to control metal). On the other hand the Halacha is a little confused if the metal-control is not inherited from a Jewish parent, because a non-Jewish father usually makes you Israelite by default.
It IS possible to be an Israelite with metal control abilities– although, IIRC, many such modern Jews of liberal bent feel free to identify as Magnetoim out of solidarity. Some conservative Jews frown on that practice because it confuses lineage and might complicate the situation if we ever end up with a new Holy Temple.
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Learning Jewish Languages
So, Jewish languages other than Hebrew are all endangered, and even Hebrew many of us don’t speak. So, in honor of Preservation Day, I’ve gathered a bunch of language resources, and hopefully we’ll be able to learn our heritage languages more easily, as well as Hebrew, both biblical for the Torah, and modern for trips (or flight, as necessary) to Israel.
I’ll start with a request for help from the people who DO know these languages: the website duolingo has both Yiddish and Hebrew projects that need people to help them work. It seems like a very effective language learning site, and it would help us preserve our languages. And if someone capable of doing so started up a Ladino project, or any of the various Judeo-Arabic languages (I apologize, I know basically nothing about them) it would be great!
Next up is My Language Exchange. This is a very versatile site that seems mostly to be about matching up people learning each others’ languages as pen pals. There’s a little bit more structure, but it’s only available for the biggest languages. However, and this is a BIG plus, it has people who speak Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino all, and I’ve had trouble finding any websites that even acknowledge Ladino.
Ancient Hebrew
So, for all that I know nothing about Judeo-Arabic and little about Ladino, Ancient/Biblical Hebrew is pretty mysterious to me. I never went to Hebrew school, so anything here is good. Right now, the only thing I have is a couple of posts from an old, abandoned tumblr (to an extent, it’s been replaced by tumblrs like littlegoythings, returnofthejudai and jewish-privilege)
So, here’s a post about how Hebrew was written and pronounced in ancient times compared to today, and another on German’s influence on Hebrew pronunciation, that might fit better in the next section.
Modern Hebrew
Now, Modern Hebrew, being the language of an actual, geopolitically important country is the easiest to find resources for. In addition to Rosetta Stone, which is quite expensive (though my Dad swears by it, in six months he’s reading Israeli newspapers) there’s a free site run by them, Live Mocha, which includes Hebrew.
Thanks to all the resources available, Hebrew language learning resources have already been collected. A couple of places that do that are Omniglot, Fluent Forever, and Ecott. And then there’s the online parts of the Hebrew programs at UT Austin and Yale.
And then there’s Surface Languages and Transparent, for just straight up language learning.
Yiddish
And now, into the Diaspora! There are tons of Diaspora languages, but not all of them have their own names. The biggest one, though, is Judeo-German, better known now as Yiddish. It’s been a very active language, and had a cultural golden age in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Yiddish Academy collects Yiddish resources that will be helpful whatever path to learning the language you take. For learning, there’s some traditional web courses at eTeacherYiddish, Surface Languages and Transparent.
And then, of course, there’s YiddishPop! I haven’t looked in detail at it, but YiddishPop seems to be all about learning Yiddish in a fun online environmentm, with lots of games and stuff.
Ladino
Ladino, unfortunately, doesn’t have nearly the support that Hebrew and Yiddish do. Fortunately, while I was looking for resources, @concentratedridiculousness responded to me and made a nice big post about Ladino, though most of the resources aren’t online.
Bring me ALL the Jewish Marvel headcanons. Today we need them more than ever.
- Steve Rogers requests a Bar Mitsvah when he gets unfrozen, cause he missed his second one by sleeping through his 83rd year.
- Bucky Barnes was a member of the Bagel Bakers Local 338
- Sam Wilson sits Shiva for Riley
- Peggy Carter’s grave is filled so quickly by her friends and family that they don’t need gravediggers
- Tony Stark sometimes wonders if the Arc Reactor could be marketed to synagogues as a Ner Tamid
- Pepper Potts’ grandfather called her “Peppila”
- The first time Bruce Banner comes back from his transformation, he says the
Shehecheyanu
- In Israel, people call Thor “Makebet” and he is known to get an inordinate number of Hanukkah party invites
- Natasha Romanoff can pull herself out of flashbacks by reciting the shema
- Clint Barton only goes to synagogue on Kol Nidre, and won’t let anyone go with him
- Nick Fury’s hebrew name is Niv Amichai, for his grandfather
THIS IS SUCH A GOOD
- Magneto says the shema when anything vaguely dangerous starts happening. It’s a habit. He recites it under his breathe more out of habit that anything else now, he’s suffered but at least he’s alive. He’s genuinely surprised when he watches Billy do the same thing years later.
- Tommy and Pietro compete to about can read
haggadah passages the fastest so they can get to food sooner.
- Wanda uses her powers to show “animated” versions of the stories to the her and Pietro’s children every holiday.
- Kitty will get vegetarian options if they’re at a non kosher restaurant.
- Robbie Reyes worries for months about whether or not he’s able to step into a shule after becoming the Ghost Rider because he knows Gabe’s Bar Mitzvah is coming up (via @russianspacegeckosexparty )
- Elijah Bradley makes sure to light Yartzeit candles for his grandfather every year.
- Isaiah Bradley is extra proud to be going against Nazis, because he knows he embodies every last thing they hate, and that he will win.
- Kate Bishop had a super fancy Bat Mitzvah party, and no one realizes her favorite part of the whole day was receiving the silver wine glass handed down on her mother’s side.
Hi, I’m Lena and I really love your blog. I have a meta question that I’m not sure where to start looking for the answer. I don’t know if you’ve researched this, but if Bucky’s family had been slightly well-off, maybe lower middle class, where in Brooklyn would they have lived? I’m working on my Stucky Big Bang and I’m writing that Bucky’s mother was Jewish and his father was Catholic, but that he was still raised Jewish. There’s so much Yiddish in my story! I’d really appreciate the help! Best.
Hello friend! Thank you so much, I’m glad you enjoy it :). My apologies for the delayed reply – I recently moved across country and it’s been a time dealing with all the real life stuff.
So first off, yay for Stucky Big Bang and yay for interfaith Barnes family! That’s the way I write them myself, so I didn’t have to research much to answer this question. Yay for all the Yiddish! Do you speak it?? That is super cool, and I am all for multilingual fics. I hope you will send me the link to your story once posted! I would love to read it.
Families immigrating to New York during the relevant time period (you’re most likely talking about direct or first generation immigrant families, as New York City saw its largest wave of immigration between the 1870s through 1924) were likely to spend their first few years in Manhattan, and then make for their respective ethnic enclaves in the outer boroughs (Brooklyn and Queens, primarily, but many made questionable life decisions and moved to Long Island and New Jersey). Jewish families mostly made that trip from the Lower East Side out to Brooklyn neighborhoods like Crown Heights (what was known in the 1930s as Eastern Parkway), Flatbush, Brownsville (probably more lower class than middle), or Williamsburg (definitely more religiously orthodox than secular).
As far as what their homes might have looked like, you’re looking at brownstones in Crown Heights and Flatbush, and tenements in Brownsville and Williamsburg. You can find links to relevant images and descriptions here, and more generally in my master meta post.
Please allow me to point you to some more specific resources! 1940s New York is one of my favorite websites, because it gives a great breakdown for what neighborhoods were called at the time, what they looked like, and the demographic breakdown block by block. To give you some context about how far that median rent could stretch, please check out this excellent meta post.
I have some light reading for you regarding Jewish enclaves, and Brownsville specifically. If you’re looking for some more in depth resources, I recently purchased Jews of Brooklyn and Brownsville: the Jewish Years myself (I can’t vouch 100%, as I haven’t had time to read through them entirely, but they are highly rated). Jews of Brooklyn is somewhat available as an ebook?
Hopefully this is helpful! If you have more questions or are wondering anything specifically, please let me know. If you’d like me to answer something privately, please say so in a message.
Thank you to @dancinbutterfly for the opportunity to clarify: being raised Jewish is not limited to neighborhoods, but very much does include religious traditions. It’s not limited to neighborhoods, food, clothes, etc. The cultural history of Brooklyn is very much tied to Jewish culture, and I welcome anyone reading this to reblog or comment to add their own information, suggestions, resources, etc.
As some of you may or may not know I work in a Jewish hospital that provides rehabilitation and palliative care, and we were provided w this booklet regarding care for holocaust survivors and family members
I thought I might share it since it may be of use to other ppl who care for older Jewish people
Tbh some of this, in particular the first few bullet points, looks broadly useful for talking about trauma and generational trauma even outside the specific context of the Holocaust, and this deserves to be shared around! Thanks for putting it here.
text transcript:
Ten Thoughtful Commandments of Caring for Holocaust Survivors
This is a really useful set of points for not only what it’s explicitly created for (which is in and of itself very important), but yes, also for a *lot* of major trauma, intergenerational trauma and its effects, and also useful to read through and just think about how these things apply to trauma and intergenerational trauma generally (which I promise is actually all around you, wherever you are, and affecting things in ways that one doesn’t notice, really, until one does.) Thank you in particular @kaaramel for the transcript.
Where to Stream High Holiday Services | My Jewish Learning
Hey followers! Can you reblog this? I want it to reach as many Jews as possible. If you could reblog this even if you’re not Jewish I’d appreciate that too, because you probably have followers who are. Also, non-Jews are totally welcome to watch the livestreams too, if you want! Thanks 💙
@vaspider I figure you or some of your followers might appreciate this, considering I’m sure not everyone who wants to go to services can.
I’ve reblogged before but will gladly again. 🙂
“Nothing belongs to us anymore.
They have taken away our clothes, our shoes, even our hair.
If we speak, they will not listen to us.
And if they listen, they will not understand.
They have even taken away our names.My number is 174517. I will carry the tattoo on my left arm
until I die.”Primo Levi, Italian writer, poet and partisan, survived Auschwitz lager.
New England Holocaust Memorial, Boston.
Scan from b/w film, taken with YashicaFX-3
rave sashayed!!!!!! my love!!!! i have a question, which is how do u feel about jewish bucky?? i assume u really like that idea but i’m curious ur feelings anyway because, for myself as a jew, i LOVE jewish bucky (fanfic writers making characters jewish is actually generally like a weird secret pleasure of mine) but i was wondering ur thoughts? do u like it? love it? do u suffer imagining a post-winter soldier seder like i do, with steve and nat and sam and singing dayenu?? <3
welI i think you do already know the answer, my sweet opossum, but to confirm: I LOVE JEWISH BUCKY!!!!! I LOVE JEWISH BUCKY. In fact, now that I have read Jewish Bucky, it seems so obvious and correct that I am shocked not to have assumed it before.
I hope Bucky’s bubbe looked just like my great-great-great-whatever and taught Bucky to swear in Yiddish with such vivid, paint-peeling eloquence that old guys beating him at chess would take their hats off in laughing respect. I hope he taught Steve to do that too. I hope the first thing Bucky told his ma about Steve was that the kid was a twig but damn he had chutzpah and Bucky’s ma gave him a clip on the ear for swearing. I hope Bucky associates candlelight with home, with the gleam of it in his ma’s pinned-back hair, her blue Friday night dress. I hope Bucky only eats Hebrew National hot dogs but it’s because they TASTE better, Steve, come on. (I’m assuming they sold Hebrew National at Ebbetts Field since the owners were Brooklynites but if they didn’t he probably did what he had to – you can’t just NOT EAT HOT DOGS at a baseball game – then put aside some time on Yom Kippur to apologize for eating treif and, you know, probably eating it again in the future tbh.) I hope he brought his ma’s matzoh ball soup over when Steve was sick and MAYBE Mrs. Barnes even gave Sarah Rogers the recipe because it’s literally the best thing when you’re sick and come on, they’re mishpocheh. I hope he tells the longest and funniest ritual grandpa jokes. I HOPE SOMEDAY BUCKY GETS TO HAVE A NICE HOME, JUST A DECENT APARTMENT WITH A HAND-PAINTED MEZUZAH BY THE DOOR BC YOU KNOW HE DIDN’T HAVE A CHANCE TO PUT ONE UP IN BUCHAREST!!! HE KNEW HE WOULDN’T BE THERE FOR LONG, HE HASN’T LIVED ANYWHERE PERMANENT SINCE HE WAS A KID, POOR BUCKY, WHERE DID THESE FEELINGS COME FROM I WANT THEM TO STOP!!!!!
Anyway so yes, obviously I also love thinking about everyone at seder also, especially because think how nice it would be for Wanda!!!! (Plus is there any reason for Natasha not to also be Jewish? There isn’t? Great, cool, Natasha is Jewish now.) (Ant-Man is probably fake Jewish, Jew….ish, half on his dad’s side, like me.) Please imagine that Bucky has forgotten how long it takes to get to the FOOD PARTS of seder and like, the ritual is important, he’s not objecting to that, it’s just that he’s a supersoldier now and he’s HUNGRY. but it’s fine, he’s just getting increasingly cranky and reading really fast. Please feel free also to imagine Sam and Bucky, fully grown adult men, getting INCREDIBLY hostile and competitive about finding the Afikomen that Steve hid slightly too well
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