aph-japan reblogged
Roots
“So you have Russian roots?”
Roots?
I guess, as much as anyone can be rooted to the place they ran from.
Roots?
My great-grandfather didn’t have citizenship to the place he was born
Because of how his family held “G-d” on their tongues, due to how his race was marked as “Hebrew”
No one cares if you believe and besides, you’re the one on trial here, you’re always the one on trial,
Define birthplace as “where you flee from” and asylum as “sea/homesick”
Roots?
#glassheartedboy#jewish tag#jewish#jewish issues#jewish poetry#jewish writeblr#jewish writers#jewish community#jewish history#antisemitism#russia#ancestors#europe antisemitism#*Goyim Do Not Derail Please#(My Jewish family's not specifically from Russia)#(but this)#(is A Feeling)#(that is incredibly hard to explain and describe)#diaspora#jewish diaspora#jewish americans#jewish american diaspora#genocide#holocaust#wwi#wwii#pogroms#(It's one thing if someone kind is asking genuinely not Knowing what all could have happened but Many People Do Not Ask This Kindly)#(As I again have very recently learnt)
