(((I Will Outlive)))

— Simcha Weinstein, Up, Up, and Oy Vey! How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero (x)

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The back gate of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fostat, Cairo, Egypt, 1985.

inside the Old New Synagogue, Prague ( Czech Republic). (July 2016)

built around 1270, one of the few original medieval (not destroyed and rebuilt) synagogues in Europe. Still in use.

when was the last time we saw kate with her star of david and hair even resembling curly??

Murano glass Judaica. Italy, XIX-XX century.

The uniqueness of this collection, which has been formed for a long time, lies in the fact that all items intended for synagogue events and domestic rituals are made of glass - a material that has not been used in Judaica, unlike metal, in wide demand. Due to the fragility of the material and the destruction of Jewish ritual objects during the WWII, such things are few and far between and are extremely rare in collections.

y'know, a few years ago I was in Murano. I got to talking to a glass shop owner after I asked him about some Judaica he was selling, because I wondered if there were any Jewish artists working there. "Well, no," he said, "but did you know that Venice was the first city in the world to give Jews land?" which confused me, because what does that mean, to give land to? Jews have lived in most places and belonged to most countries, we don't say Paris "gave land to" the French.

he meant ghetto. the Venice ghetto was the first established in the world. the term ghetto comes from the Venetian geto, meaning foundry, the area Jews were forced to live in beginning in 1516.

we only "give land to" people we don't consider as belonging to the land to begin with. to ignore the exile of people from their homes and couch it in terms of giving ignores why they needed such a "gift", if it can be called that. it belies the insidious and widespread belief that Jews do not and have not belonged to the land, regardless of how many years they have lived there (for instance, Jews have been recorded as living in Italy specifically since 200 BCE).

there are fewer than 500 Jews left in Venice, none of whom made the Judaica I saw, or the little "charming" rabbi caricatures in the windows. but that glass shop owner was perfectly happy to take my money, and proud of the fact that Venice was the first city in the world to "give" Jews land. I'm too sick right now to weave my ends into something coherent, but in these times of endless debates and fights and bloodshed over what it all comes back to, land, I keep remembering this and feeling vaguely nauseous.

if i had a daughter i would much rather see this than her marry a racist white dude

Reblog to support this interracial Jewish couple who have seized the means of production.

Nidje Israel Synagogue, Mexico City, Mexico. Photos by Gustavo Thomas.

Altar de Sinagoga Judía en la Ciudad de México. La primera sinagoga ashkenazi de judíos provenientes de Europa Oriental construida en la Ciudad de México. Hoy abierta al público como museo en la Calle Justo Sierra 71, centro Histórico. #sinagoga #ashkenazi #judios #jews #mexico #mexicocity #synagogue #centrohistorico #centrohistoricodf #amazing #df #arquitectura #arquitecturamx (en Sinagoga Histórica Justo Sierra)

Vista interior de la sinagoga Maguen David, esquina de Jorge Bernard Shaw y Presidente Masaryk Polanco, México DF 1965

Arq. Guillermo Hume y Ing. David Serur

Diseño de interiores de Mathias Goertiz y Julian Farah

Interior view of the Maguen David Synagogue, Polanco, Mexico City 1965

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