📝 Plot:
Mina Tannenbaum traces the intense friendship between two Jewish girls who meet in childhood and grow up together in Paris. As they move into adulthood, affection, rivalry, desire, and insecurity begin to strain their bond. Through love affairs and personal struggles, the film explores female identity, emotional dependence, and the painful transition from youthful intimacy to adult independence.
#MinaTannenbaum
#comingOfAge
#friendship
#femaleIdentity
#intimateDrama
#JewishLife
Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 1971.
Returning to one of my favourite photographers on Fortepan, Sándor Kereki, this is an impressive image of the Jewish cemetery in Samarkand.
Source: Fortepan [204761] / Sándor Kereki
# LBI Film Club | Double Feature: Hannah Cohen’s Holy Communion (2013) & The Blond Boy from the Casbah (2023) | Films available free of charge for one week beginning Monday, 19 January 2026
#film #identity #Algeria #jewishlife #Ireland
Details: https://www.lbilondon.ac.uk/events/film-club/blond-boy-casbah-hannah-cohen-holy-communion
"The #BoardofDeputies has officially announced the launch of #JewishCulture Month, a new nationwide celebration set to debut in 2026, with the primary goal of showcasing the diversity, creativity, and contributions of #Jewishlife across the #UnitedKingdom. This momentous event will take place during the #Jewish month of #Sivan (May 16 to June 14, 2026), and registration is now open for event organizers from the Jewish community to participate in this vibrant celebration of #culture, #history, and #heritage."
"#YeshivaUniversity has received a transformative $10 million gift from #philanthropists Ann and Jeremy Pava to create the #PavaCenter for #Women’s #Torah #Scholarship, a groundbreaking initiative advancing high-level #Torahstudy for women across the #Jewish world.
The gift, inspired by the Pavas’ deep commitment to Torah #education and community building, marks a historic milestone in #Yeshiva #University’s enduring mission to empower women as #scholars and leaders in #Jewishlife.
“Our dream has always been to help women pursue Torah learning at the highest levels—because their voices and scholarship are essential to the Jewish future,” said Ann Pava."
Josephine Sarah "Sadie" Earp (née Marcus; 1861 – 1944)
She was the wife of Wyatt Earp the famed Old West lawman. She met Wyatt in 1881 in the frontier town of Tombstone, Arizona, when she was living with Johnny Behan, sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona. She left Behan, who was nearly twice her age, in 1881, before the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. She returned to San Francisco in March 1882 and was joined that fall by Wyatt, with whom she remained for 46 years until his death in 1929. Josephine Earp had his body cremated and buried him in the Marcus family plot in a Jewish cemetery
Josephine Marcus was born in New York to a Jewish family. They moved to San Francisco, where she attended dance school as a girl. She ran away as a young teen traveling to Arizona looking for adventure. Sadie kept this period of her life a secret but there js evidence that she may have been forced to work as a prostitute under the name Sadie Mansfield. She described this period as 'A bad dream'.
The book I Married Wyatt Earp (1967), is based on a manuscript allegedly written in part by her.
#josephineearp #sadieearp #josephinemarcus #wyattearp #imarriedwyattearp #jewishamericans #jewishlife #jewishwomeninhistory #jewishwomen
The Rise of David Levinsky, by Abraham Cahan, 1917, is a great, free book on gutenberg.org about the early twentieth American #jewish #immigrant experience. I can totally see one or more of my great grandparents reading it back in the day.
What the wonderful movie "The fearless Vampire Killers" has to do with #antisemitism, #jewishlife & #ww2:
"In the film there’s an Eastern European culture which was desolated by the Germans & that’s been killed off for good thanks to Polish Stalinism. It’s the kind of thing that you can see in the work of figures like Chagall & Isaac Babel, & also in certain Polish paintings. This culture, which never reappeared after the war, is part of my childhood memories." Polanski
It's getting real! So excited to be preparing my recital for the Landestheater Detmold.
I have a beautiful program planned!
✡️ BERÜHMTE KOMPONISTEN JÜDISCHER HERKUNFT
🗓️ January 26
🕦 11:30 am
📍 Landestheater Detmold
ℹ️ https://www.landestheater-detmold.de/de/news/214
(edit: better quality version of the photo and alt text)
#Detmold #Lippe #NRW #lieder #artsong #recital #operaSinger #mazeldon #jewstodon #jewishLife #jewishArt #jewishCulture #jewishMusic #holocaustRemembrance #neverAgainIsNow
Is this you? 🙄
Have you ever felt like Hebrew just wasn’t clicking, despite your best efforts?
Or maybe someone taught you Hebrew in a way that left you feeling stuck, as if reaching fluency was out of reach?
Let me tell you — there is nothing to be ashamed of.
I see it all the time!
Students who thought they “didn’t have what it takes” to succeed in Hebrew, simply because the methods they were taught weren’t the right fit for them
That’s on the method (or the guide), not on you
The truth is, I have thousands of students around the globe who’ve shown themselves (and me!) that anyone can learn Hebrew!
Whether you want to speak, read, write, or all three
There’s no such thing as -
⛔️ “too old to learn a language”
⛔️ “too much of an accent”
⛔️ “not a language person”
✅️ It’s all about having the right guide and the right method
With a supportive, clear path forward, you’ll see that you can thrive in Hebrew
Let me show you how!
Follow my story from a progressive Christian family to discovering my Jewish roots, embracing historical criticism, and learning to navigate my dual identity.
#Hitzonim #Elul #JewishLife #Jewish #HighHolidays
http://hitzonim.com/2024/09/02/doing-communion-wrong-a-four-act-story-of-jewish-becoming-for-elul/
Rahel Szalit-Marcus (1888-1942) Jewish artist, illustrator born in Lithuania, then part of Russian. She was active in Berlin during the Weimar Republic and in Paris in the 1930s hanging out at well known cafés frequented by artists and intellectuals. She was best known for her illustrations of East European Jewish subjects
In 1942, Szalit-Marcus was arrested in the Vel d'Hiv Roundup, and she was deported to Auschwitz where she was murdered. Her Paris studio was ransacked, and many of her works destroyed
Shown here are lithographic illustrations from Sholem Aleichem’s unfinished novel Motl, the Cantor’s Son, 1922
#rahelszalitmarcus #art #artist #sholemaleichem #motlthecantorsson #illustrator #jewishlife #shtetllife #judaica #jewishart #womenartists #illustrations #rahelszalit #motl #unfinishednovel #illustratednovel #jewishartist
Rahel Szalit-Marcus (1888-1942) Jewish artist, illustrator born in Lithuania, then part of Russian. She was active in Berlin during the Weimar Republic and in Paris in the 1930s hanging out at well known cafés frequented by artists and intellectuals. She was best known for her illustrations of East European Jewish subjects
In 1942, Szalit-Marcus was arrested in the Vel d'Hiv Roundup, and she was deported to Auschwitz where she was murdered. Her Paris studio was ransacked, and many of her works destroyed
Shown here with 2 self portraits
#rahelszalitmarcus #art #artist #illustrator #jewishlife #shtetllife #judaica #selfportrait #jewishart #womenartists #illustrations #rahelszalit #jewishartist
Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum with Jeffrey Shandler and Deborah Dash Moore
In 1940s New York, immigrant Jewish scholars sought to build a museum to commemorate their lost worlds and people. Among the Jews who arrived in the United States in the early 1940s were a small number of Polish scholars who had devoted their professional lives to the study of Europe’s Yiddish-speaking Jews at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Faced with the devastating knowledge that returning to their former homes and resuming their scholarly work there was no longer viable, they sought to address their profound sense of loss by continuing their work, under radically different circumstances, to document the European Jewish lives, places, and ways of living that were being destroyed. In pursuing this daunting agenda, they decided to create a museum to memorialize East European Jewry and educate American Jews about this legacy. YIVO scholars determinedly pursued this undertaking for several years, publicizing the initiative and collecting materials to exhibit. However, the Museum of the Homes of the Past was abandoned shortly after the war ended.
Homes of the Past explores this largely unknown episode of modern Jewish history and museum history and demonstrates that the project, even though it was never realized, marked a critical inflection point in the dynamic interrelations between Jews in America and Eastern Europe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx2tTPbJsYI
#jewishlife #jewish #Mazeldon #JewishAuthors #Jewish #JewishBookMonth #Jewniverse #AlternateHistory
I am proud to partner with @18Doorsorg as a member of their Jewish Clergy Officiation Referral Service as a resource for interfaith couples and families! #inclusion #interfaithfamilies #Jewishlife
New on #Hitzonim, a take on the #Parshah that calls for radical inclusion and porous boundaries.
#Torah #Leviticus #Vayikrah #Jewish #JewishLife #Tazria
http://hitzonim.com/2024/04/13/porous-boundaries-and-belonging-a-secular-humanist-dvar-torah/
Thoughts on Shabbat HaChodesh:
"Speaking of traditions, Pesach says no leavened bread of any kind, and, of course, some take it all too far, which is exactly the right amount of far to take Pesach."
#ShabbatShalom #Hitzonim #JewishLife
http://hitzonim.com/2024/04/06/red-wine-drunk-on-shabbat-hachodesh/
