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Bluma. Fan of golems and werewolves. @bluma.bsky.social

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@forsurenotjosh It might interest or amuse that Dr Livingston (I presume) was a very poor student of Hebrew back in the day,

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@a_a_viswanath @Cayden_Cline

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A belated follow-up to the tale of my fight against ‘Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ specifically, and John Boyne more generally in school:

They warned the teachers at my kid’s high school in advance that I am trouble.

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Options to include:

I think you’re dumb
I think you’re irrelevant
Housewife with a dictionary
I just don’t like you
Who are you again? (This is the Tom Paulin option)

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To celebrate my sixth year of failing at whatever this is, I am now going to be including a form rejection where people can just tick the reason they aren’t going to speak to me anymore.

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I hope friends and acquaintances who are still here are doing their damnedest and keep doing so into the new year.

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I hate to be back here posting, but is anyone willing to chat with me and give me some advice on pitching someone a book-length translation?

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Socialists, I left out socialists.

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I find any and all suggestion that restrictive, repressive policies are aimed at preserving ‘family.’

My family is made up of minorities, immigrants and queer people.

fuck off.

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It was funny. A bit of ‘oh, *this* is where I come from!’

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I know very little about my family (we‘re not the very literate sort and there aren’t any letters or many photos) but I happened upon a bit of information this summer…

And last night I saw my great, great grandfather’s tombstone, complete with Arbeiter Ring insignia.

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An interlude that feels very January to me.

https://t.co/46xRtm6LcQ

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I’m a big fan of useless facts.

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Allowing myself a retweet of this.

Leivick in the DP press post-war

https://t.co/405am9NEBx

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Today I am thinking of Leivick’s like for (and use of) Dostoyevsky, despite his having a pretty good handle on what use Dostoyevsky would have had for him

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I’ve had this particular JTA bulletin for a while — and posted it before — and have also previously read Leivick’s response to it.

But going through articles chronologically means I’m now reading what he said that (in part) provoked it…

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@_nemesissy_ This is bad. This is things on fire. Grab the children/animals/passports and go. Don’t stop for clean socks.

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Probably something I should have kept up my sleeve for some later date or more prestigious venue, but this week is something which is partly the result of my research this summer.

https://t.co/405am9N6LZ

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Sorry, fat-fingered, late ‘36.

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Leivick turns to the sea in 1937, too, on the way to Argentina, when the then-President of PEN International asks him if Yiddish actually has a grammar.