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chronic fatigue will have u thinking things like i miss washing and chopping vegetables

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I am gathering a collection of books and web pages about global Jewish Diasporas; I currently have over 90 books on the list, but I need more! If you have any nonfiction books written in or translated to English about a Jewish Diaspora community (ideally written by a member of that community), please send me the title and author(s)! I would especially appreciate books on marginalised members of Diaspora communities, such as gender minorities and disabled community members. This is an inclusive list: convert, secular, Patrilineal, and crypto-Jewish communities are all accepted and wanted.

The vast majority of the books on the list so far are about Diasporas of Southwest Asia and North Africa. I would like to add more books about the Abayudaya, Ashkenazim (preferably focused on overlooked and underrepresented aspects of Ashkenazi culture, currently I have just 2 books in this category), Balkan Jews, the Bene Israel, the Beta Israel, Bukharan Jews and Jews of Central Asia, Jews of the Caucasus, Cochin Jews, crypto-Jews and conversos, Igbo Jews, Kaifeng and East Asian Jews, the Karaites, the Krymchaks, the Lemba, Jews of Madagascar, the Paradesi, and Romaniotes. Books about Jews from regions not listed here are also welcome!

I have one or more books for every category except for Krymchaks and Madagascar Jews 💔. I will publicly share the first version of this collection once I have more books and a better organisational system in place.

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June 2025

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Image description: a photograph of a sunlit lakeside, facing up towards a mountain obscured in low clouds. The water appears green from the reflection of the trees on the opposite side, the sky above is blue. /end description

Had this place all to myself yesterday, it was so peaceful.

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Rhapsody in Green

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hey! we thought this might be coming and here it is. and it sucks! mass vaccination is one of our best tools at preventing the spread of COVID. public comment is open until 11:59 PM EDT on the 23rd of May.

you can leave a comment here:

you can leave an anonymous comment, but usually non-anonymous ones do carry more weight.

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Fern

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Cryptobiotic soil below the yellow lichen on sandstone. Robbers Roost with the Moon above. West Sedona, Az.

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“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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I finished reading The Colors of Jews by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz. I thought it was very good, although there were some punctuation errors that I imagine could’ve been resolved between 2007 and the present day; it also seemed to make some pretty big presumptions about its audience which did not apply to me, that felt rather discordant. Overall I really appreciated the quotes and interviews from various activists and scholars and the conclusion focused on Diasporism, Jewish inclusivity, and solidarity. I enjoyed it, I'll probably give it a reread later, and look more into the people whose words were included.

(I will warn any prospective readers that the book does contain slurs.)

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Littleleaf ratany. Bumble Bee, Az.

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My minor for my bachelor's degree was in linguistics (it may be surmised that I enjoy linguistics), and I have lately become increasingly interested in Jewish culture and scholarship. I came across this resource which provides overviews for 35 Jewish languages, including dictionaries for a few of them. I just wanted to share this because I find it very exciting and care a lot about linguistic preservation and Jewish culture, and I thought sharing it could help other people.

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i found this channel for learning ladino! https://www.youtube.com/user/AutoridadLadino/videos. it has lessons, music, and interviews with native speakers

boosting this!

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April 2025

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April 2025

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Image description: a photo of a jackdaw perched in a tree whose branches are covered in lichen /end description

Western jackdaw/kaja. Värmland, Sweden (May 4, 2024).