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legendary yiddish curses by jewitches

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Sephardic Jewish boys from Thessaloniki, Greece, around 1900

In the past, Thessaloniki was nicknamed Evraioupolis, which means City of Hebrews in Greek. Its Jewish history dates back more than two thousand years, when Yevanic-speaking Romaniotes first settled in Thessaloniki. They were followed in the 14th century by Askenazim from Hungary, France and Bavaria, and finally in 1492 by Sephardim from the Iberian Peninsula, who altered the face of and enriched the then-Ottoman city forever. Their unique language, called “Ladino” — originally a mixture of Spanish and Hebrew, which later grew to include Arabic, Turkish, Italian and Greek — would become synonymous with Thessaloniki. Thus, the city became known as a center of the European Jews, maintaining a Jewish majority for centuries. The year 1943 marks the beginning of the end of the community, when around 50,000 Thessaloniki Jews were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. This came about despite strong opposition by Greek and Bulgarian Christians and an outcry from the city's ’s leading citizens and clergy, such as Archbishop Damaskinos. Some Jews survived as partisans hiding in the mountains. Less than 2,000 Jews returned after the war, having lost everything.

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Jewish women's bath in the Sar Chal neighborhood of Tehran, Iran, 1970s.

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Farewell, good hunter.

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peonies

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house head kid

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star gallery

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Pebble and sea glass paintings!

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Bad art is better than no art

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Happy pride month to my dad. When I came out as bi to him, this man googled what it ment, look at me and said "ohh. Yeah. You get that from me. You'd have far more siblings of I only shaged women." And went right back to his work emails.

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Have yall ever heard of these dan and phil guys

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Honestly it boils down to reparenting yourself & rewiring your own neuronal pathways & telling yourself a firm “stop” when you notice your mind slipping down negative loopholes & being present in the moment & enjoying being mid task rather than waiting for it to end & not thinking of inertia as your baseline and natural way of living

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The Angel Belly of Healing is here to cleanse your timeline. Photo from my collection, ca. 1970s.

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all-timer daniel molloy questions:

1. did you eat the baby?

2. are you schizophrenic, louis?

3. and then what?

4. fuck, man, are you the zodiac killer?

5. YOU BOTH FUCKED LESTAT?

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[oc] “girl, you really got me goin' / you got me so I don't know what I'm doin'” 🎵