Mastodawn

This this this.

"#Hanukkah commonly evokes light, family gatherings, and childhood memory. But these associations sit atop a much deeper and more challenging history.

Hanukkah marks the only successful #Jewish revolt in recorded antiquity against cultural erasure.

Not against slavery. Not against imperial taxation. Not against foreign rule as such.

Against forced #assimilation.

The Seleucid decrees were not primarily economic or political. They were civilizational. They targeted the infrastructure of Jewish continuity itself: #Torah law and study, #Hebrew language, #Shabbat, #circumcision, and the #Jewishcalendar. #Torahscrolls were destroyed, and those who taught or possessed them were executed. In effect, the decrees aimed to dismantle Jewish memory.

Most ancient peoples who faced comparable pressures disappeared."

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hanukkah-and-the-jewish-refusal-to-disappear/

Game Master's Book Club Dec 1

#bookwyrm #30daybookchallenge - Day 30 - Last Book Read - To Shape a Dragon's Breath - Moniquill Blackgoose #CulturalIdentity #colonialism #assimilation #MagicSchool #dragons #DragonRiders #YAFantasy #yafiction #indigenous #booksky #booktok #Bookstagram #ttrpgpodcast #gamemastersbookclub https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc

Centre for Population Change Dec 1

New video: Watch Ayse Guveli from the University of #Warwick in our #CPCCGWebinar from last week. She discussed the 2000 #Families and The Third Generation projects which aim to reveal the consequences and the long-term impact of #migration on #migrants from Turkey and on their three #generation #descendants by comparing them to their non-migrant counterparts in #Turkey:

https://youtu.be/Ngobm5I-mh0?si=TQ608VQkCa0wXayB&t=1

#demography #sociology #inequality #education #labourmarkets #genderroles #religiosity #assimilation

Researching multigenerational consequences of migration: Insights from the 2000 Families project

YouTube

j43147 :pentagram:Nov 22

Dude the war in the Heavens, the Clash of the Titans, the Lucifer rebellion, the Andromedan wars AND the Orion wars.... was the virus, it was the Borg...it was the forbidden technology in Dune; Prophecy and if the technology survives it continues and that's why this world is a shithole. #theborg #andromedanvirus #assimilation #decepticon

דער קערפער פֿון השם Nov 20

"One hundred and twenty years ago this month, a celebration was held at #NewYork’s #CarnegieHall on #Thanksgiving Day, celebrating 250 years of #Jewish presence in the #UnitedStates. It was the capstone of a week of festivities commemorating the founding of Shearith Israel in 1655, the first Jewish congregation in what was then called #NewAmsterdam.

The #Shabbat before a packed house was to arrive at the world-famous venue, both a warning and a call to renewal were offered by Shearith Israel’s then-#rabbi, Reverend Dr. H. Pereira Mendes. He was concerned about the rate of #assimilation of the comfortable #American Jewish community."

https://jewishjournal.com/judaism/385034/the-covenantal-letter-at-carnegie-hall/

The Covenantal Letter at Carnegie Hall

One hundred and twenty years ago this month, a celebration was held at New York’s Carnegie Hall on Thanksgiving Day, celebrating 250 years of Jewish presence in the United States.

Jewish Journal

Windspeaker.com Nov 19

“I think this is really the first-hand experience of what it was actually like to go to a school that was underfunded, understaffed, really just seen as a way to assimilate children into what #Canada was going to become.”

#Indigenous #FirstNations #books #assimilation #education

https://www.windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/new-book-provides-answers-day-school-survivors

New book provides answers for day school survivors

Students by Day: Colonialism and Resistance at the Curve Lake Indian Day School, written by settler-Anishinaabe historian Dr. Jackson Pind, is a powerful offering of Two-Eyed Seeing, a methodology that mixes Indigenous knowledge with Western practices.Pind uses oral Indigenous history and western archival analysis to chronicle the lesser-known story of Indian day schools, centering life at the Curve Lake Indian Day School, which operated from 1899 to 1978.

Windspeaker.com