What does poophoria have to do with Chassidic rebellion? What is poophoria? Find out in this fresh instalment of The Psychosexual Development of a Jewish Heretic: The Anal Phase; Let My People Go!
Category Archives: Shtetl Magazine
“Wanna buy a Jew? We got plastic, we got wood, we got Hassids, we got Jews holding coins…”. Now say that in Polish and you might just be at a market in Krakow where Jewish figurines are available for sale and where they are commonly found in Polish homes.
Posted in History
Tagged anthropology, Erica Lehrer, museums, Poland, Souvenir Talisman Toy
Riff Cohen is French/Israeli/Tunisian/Algerian. Her new album has a North-African trashy-pop thing happening. Read Nicolas Roux’s interview with her in Paris and check out her tunes this Friday on Shtetl on the Shortwave.
Young Montreal writer “Lick My Knish” is realizing that women are not as sexually liberated as she believed….and talking to her Mom as she sculpts obese naked women seems to confirm this. What do you think?
Graphic novelist and Holocaust survivor Miriam Katin’s son wants her to help him get European citizenship from Hungary so he can move to Germany and be with his girlfriend. What to do?
Posted in Literature
Tagged Blue Metropolis, Drawn and Quarterly, Germany, graphic novels, Holocaust, Letting It Go, Miriam Katin
“We were walking down the street on our way to the pharmacy to pick up condoms when the whiff of spicy Los Angeles street meat hit us.” A tale of pork and dating by Dvora Meyers.
Mimouna-hopping Moroccan-style Passover ritual live in Mile End. (And a mimouna is…???)
The 10 Plagues of Passover as told from an Indigenous perspective by Nathan and Howard Adler: twin brothers from Ottawa of both Jewish and Ojibwe/Anishinaabe heritage.
Posted in Ritual
Tagged Exodus, holidays, Idle No More, Melissa Mollen Dupuis, Mile End Chavurah, Nishuyuu, passover, Pesach
When it comes to Jewish Feminism, Lilith magazine has covered it all. From Jewish hair stories to JAPS to rabbinical misconduct to reproductive rights. Read and listen to Shtetl’s interview with Lilith Editor Susan Weidman Shneider.
Posted in Media
Tagged feminism, hair, JAP, Lilith, poverty, Susan Weidman Schneider, transgender
Kashua is an Arab Israeli novelist, journalist and sitcom writer for the funny and controversial Hebrew show Arab Labor. And he’s a bit of a nervous wreck too.
Posted in Identity
Tagged Arab, Arab Labor, Hebrew, Israel, Jewish Public Library, Palestine, Sayed Kashua
