Mr. Magwitch

Fashion Designer Carlos McLendon, 1947, by George Platt Lynes

(Guys, it’s a joke, it’s a meme, I honour your ability to take anything seriously that you please, but when there are finite days on earth I only beg to ask whether this dumbass meme is what you choose to take seriously. Anyway, following in the traditions of my ancestors,I love kitniyot. I like this meme because it makes me feel sexy and dangerous for eating rice, which is a thrill I do not often enjoy)

source: Gotha, Forschungsbibl. der Universität Erfurt, Cod. Chart. A 594, fol. 73v and 75r

The first documentation of the Jewish presence dates to 1375. Jewish population in A Coruña grew rapidly throughout the Late Middle Ages. It is thought that after the persecution of Jews in Castile, a large number of Jewish people took refuge in Galicia. The Jewish community in Coruña traded with Castile and Aragon, and in 1451 they contributed to the rescue of the Murcian Jews with a large sum of money, which could demonstrate the prosperity of the community.

"The Dybbuk" relates the story of a young bride possessed by the the malicious spirit of her dead beloved on the eve of her wedding. First staged in in Warsaw by the "Vilna Troupe", it is considered a seminal play in the history of Yiddish theatre. The story is based on years of research by Shloyme Ansky, who travelled between villages in Belarus and Ukraine, documenting Jewish folk beliefs and tales. The Dybbuk is known as the dislocated soul of a dead person in Eastern European Ashkenazi mythology, deriving from the Hebrew word דִּיבּוּק‎ dibbūq, meaning 'a case of attachment', which is a nominal form of the verb דָּבַק‎ dābaq 'to adhere' or 'cling'.

finnxlewis