They Don’t Like Indians
THEY DON’T LIKE INDIANS they stopped delivering our paper again my dad marched into their office and demanded to know whether it was because they didn’t like Jews they didn’t like Indians or because...
View ArticleHonour Song
WHAT I LEARNED IN SCHOOL In grade four Mrs. Pony wrote Hanukah across the blackboard And in front of the entire class She asked me if she had spelled it properly It was awkward Because I didn’t know if...
View ArticleJewish Redface
My husband recently bought me a lithograph as a gift. It is a portrait of Short Bull, a Sioux leader, soldier, and eventual performer in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows. My husband bought it for me not...
View ArticleJews & Indians: A Brief History
Jews and indigenous North Americans have had a curious, and occasionally intimate, history since Europeans “discovered” the new world, and imagined their inhabitants as descendants of the so-called...
View ArticleIndigenous Shtetl: Special Edition
Can one be Jewish and Indian; Jewish and Mohawk; Jewish and MicMac? Yes! Jewish and aboriginal cultures have been intertwined for many moons. In an earlier incarnation of Shtetl, Nakuset, a...
View ArticleRiff Cohen, Anita Doron & Leah R. Vineberg
(Please scroll down to the player below to listen to this podcast). Three women, three different arts. Anita is a filmmaker and Ted Fellow born in Transcarpathia, but she now calls Canada home. She...
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