kugel – 22.12.24

kugel - 22.12.24

I was ready to hate this series – it’s a prequel to Shtissel

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3069894/ 

And as soon as I turned it on, I was horrified by the terrible Yiddish of the Haredi Jews living in Antwerp.  But soon I realized that the fractured yiddish was part of the plot.  I also loved the petty evil of some of the characters, the smallness of their world.  And many of my favorite Sephardi actors manage to create these Haredi Ashkenazi characters.  https://www.kveller.com/kugel-the-shtisel-spinoff-will-stream-in-the-u-s-soon/

Check it out: 

This is nothing to do with religion. Or the character of Jews.  One might, however, see it as a denigration of Ashkenazi Jews by Sephardi Jews.  And one might see it as antisemitic.

Not me.  I see it as a Kugel – sweet, peppery, and very filling.

 

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