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/
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.