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Sylvia McIvers

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Sylvia’s Quotes

“our Jews everywhere that they shouldn’t worry: our old God still lives!”
― Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

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“She thought it was safer to creep and cower, to be no one rather than someone. Like her mother taught her. "I will not be a mother like ours was.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

tags: abuse, abuse-survivors, motherhood, mothers-and-daughters, safety

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“When a young employee at the Anne Fank House tried to wear his yarmulke to work, his employers told him to hide it under a baseball cap. The museum's gal was "neutrality," one spokesperson explained to the British newspaper Daily Mail, and a live Jew in a yarmulke might "interfere" with the museum's "independent position." The museum finally relented after deliberated for four months, which seems like a rather long time for the Anne Frank House to ponder whether it was a good idea to force a Jew into hiding.”
― Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

tags: anne-frank, antisemitism, clothing, jews, museums, neutrality

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“It’ll be alright. Even as a child, Juniper knew it was a lie. But it was the kind of lie that became true in the telling, because at least there was someone in the world who loved her enough to lie.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

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“Think about what we expect from the endings of stories—not just Denise, but all of us. We expect the good guys to be “saved.” If that doesn’t happen, we at least expect the main character to have an “epiphany.” And if that doesn’t happen, then at least the author ought to give us a “moment of grace.” All three are Christian terms. So many of our expectations of literature are based on Christianity—and not just Christianity, but the precise points at which Christianity and Judaism diverge. And then I noticed something else: the canonical works by authors in Jewish languages almost never give their readers any of those things.”
― Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

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