Crypto Jews

With guest Yirmiyahu Danzig aka That Semite

How many Carribean Jews do you know? Well, now you know Yirmiyahu!

Remember when diversity wasn’t an annoying word that makes you think of 5 hour office HR power point presentations? Our guest today is diverse in the cooolest way possible - not just his background, but his experience and work as well. Yirmiyahu Danzig tells us all about his upbringing as a Carribean/American/Israeli Jew, his military service in the heart of the conflict alongside Israeli soldiers of all religions, and his online work building bridges with our Arab neigbors.

Yirmiyahu Danzig

You can find Yirmiyahu on his wonderful instagram @that_semite, and also on Jewish Unpacked, where he is a digital educator (beware the video rabbithole - it’s pretty powerful!)

🛎 Holocaust bell dings at 4:22 🛎

Here’s some of what we covered:

• Why does Yirmiyahu speak so many languages?? Hebrew, English, Arabic, Yiddish, Guyanese Creole, and a little bit of Palestinian Yiddish (what?)

• The history of Carribean Jews, aka the Crypto Jews who hid their identity sometimes for several generations. Did you know that perhaps 30% of Latin Americans have Jewish roots? Book rec: Jewish Pirates of the Carribean

Synagogue in Curucao, established 1674

• 9th generation Israelis

• Yirmiyahu’s origin story, or - do only gentiles fight back?

• What do we do with all these Jews?

• Traumas R’ us

• Yirmiyahu’s service in the Border Patrol, working with Palestinians every day in the heart of the old city of Jerusalem, serving alongside muslim, Jewish, Druze, Christian, and Bedouin Israeli officers.

• How to make peace? Step 1 - find someone to talk to who doesn’t suck.

• Here is a great clip from his social media, where he regularly engages with people in Arabic:

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