ME WRITING, A BLOG

I decided to start a blog.

I have been writing since I was a small child. I never did anything special with it, also because at my parents´ house my sister was the writer and I was the visual artist. Which is funny, because actually my sister is also a visual artist and I am also writing.

I am very superstitious and traditional in my own way. So I give a lot of meaning to occasions that I define as ground breaking and important, even if they are very trivial to others. So upon my birthday, after reaching to a past narrative that defines a significant part of my identities (a journey to my maternal ancestors places of birth and living), I decided to make my writing public. Not anymore as the background to my visual or performative work, but as something that can stand for itself.

I have a complicated relationship with languages. My mother tongue is Hebrew. My mother’s mother tongue is Greek. My children’s „Mother tongue“ = their strongest language, is German.

I am mostly reading and writing in English. Which means, I do make grammatical and some spelling mistakes once in a while. But at the same time, this became the main language I think in. And therefore, the language I can express myself the best in.

To be continued…

My Fluid Body (on an Uneven Political Ground)

November 9, 2018

“In my grandmother’s house, no Yiddish was spoken, nor klezmer music heard.

The first time I heard klezmer music was upon my arrival to Germany, where I was also asked, for the first time in my life, if I was Jewish. Raised in a secular home in a Jewish State, a daughter from a family that has been secular, on both sides, for generations, my first reaction was: No.

The first time I heard klezmer music was upon my arrival to Germany, where I was also asked, for the first time in my life, if I was Jewish. Raised in a secular home in a Jewish State, a daughter from a family that has been secular, on both sides, for generations, my first reaction was: No.

It took me a few years until I understood that I am, as a matter of fact, Jewish.”

More in the new Protocols issue no. 4: Pirkei Avot Link