Jewish American vs American Jew - An American Pickle (2020)

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  @VicLovesTruth · 2 years ago · pinned

  I also had a jumanji themed bar mitzvah😂

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  @itsanit123 · 2 years ago

  One element is Irving wrote allot about Dutch American history, and made up some, but the colony moved from a cultural Dutch place to an English place and there was this idea of a lost history. The story starts with him meeting a man who is very dutch and out of time. So the theme of assimilation and change is part of Rip Van Winkle as well and a lost time and culture.

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  @howardfischer7429 · 2 years ago

  My parents had a friend on the lower East side who sold pickes. Everyone called him "Maxie Pickles."

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  @cedainty · 2 years ago (edited)

  To me, Pickles is about survival. The easiest to grow in the worst ground, pickles have fed and nourished generations of families, mine included.

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  @jeromemckenna7102 · 2 years ago

  As someone who is not Jewish and someone who is older, seeing this video reminds me of all the stuff that I no longer have access to.  I moved from the NYC area to Minnesota.  As a child I remember pickles in a barrel, excellent bagels any many other things that don't exist in rural MN.  Frozen bagels are an abomination.

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  @curtnicol3756 · 2 years ago

  I'm neither Jewish or American, but I'm finding these videos fascinating. Great work

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  @webwarren · 2 years ago

  A possible title for your film series: A Stranger Among Us (1992). Melanie Griffith stars as an NYPD cop sent to work undercover in a Chassidic community. It starts as a fish-out-of-water story, but as it progresses, she learns not just the ways of the community, but a lot about love, tradition, and emotional maturity.

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  @rainbows98 · 1 year ago

  THANK YOU FOR NOT SHOWING BOG BODIES ITS SUCH A JUMPSCARE

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  @My20GUNS · 1 year ago

  Dude, I&apos;m loving your vids on Jewish/Jewish themed movies. I&apos;m a Goy boy from the Alaska, about as far away from Judism in America as you can get lol. It&apos;s great learning about all these complex traditions, struggles, &nbsp;and themes from great movies like Hester Street to silly comedies like American Pickle.<br><br>Please keep posting.

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  @arcar66 · 2 years ago

  My father&apos;s family came to the US just at the turn of the last century. They settled in Philadelphia. The family business started as a green grocery but soon became a small family company selling spices .. mostly garlic. It was well known up and down the east coast for garlic in a small box. First we imported from Italy, then Spain, then Portugal. Eventually garlic became more widely used by even non-Jews. Other places started producing garlic for American markets and soon California became the garlic-producing center in the US. Hence the annual &apos;Kilroy Garlic Festival&apos;. One of my fondest memories when I was very young, was to go into a deli and get a garlic pickle right from the big barrel. I used to snack on them after school...AH...those were the days!!

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  @פלוניאלמוני-צ7מ · 2 years ago

  The story of RIP Van Winkle reminds me the Talmudic story about the death of Honi Hameagel, one of the most famous Tannaim. <br><br>The Talmud tells that one time Honi was walking along the road he saw a man planting carob, and asked him why he was doing so, since the carob will bear fruit only in seventy years. &nbsp;The man said he was planting carobs for future generations.<br><br>Then Honi fell asleep and woke up seventy years later. &nbsp;When he got up from his sleep, he found the grandson of that man picking the carob fruits.<br><br>Honi entered the beit midrash and when he told them that he was Honi, no one believed him, and out of grief, Honi prayed that he will die, and indeed he died.<br><br>And the Talmud concludes, &quot;havruta o mituta&quot; - &quot;friendship or death&quot;

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  @jessematthews6861 · 2 years ago

  I am glad I came across your channel. I have been watching all the videos because this fascinates me. My family was secular till I was about 12 when the desire to have a more religious life for our family hit my father strongly. That was about 2012. Living about an hour drive away from the nearest synagogue in oklahoma made that a challenge, but with some friendships, we learned. I have shared my father&apos;s drive for a more religious life, but I now live in alaska due to work. I love seeing this conflict you present in the movies you have covered so far, because there are times I feel like Ben

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