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Mini-challenge: Jewltide

This mini-challenge is meant to bring together people who love to read or create for fandoms that feature Jewish themes or characters.

Jewish themes are understood in a broad and varied way: from the religious to the cultural sphere to historical events, and this includes also how these big topics influence the lives of the characters on a smaller, daily-life scale. If a character puts importance on their Jewish identity in some way, this is already reason enough to include them in this challenge, even if Jewishness is a subtle background flavour in a canon text. 

Jewltide is open to anyone, no matter whether you identify as Jewish or not, and I just ask all participants to act in good faith and tread respectfully.

If you would like to see more Jewish representation and want to point people towards your requests, please leave a comment under this post and mention your AO3 username, relevant fandoms/characters, your letter (if you have one), possible prompts or anything you want to highlight. Here's a handy template:


I have also started compiling a list of fandoms in this year's tagset that feature Jewish characters or Jewish themes: feel free to add more to the spreadsheet. (It's open to editing for anyone who has the link, so just be careful with it, please. Unfortunately, spreadsheets tend to get messed up easily.)

If you write a gift or treat in these fandoms and think it fits the Jewltide challenge, please tag them with "Jewltide" on the AO3, so interested readers can find them more easily.

Sometimes Jewish characters are, to put it mildly, less than flatteringly depicted in canon media, and sometimes the way Jewish themes are approached may irk us. I would still like to allow such media in this mini-challenge, with the caveat that if you want to see fic for it, you should address possibly problematic aspects in the comment (here on DW and on the spreadsheet). The beauty of fic is that it can fix where canon falls short. <3


I expect our list to grow, so I will update this post accordingly. For now, we have these fandoms listed on the spreadsheet (in alphabetical order):
 

  • Addams Family (Sonnenfeld Films)
  • Alpennia - Heather Rose Jones
  • Babylon Berlin (TV)
  • Beetlejuice (Perfect/Brown & King)
  • Being Human (US/Canada)
  • Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)
  • Bombshells (DC Comics)
  • Call Me By Your Name (2017)
  • Clueless (1995)
  • Covert Affairs
  • Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
  • Dance of the Vampires (Broadway 2002/2003) - Steinman/Ives/Kunze 
  • England Series - K. J. Charles
  • Falsettos - Lapine/Finn
  • Fantastic Four (2015)
  • Fantastic Four (Comicverse)
  • Fantastic Four (Movies 2005-2007) 
  • Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules 
  • Fiddler on the Roof
  • Fudge Series (Judy Blume)
  • God of Vengeance - Ash
  • His Royal Secret - Lilah Pace
  • Houdini & Doyle (TV)
  • John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Season 9 
  • King Falls AM (Podcast)
  • Little Shop of Horrors - Menken/Ashman
  • Mean Girls - Richmond/Benjamin/Fey
  • Oliver Appropriate - Say Anything (Album)
  • Rabbinic and Talmudic Judaism RPF
  • Russian Doll (TV 2019)
  • Seinfeld
  • Shiva Baby (2020)
  • Spinning Silver (Naomi Novik)
  • Tanz der Vampire | Dance of the Vampires - Steinman/Kunze
  • The Alienist
  • The Magic School Bus
  • The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
  • The Mary Tyler Moore Show
  • The Try Guys (Webseries)
  • The Will Darling Adventures - K. J. Charles
  • These Violent Delights - Micah Nemerever
  • Water Rats
  • Where the Sky is Silver and the Earth is Brass - Sonya Taaffe 
  • Yudah Cohen Series - Rebecca Fraimow
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[personal profile] smakibbfb 2021-10-23 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
AO3 Name: [archiveofourown.org profile] derry_rain

Letter Link: My Letter

Fandom(s): The Alienist

Character(s): Marcus Isaacson, Lucius Isaacson, Bitsy Sussman

Comment: All three characters are canonically Jewish, and for Marcus and Lucius, it's very significant in text to their character and storylines. Bitsy is a much smaller character in the narrative, but all three are highly important to the plot of both seasons.

I will warn that as it is set in 1890s New York, both Isaacsons have to deal with discrimination against them, both explicit and implicit. I will also warn here about canonical character death at the end of the second season.

I'm always hunting for more stories about the Isaacsons, so anything featuring them would be utterly wonderful. I go into more detail in the letter, but I am ultimately hugely enamoured of their great smarts and competence, and gorgeously realised sibling relationship. I'd love to see more stories dealing with them and their family.
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