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A Song of Zion: music for Pride [1]

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Date: 2024-06-06  

Greetings folks! Welcome to A Song of Zion, our weekly check-in and virtual minyan for Jews on Daily Kos. This is an open thread, and we treat it as a safe space for Jewish folks here. Non-Jews are welcome but we ask that they listen more than speak. No squabbling, please: if you want to fight, please step outside. (H/T wasplover)



Happy Thursday! This week I thought it would be nice to take a musical break with some queer Jewish artists. Post yours in the comments!

First up, it’s Miss Mitzi Manna, the great Yiddish drag queen, Miss Mitzi Manna:



If you don’t know Yiddish, the closed captioned English is really good! There is also a full show available on YouTube that’s really excellent. There’s not a lot of information readily available on her, but I found this article about queer artists that includes an interview of Manna.



The Shondes:

From an Advocate article on the Shondes:

There are so many ways that The Shondes have been described, with sexy, queer, transgender, feminist, radical, steampunky, Jewish rock band chief among the adjectives that separate the band from their contemporaries (the latter of whom are sometimes called "Sleater-come-latelys").

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