Post by pieter on May 13, 2020 11:19:08 GMT -7
I saw this tv series about the Ultra-Orthodox Anti-Zionist Hassidic people in Israel who live like they live in 18th and 19th century Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine. I couldn't stop watching and saw the total serie.
The actors come extremely close to the Ultra-Orthodox community with it's old Eastern- and Central-European traditions, Yiddish language and struggling and rejecting the Israeli society and Zionism.
I remeber a Jewish girl in the Netherlands with an English Jewish mother with a Polish Jewish family background and a Frisian Dutch (non Jewish) father. She struggled with the extremely rational and in her eyes
cold culture of her Jewish family. She considered it to rational and to detached from emotion and feeling.
Intersting enough I heard the same thing from people who came from very strict Protestant Calvinist Dutch families or Muslim families and who had become more liberal or secular themselves in life.
One Jewish woman who was married to a Dutch Reformed Calvinist man said, "My Dutch protestant husbant is more Jewish than me, because he is so biblical theological, he knows the Old and the New Testament by heart."
That is the difference between Calvinist protestants and Dutch Roman Catholics, the Protestant Calvinist study the bible and know the bible by heart, the Roman Catholics don't, because the Roman-Catholic priest
gives the holy lectures to them via the Gospel speeches during mass.
The actors come extremely close to the Ultra-Orthodox community with it's old Eastern- and Central-European traditions, Yiddish language and struggling and rejecting the Israeli society and Zionism.
I remeber a Jewish girl in the Netherlands with an English Jewish mother with a Polish Jewish family background and a Frisian Dutch (non Jewish) father. She struggled with the extremely rational and in her eyes
cold culture of her Jewish family. She considered it to rational and to detached from emotion and feeling.
Intersting enough I heard the same thing from people who came from very strict Protestant Calvinist Dutch families or Muslim families and who had become more liberal or secular themselves in life.
One Jewish woman who was married to a Dutch Reformed Calvinist man said, "My Dutch protestant husbant is more Jewish than me, because he is so biblical theological, he knows the Old and the New Testament by heart."
That is the difference between Calvinist protestants and Dutch Roman Catholics, the Protestant Calvinist study the bible and know the bible by heart, the Roman Catholics don't, because the Roman-Catholic priest
gives the holy lectures to them via the Gospel speeches during mass.