Categories
Jewish identity can be separated into four separate, independent parts:
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- Ethnic/Ancestral Judaism (those of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, or Mizrahi Jewish ancestry, or more specifically, those Jews who by all secular accounts are the descendants of the those who were depopulated by the Romans in c.100 CE, resulting in the Jewish Diaspora)
- Religious Judaism (those Jews who follow the tenets of the Jewish religion)
- Cultural Judaism (those Jews who celebrate Jewish holidays and were "raised in a Jewish home").
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“Kitsch ... is one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively this whole plethora of “trashy,” sham or faked objects, this whole museum of junk which proliferates everywhere.... Kitsch is the equivalent to the “cliché” in discourse.”
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