Judaism and fandom

[kassrachel]

After creating an entry on stilljewish at Fanlore, I realized that part of the story behind the creation of this lj comm is the interconnected series of conversations about Judaism and fandom that many of us have been having over the last -- what: year? few years? decade? lifetime? *g

Comments

[sophinisba]

Thanks for these pages and your contribution to the Yuletide page. I'd started a page for Willow Rosenberg a couple weeks ago and wanted to link to some other page discussing broader issues and patters of Judaism and fandom but I wasn't sure whether the new page should be called "Judaism and Fandom" or "Antisemitism in Fandom" or what. I'm glad you went this way and I hope a lot of people will have things to add.

[kassrachel]

Thank you for your edits too! \o/ I &hearts the whole collaborative wiki process, so much.

One of the places where I think the page needs the most help is on the antisemitism in fandom section; I know there are a bunch of links out there on that subject, but I don't have any of them saved in del.icio.us or anything like that. I'm looking forward to seeing what other folks come up with... :-)

[reserve]

You should add The X-Men's Erik Lensherr (Magneto) to your list of canonically Jewish characters in Fandom. He's also the only canonical Holocaust survivor that I can think of. He and Professor Xavier actually begin their lifelong friendship/antagonism in Haifa.