Because I'm always thinking ahead 3-4 books, I'm starting to noodle on an idea about an unpowered superhero in my JCU setting, and make her Jewish heritage an important part of the story. If Daredevil gets to explore Catholicism, surely I can do this. #cosowriters #WritingCommunity
@ianthealy Are you Jewish?
@WestofMars No, but I have the ancestry. My grandmother was imprisoned in Gurs in WWII and she lost other family members there. My grandfather was able to get her out through an impressive amount of, well, fraud. She wrote a book about it that was featured in an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum in Illinois. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IHM_TRAVELexhibit_GURS-111422.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjq5PCm-Or_AhXPK1kFHWYQC1QQFnoECA0QAQ&usg=AOvVaw1PgrfPQgsC_rRAPxDV_BX8 /nosanitize (downloads a pdf of the exhibit)
@ianthealy I recommend using a sensitivity reader and/or Jewish editor, then. One of my biggest gripes with trad publishing is that it reps Judaism through a Christian lens, not as we actually truly are.