Because some of my followers will want an explanation: "the depravity at the heart of the #palestinian #freepalestine movement" is a very racist thing to say, that's why I blocklisted zbo1
P. Y. Mund
@pymundgenealogy.com
🌳📜 Genealogy (mine, or whoever's) ideally; trying to get back to that ideal. Professional/study/moderation list account. Personal account: @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social 🔗: pymundgenealogy.com
Was Hitler onto something? Really? @darkempath2super.bsky.social "cancer" indeed
The concept of dedicated sections of the cemetery for children, young single men and women (≈ teenagers), mothers who died in childbirth, and martyrs... what a world (Inspired by the Pinkas of the Slutsk Chevra Kadisha, which is much more extensive than the JewishGen database would have you think!)
Blocking several people with dormant accounts here based on this simple test
פינחס יוסף מונד@pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 2d agoAnyway keep an eye on that Clothedwiththesun account (clothedwthesun2 et al), it has quite a few followers who are too respectable to risk reposting it
One of my colleagues needs to make this their slogan :) "We could supply more genealogy than I think you could tolerate."
Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · 3d agoMy grandmother died in 2011. Even fifteen years later, I can hear this in her voice.
It kinda changes the family narrative when you find out that your grandfather's parents, supposedly separated for 4+ years before their divorce, actually had a stillborn child together just months before the divorce, and when your grandfather would have been 9!
This thread is heavy, but 1) historically interesting and 2) worth noting terms in the news today like “visa” and “passport”
P. Y. Mund@pymundgenealogy.com · last wk.I am helping sort my late grandfather's effects for clearing out + preservation and boy this 1939–1945 stuff is dark Novel, I know
My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.
I am helping sort my late grandfather's effects for clearing out + preservation and boy this 1939–1945 stuff is dark Novel, I know
So Today in comically exasperating moments in genealogy Some time in 2022 I made a very satisfying discovery which I shared in real time on Twitter. My late maternal grandfather, Rabbi Yaakov Thumim, had no surviving first cousins on his Thumim side. 1/7
As in, "I saw people loose it in the Facebook groups where this was shared"
P. Y. Mund@pymundgenealogy.com · 2w agoSpecifically, it finds that Moroccan Jews are overwhelming of Middle Eastern (usually demonstrably Levantine) origin, and that the Iberian contribution is small, and the much discussed "Judaized Berber" component is no greater than 5% (this result makes people, mostly not Jewish, weirdly upset) 2/4
“an unexpected connection between a predominantly Moroccan Jewish lineage and the Saint Thomas Syrian Christian community of Kerala” Oh wow, did not see that coming
So - I've been meaning to post this for a while A team of Jewish genealogist and geneticists (including my friend @mdwaas.bsky.social) published their findings about the patrilineal ancestry of Moroccan Jewry, which are in line with other recent studies (and contrary to popular perceptions) 1/4
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So it turns out my namesake *did* spell his name like I do??? - I grow up spelling my name פנחס יוסף without the יו"ד of the full spelling. This is the most common spelling of Pinchas as a given name. - at around 13, my grandfather tells me that his (estranged, naming for him was a whole thing)...
Moderation list note: @snowhimbo.bsky.social for posts on Twitter (seems to have lurched to antisemitism some time in 2026)
On Purim I was driving my kids to their friends' houses and they didn't know the addresses for two of them, I found them in city zoning variance applications
I know how easily NY voter records are to access which is why I do not treat my DOB as anything but public knowledge
My Shabbos hat is not conniving, only my weekday hat is. On Shabbos we wear huckstering hats.
Blocklist note: @benjaminpdixon.bsky.social, Pastor Ben, for his recent Twitter feed (including, but mostly not for, the repeated use of ZOG, which he defines as the Israeli government...??!)
"ungrammatical truncated construct phrases" is a pet peeve of mine (and many other Haredi nerds) with regard to Hebrew-named American-run Jewish institutions, especially girls' seminaries for reasons I don't understand
There are institutions casually called things like נַחֲלַת and נְוֵה [shudder]
Abdul is usually short for one of the following Arabic theophoric names: - Abdul Latif - Abdulaziz - Abdulkarim - Abdullah - Abdulqadir - Abdulfacts - Abdurrahim - Abdurrahman - Abdussalam
If you devote most of your account's activity to whining to specific Jews that maybe they're talking too much about antisemitism, maybe they need to allot proportionate time to condemning other bigotries, I'm going to assume you have a problem with antisemitism
