If you are Jewish you are going to love this video. And if you aren’t you’ll probably love it too.
Identity crisis does not meant a thing to Vanessa Hidary – also known as The Hebrew Mamita. She is a self-described “culture bandit”, actress, social performer, poet, writer and director, and she’s very proud of who she is.
Just watch her performance at Def Poetry Jam HBO.:
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That's fabulous.
On the flipside of Vanessa everyone thinks I'm Jewish, including most Jews I've met, and their jaws drop when they discover I'm not. I've been asked "are you SURE?" more than once. I guess I DO look Jewish-ish, and with a name like Rachel I'm halfway to the stereotype already... I always say that the chosen people seem to have chosen me. And it doesn't offend or bother me in the slightest. (In fact, in certain Sydney suburbs it gets me great service when I'm in line at the deli, so who's complaining?)
My father is Jewish, my mother is not. So i am not officially Jewish but i feel half. My great grandparents died in concentration camps. My grandfather escaped Germany on the kinder transport at the age of 14 and never saw his parents again. My grandmothers family left Poland for Australia before the war because things had become intolerable for Jews there. I have an ethnic look so people often ask my heritage and I always tell them proudly "my father is Jewish".