Description
hefker: $3 – “ownerless” – a key word in yiddish anarchist poetics, associated with the grain that must be left for the gleaners (what is excess cannot be owned)
timtum [upright]: $3 – the talmudic term for a person of indeterminate gender, used in yidishland for people we’d now put under the broad umbrella of “trans woman” (including both binary and nonbinary people)
timtum [rotational]: $3 – the talmudic term for a person of indeterminate gender, used in yidishland for people we’d now put under the broad umbrella of “trans woman” (including both binary and nonbinary people) – turn this one around to read it (deosil, if you must know) [available in: white background; black background; lavender background]
goldene pave: $3 – “golden peacock” – a biblically-accurate depiction of a classic symbol for yiddish cultural blossoming and persistence (mir viln nisht keyn goldene keytn, mir viln nisht keyn ayzerne kroyn) [available in: black on white; white on black; black on red]
pomegranate alef: $3 – a jewish antifascist emblem. the “granate” in pomegranate is where “grenade” comes from. [available in: black on white; white on black]
sher un ayzen: $3 – “shears and iron” – what a garment worker swears her oaths by (just don’t tell YIVO about the historical spelling of what they like to see written אײַזן)
full collection: (single color – lavender set has red “pomegranate alef” and random “sher un ayzn”) $15
comprehensive collection (all colors): $45
