HeyJaredThe Viking Jewess and Other Curiosities by Nina Lichtenstein
The Viking Jewess, a.k.a. Nina, is shamelessly curious and writes about life in-between cultures, languages, homelands, and the body that experiences it all.
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A White Supremacist Told Me It’s Impossible to Me (opens the original)
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Back in the day when I started blogging to soothe my intense and existential writer’s itch, I chose the moniker Viking Jewess for my Wordpress blog, the same name I kept for this here Substack. I love my self-ascribed moniker as it’s both relevant to how I feel in my “kishkes”—my gut—as I move around in the world, and I think it’s creatively original, with a taste of bad-assery lingering in the air around it. When a Jewish woman today chooses to use “Jewess&#
My Epic Night in Norway (opens the original)
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When I was a kid growing up in Norway, I often had a sleep-over with my grandmother, or “mormor,” on Saturdays, and we’d usually watch either Norwegian or British soccer matches on TV. She had bets on them, and with her cigarette in one hand, she’d jump up and down on her couch screaming with each goal or miss. My mormor died in 1988, and I have not watched professional soccer since.That is, until this summer’s World Cup, when Norway made it to the finals for the first time in history. And much
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