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Hanah Bloom

Hanah Bloom

Hanah Bloom is an honors first year student majoring in political science and philosophy at Miami University of Ohio. She is a 2020-2021 Alma College Writing Fellow.

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Posted inFirst Person, Opinion

My mom is Japanese and my dad is Jewish. Their love is not a punchline.

Hanah Bloom by Hanah Bloom and JTA December 7, 2020

A version of this article originally appeared on Alma. I’m the daughter of a white Jewish American dad and a Japanese immigrant mom, and I grew up in Alabama. As you can guess, this made life growing up in the American Deep South quite interesting. Amid the external antisemitism and racism I faced, the internal joke within […]

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