Hi folks! (Or those of you who still look now that I'm out of Africa...)
Now that I'm back in the States, I'm hoping to start a new segment on this blog that will offer further insight into my trip and the interviews I did. While I can't promise I will post every day, I do hope that I will post at lease several times a week.
So what is this new project? Well, I'm starting to revisit my interviews, via the recordings and notes I took, and doing so is a whole new--and exciting--learning experience. Undoubtedly, there will be things that I forgot to mention in my blog notes when I first interviewed my subjects, and now I'll be able to share them. I also hope to include actual quotes now, not just my own summaries, which should prove to be a whole new window into this project.
Some of the interviews are quite long, so it's possible that people will be spread over a few days. The goal is not to throw people's personal lives up on the blog (I've been thinking a lot about what is appropriate to share and what isn't, and I will make sure to refrain from posting anything I was asked not to or is clearly sensitive information) but rather to share people's stories in relation to their Jewish life and life within the Abayudaya community. The focus will be on those aspects that are unique to the Abayudaya experience, and that relate to the various challenges and unique experiences that come with being a Jew in Uganda.
I hope to make my first of these posts tomorrow or Sunday, so stay tuned!
Shabbat shalom,
Nava
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