temerz's review
1.0
Absolute garbage.
Not only did she pile on heaps of Jewish stereotypes but she wrote with the most arrogantly ignorant, waspy type of recklessness where they are completely culturally insensitive and don't care how their perspective comes across.
Did not enjoy this and quite frankly, I never wanna hear another wasp causally throw in Yiddish words and phrases in their English sentences. It's not cute.
Not only did she pile on heaps of Jewish stereotypes but she wrote with the most arrogantly ignorant, waspy type of recklessness where they are completely culturally insensitive and don't care how their perspective comes across.
Did not enjoy this and quite frankly, I never wanna hear another wasp causally throw in Yiddish words and phrases in their English sentences. It's not cute.
tejmer's review
1.0
Absolute garbage.
Not only did she pile on heaps of Jewish stereotypes but she wrote with the most arrogantly ignorant, waspy type of recklessness where they are completely culturally insensitive and don't care how their perspective comes across.
Did not enjoy this and quite frankly, I never wanna hear another wasp causally throw in Yiddish words and phrases in their English sentences. It's not cute.
Not only did she pile on heaps of Jewish stereotypes but she wrote with the most arrogantly ignorant, waspy type of recklessness where they are completely culturally insensitive and don't care how their perspective comes across.
Did not enjoy this and quite frankly, I never wanna hear another wasp causally throw in Yiddish words and phrases in their English sentences. It's not cute.
marcemars's review
2.0
Goodreads should let you rate half points. Anyway, this book is "fun" in the Candence Bushnell kind of way. I am pretty sure it has some valid points, but sometimes it becomes into a joke. It is all in the way the writer says things. What I did like was the way she is not taking it very serious, like you are dating someone who is culturally different from you, and there is no reason to make a big fuss about it.
nuriti's review
1.0
Let's break down how bad this is in no particular order
1. Kristina Grish was dating Scott Mebus, a non-Jewish man, at the time that she was writing this book. They married in 2007. Grish, by her own account, never married or had a long-term relationship with a Jewish man and only fetishised Jews for about 7 years. With a few exceptions, most of her Jewish conquests only dated her for about 5 months. So if you are using this book to score a hot rich Jewish husband, I don't think she is the person to give you advice.
2. The writing is Sex and the City as written by the ghostwriter to the Long Island Medium, which Grish is, she's written two of the LIM's books.
3. She is super predatorial in a creepy "pickup artist way" but with the false bravado of a New Yorker and the spunk of a Shopaholic book. Her jokey quirkiness makes it creepier for me.
4. I was horrified by this white Christian woman happily pulling her privilege, expecting unlimited praise for basically being white and Christian and being willing to bless the Hebrew nation with her White Christian Vagina. She endlessly objectifies Jewish men, belittled Jewish customs, and gleefull fulfilling the role of the Aryan Superwoman...excuse me, Shiksa Goddess, who of course would be adored by Jewish men because of the thrill of taboo and her innate superiority.
5. Maybe she should have had a Jewish editor to go along with the boyfriends because Shiksa derived from the Hebrew term שקץ shekets, meaning "abomination", "impure," or "object of loathing", It is not a quaint term for non-Jewish women. It is the equivalent of calling someone a filthy worthless whore.
6. This entire book is based on the racist and xenophobic American stereotype of Jewish men being upper middle class, materialistic, liberal, weak, urban, mamma's boys. It is offensive, fetishising, and extremely demeaning to the people she claims to love so much. Even if a racist stereotype is framed as a positive, it still diminishes someone's humanity.
7. Along with Jewish men being pushovers, Jewish women are harpies, and non-Jewish woman are manipulative man-eaters. Really, she does a terrible job of promoting herself as the heroine of her own story/guide/nightmare.
8. You will learn nothing of value about the Jewish faith or culture from this book. You will learn nothing about having a healthy and productive interfaith relationship.
9. Of course, her recipes are not Kosher. Yes, seduce your man by trying to induce him to betray the ideals of his forefathers, or because you are too lazy to learn our dietary laws, or because you actively get off at watching this person conform to your will, that's some wife material if I ever saw it.
10. This book contains about 50-80 pages of worthless filler just to pad out this crap to a reasonable page count. So not only is it trite and offensive, but it keeps going on and on about how trite and offensive it is.
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW:
-Look, if you want to date Moshe because he's a nice guy, that's cool, get to know him and his culture by asking questions.
-If you want to date Moshe because he's a Jew and you think Jews are genetically predisposed to being good boyfriends that are going to have you dripping in diamonds because White Girl puss is apparently magic, that's not cool. You need to go away with that noise.
-If you don't understand the difference between those two motivations, then you probably should stick to dating inanimate things that will have no problem with you objectifying them for your amusement.
Oh and just one more thing....
FETISHISING...JEWISH...MEN...IS...ANTI-SEMITIC...BEHAVIOUR! Grow up and knock it off
1. Kristina Grish was dating Scott Mebus, a non-Jewish man, at the time that she was writing this book. They married in 2007. Grish, by her own account, never married or had a long-term relationship with a Jewish man and only fetishised Jews for about 7 years. With a few exceptions, most of her Jewish conquests only dated her for about 5 months. So if you are using this book to score a hot rich Jewish husband, I don't think she is the person to give you advice.
2. The writing is Sex and the City as written by the ghostwriter to the Long Island Medium, which Grish is, she's written two of the LIM's books.
3. She is super predatorial in a creepy "pickup artist way" but with the false bravado of a New Yorker and the spunk of a Shopaholic book. Her jokey quirkiness makes it creepier for me.
4. I was horrified by this white Christian woman happily pulling her privilege, expecting unlimited praise for basically being white and Christian and being willing to bless the Hebrew nation with her White Christian Vagina. She endlessly objectifies Jewish men, belittled Jewish customs, and gleefull fulfilling the role of the Aryan Superwoman...excuse me, Shiksa Goddess, who of course would be adored by Jewish men because of the thrill of taboo and her innate superiority.
5. Maybe she should have had a Jewish editor to go along with the boyfriends because Shiksa derived from the Hebrew term שקץ shekets, meaning "abomination", "impure," or "object of loathing", It is not a quaint term for non-Jewish women. It is the equivalent of calling someone a filthy worthless whore.
6. This entire book is based on the racist and xenophobic American stereotype of Jewish men being upper middle class, materialistic, liberal, weak, urban, mamma's boys. It is offensive, fetishising, and extremely demeaning to the people she claims to love so much. Even if a racist stereotype is framed as a positive, it still diminishes someone's humanity.
7. Along with Jewish men being pushovers, Jewish women are harpies, and non-Jewish woman are manipulative man-eaters. Really, she does a terrible job of promoting herself as the heroine of her own story/guide/nightmare.
8. You will learn nothing of value about the Jewish faith or culture from this book. You will learn nothing about having a healthy and productive interfaith relationship.
9. Of course, her recipes are not Kosher. Yes, seduce your man by trying to induce him to betray the ideals of his forefathers, or because you are too lazy to learn our dietary laws, or because you actively get off at watching this person conform to your will, that's some wife material if I ever saw it.
10. This book contains about 50-80 pages of worthless filler just to pad out this crap to a reasonable page count. So not only is it trite and offensive, but it keeps going on and on about how trite and offensive it is.
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW:
-Look, if you want to date Moshe because he's a nice guy, that's cool, get to know him and his culture by asking questions.
-If you want to date Moshe because he's a Jew and you think Jews are genetically predisposed to being good boyfriends that are going to have you dripping in diamonds because White Girl puss is apparently magic, that's not cool. You need to go away with that noise.
-If you don't understand the difference between those two motivations, then you probably should stick to dating inanimate things that will have no problem with you objectifying them for your amusement.
Oh and just one more thing....
FETISHISING...JEWISH...MEN...IS...ANTI-SEMITIC...BEHAVIOUR! Grow up and knock it off
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