Hannah Sto Helit
@hannahstohelit.bsky.social
"You know, between the dames and the horses, sometimes I don't know why I even put my hat on."
-Arthur Shappey
-Arthur Shappey
![The model for Raffles was George Ives, a Cambridge-educated criminologist and talented cricketer, according to Andrew Lycett. Hornung and Ives played cricket for the Authors Cricket Club. Ives was privately homosexual and although Hornung "may not have understood this sexual side of Ives' character", Raffles "enjoys a remarkably intimate relationship with his sidekick Bunny Manders".[4] Owen Dudley Edwards writes that Raffles and Bunny are "an imitation of Holmes and Watson which is very obviously homosexual",[5] while C. P. Snow, in a 1975 review, describes their relationship as juvenile and innocent but with homosexual undertones.[6] Raffles is also shown to have romantic relationships with the Neapolitan girl Faustina (in "The Fate of Faustina") and an artist using the name Jacques Saillard (in "An Old Flame"). Biographer Peter Rowland notes that these relationships are not shown until the second Raffles story collection, The Black Mask.[7]
Rowland writes that Raffles and Manders were also fictionalised versions of Oscar Wilde and his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas.[8]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:raurqhul6n7ha5gxwttfppdz/bafkreiderambvjo4ogq3rqmpz24me3efhdxddal4ktqitbxixacgvfsaam@jpeg)
For example… blew my mind to discover that prewar Jewish Poland had male impersonators who performed in more or less chassidishe levush (but maybe it shouldn’t have?)
December 9, 2024 at 1:14 PM
For example… blew my mind to discover that prewar Jewish Poland had male impersonators who performed in more or less chassidishe levush (but maybe it shouldn’t have?)
![Photo is an Instagram post by aufoto_98: “today at 4am a synagogue built my Holocaust survivors was fire bombed. The architect of the synagogue was my zaida (grandfather). At 2am this morning my zaida passed away, we are thankful that we never had to tell him of such news. After surviving the Holocaust my zaida came to Australia with just his mother to rebuild his life. My zaida did more than just rebuild his life, through passion and devotion he rebuilt a community, helping design and build countless community buildings. In the memory [of] my zaida, you can try [to] burn down our buildings but you’ll never be able to burn down our Jewish spirit[.] May his memory be a blessing.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:raurqhul6n7ha5gxwttfppdz/bafkreidxtnxmndae7cvertqbhacpgxuci3ufitawt2eu5hfzuhvtuql6ri@jpeg)