hmm to her credit the LOC reference librarian I dealt with cannot understand why my request was never fulfilled after a year and is ordering the materials to scan for me herself. and to try and figure out why Duplication Services ignore any communication from me. that is really above and beyond.

www.kveller.com/klezmer-musi...

Klezmer Music Is Having a Revival – Kveller

When you hear the word “klezmer,” what comes to mind? Images of a black-and-white world of shtetl dwellers plonking away on an accordion? Tevye fiddling on the roof? Maybe a grandparent or great-grand...

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A friend moved to a new state for a job and was laid off after just three months. He's had a hard time of things for the last few years—please help me raise funds to help him through an extremely bad time. 📚 www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Donate to Support for a Trans Librarian, organized by Violet Fox

Hello! My name is Violet Fox and I'm raising money for a friend, a trans librarian who rece… Violet Fox needs your support for Support for a Trans Librarian

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the only truly liberatory genre of music is jizz, the music of the Rebellion. starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Jizz

Jizz

Jizz was a genre of music. Jizz-wailers were musicians who specialized in the genre. Maximilian Rebo and his band were popular Jizz-wailers.[1] Jizz was first mentioned in canon in Star Wars: Return o...

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such a bad idea for a museum, failing their educational purpose IMO

Shawn Graham@electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · yesterday

hmmm. https://ottawacitizen.com/news/canadian-museum-of-history-ai-chatbot

Peretz Centre here in Vancouver is hiring if u know anyone interested in working for a progressive Yiddishist/Jewish org. you have to already be entitled to work in British Columbia, pays CDN$55K annually, w/benefits.

Job Posting: Event & Rentals Coordinator (2026)

Application Deadline: August 16, 2026 | The Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture is hiring an Event & Rentals Coordinator to join our small team and take an active role in event logistics and venu...

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Rokhl Korn was the highlight of my day today. Pissing down, but at least there was a poem or two.

depresses me that my faves are in last place and that all the front runners are so unworthy of being in charge of a major city. I can live with Fry but still not thrilled

Polling Canada@canadianpolling.bsky.social · yesterday

Vancouver - Mayoral Polling: 🟡Sim (ABC): 30% 🔴Allam (LIB): 19% 🟢Fry (GRN): 19% 🔵Hardwick (TEAM): 14% 🟣Bligh (VOTE): 7% ⚪️Azaroff (ONE): 5% 🟠Allen (COPE): 4% Research Co. / Aug 1, 2026

"Smukt a Sigaret mit a Reputayshon" 😐 from the Forverts, 5 Dec 1901

Will gleefully take the opportunity to point out: the lack of a regional rail/bus network is an ENORMOUS GAP in our region. Montreal: EXO Toronto: GO Seattle: Sound Transit Miami (?): Trirail Vancouver: N/A Imagine one of these leaving Abby every 30m to downtown, Surrey Central and the Airport?

The Bus. From GO. The GO Bus.

YouTube video by GO Transit

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦@jmcelroy.bsky.social · yesterday

I don’t know what the best highway between two cities is in British Columbia. But I do know that Langley to Abbotsford is the worst.

Great discussion at the 'crisis in UK history' meeting hosted by @ihr.bsky.social, @royalhistsoc.org, @histassoc.bsky.social and History UK. Horror stories of closures and redundancies, balanced by new resources. Check out for ex. the new Independent Historians Network independenthistorians.org

Independent Historians Network

The place for independent and freelance historians to connect

independenthistorians.org

Peretz Centre here in Vancouver is hiring if u know anyone interested in working for a progressive Yiddishist/Jewish org. you have to already be entitled to work in British Columbia, pays CDN$55K annually, w/benefits.

Job Posting: Event & Rentals Coordinator (2026)

Application Deadline: August 16, 2026 | The Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture is hiring an Event & Rentals Coordinator to join our small team and take an active role in event logistics and venu...

peretz-centre.org

Hey man, maybe just make the sandwiches and take a pic of them.

such a bad idea for a museum, failing their educational purpose IMO

Shawn Graham@electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · yesterday

hmmm. https://ottawacitizen.com/news/canadian-museum-of-history-ai-chatbot

"Smukt a Sigaret mit a Reputayshon" 😐 from the Forverts, 5 Dec 1901

beyond my research area, I think, but this part YIVO's UHT collection is just a scrapbook with all kinds of interesting goodies from the 1920s about communist all night parties, coop housing, summer camps, etc etc! archives.cjh.org/repositories...

A Pawlo Humeniuk recreationist group from Ukraine (US Orchestra)—not only that, but that's a big part of their work—followed me back on IG after I kept posting about him😁✨I should write to them if I get around to ordering some of his copyright scores as I intend to...

I, by US Orchestra

7 track album

ukrainska-silska-orchestra.bandcamp.com

Another window into why even non-profit housing is so expensive. Saanich delays led to an extra $9milliom (!!) in costs. No one in Saanich is held accountable so they keep dragging their feet and increasing costs. bcbusiness.ca/real-estate/...

Can B.C. fix the red tape stalling affordable housing? The Anglican Church says yes

The Anglican Church says years of municipal delays are making affordable housing in B.C. more expensive—and is calling for a six-month approval cap.

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beyond my research area, I think, but this part YIVO's UHT collection is just a scrapbook with all kinds of interesting goodies from the 1920s about communist all night parties, coop housing, summer camps, etc etc! archives.cjh.org/repositories...

lots of letters and reports in English and Yiddish about this musician union graft accusations & investigations in the UHT YIVO collection. not Secunda, Olshanetsky and Rumshinsky, say it ain't so 😂😭(they did not orchestrate the graft but profited from it) archives.cjh.org/repositories...

Dan Carkner@alte.klezmor.im · last wk.

some local 802 members were being paid the union rate but then forced to pay kickbacks to the theatre owners or contractors, and the remnants of the Musical Theatrical Club was part of it.

Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x

finally finished my latest blog post which I've been working on for the last few weeks after I got interested in E 2nd Street and its klezmer connection. I definitely went from "wow this is neat" to "WTF am I doing" over the past month, but I may as well document it🤪

"When a university is bombed, it is not just a building that is destroyed but a place where thought is created... When a library is burned, the possibility for a young generation to engage with its past is burned." www.972mag.com/archiving-ga...

The battle to save Gaza’s cultural heritage

A new book documents efforts to preserve millennia of culture, refusing to surrender to the enclave’s destruction while laying foundations for its future.

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It opens at 11am and I hear some VIPs are expected from various levels of government

Vancouver Is Awesome@viawesome.bsky.social · 5d ago

50 years, one neighbourhood: Japanese Powell Street Festival returns this long weekend

finally finished my latest blog post which I've been working on for the last few weeks after I got interested in E 2nd Street and its klezmer connection. I definitely went from "wow this is neat" to "WTF am I doing" over the past month, but I may as well document it🤪

Glad someone senior from the sector is pushing back. Labour MPs need to understand the serious real anger from graduates and the people who produce them. And the dangerous financial situation they have allowed to fester, or indeed worsened, in one of Britain’s leading sectors.

Labour has harmed universities as much as Trump, London School of Economics head says

LSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurance

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Starting a new baby quilt tonight and finally rewatching Orphan Black for the first time since it aired 🫣📺 was obsessed with it back then, it's the appropriate amount of talky to accompany this task🪡😯

I interviewed independent climate reporter and notable mayo-hater @kendrawrites.com for recommendations about how journalists should cover wildfires and smoke: emergencymode.news/no-longer-ni...

No Longer Niche: How Journalists Cover Wildfires and Smoke · Emergency Mode for News

As wildfires and smoke become more frequent and widespread due to climate change, news coverage needs to be more creative, comprehensive, and anticipatory.

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On Aug. 5th, I'll lead a Lower East Side walking tour for YIVO "In the Footsteps of Yiddish Women Writers." We'll learn about the Yiddish press and some of the best-known women writers, as well as some of the protagonists of my latest research. @uclhjs.bsky.social www.yivo.org/Women-Writer...

In the Footsteps of Yiddish Women Writers: A Walking Tour | YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

In this Lower East Side walking tour led by Dr. Sonia Gollance, participants will visit sites associated with both celebrated and less-familiar women writers.

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