Taking advantage of Labor Day weekend (🚩) to wax poetic about @miriamudel.bsky.social and her upcoming translation of LABZIK: TALES OF A CLEVER PUP for a moment sunypress.edu/Books/L/Labzik
Alona Bach
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Archive haunter (where history of technology + Yiddish meet); theater-maker; rogue illustrator. Current postdoc @ Tenement Museum; PhD from MIT History/HASTS. she/her | 📷: Der praktisher elektrotekhniker (1925)
My dept is looking to hire a Yiddishist to teach 4 Yiddish language & literature classes in 2026-2027 (& hopefully beyond). Application deadline: June 12. Great opportunity in the best city. I'm available to answer any questions. Please spread the word. mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...
Course Lecturer Jewish Studies 281 (Introductory Yiddish 1)
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In spring 1917, playwright Jane Rose published the first installment of a Yiddish play offering a portrait of working-class family life & a critique of early-20th-century sexual mores. An excerpt of my translation of CRACKED is now up: www.yiddishbookcenter.org/discover/yid...
"In order for Yiddish to thrive, every Yiddish student must be a teacher, and every Yiddish teacher must be a student." Andy Roshal on peer-to-peer communicative language instruction & variationist, dialect-rich pedagogy. ingeveb.org/pedagogy/pee...
Peer-to-Peer Pedagogy: Reflections from a College Campus | In geveb
For there to be a Yiddish-speaking community at Oberlin, someone needed to teach the community Yiddish. It seemed that that someone, despite my inexperience and
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Introducing our keynote speakers for Farbindungen 2026: Yiddish at Work, taking place Feb 15th-16th, virtually. We're beyond excited and honored to have Caroline Luce and Miriam Udel headlining our program this year. Call for papers and submission form can be found at bit.ly/Farbindungen26Submission
What do the “Father of the Bund” & a Yiddish electrical engineering textbook have in common? Find out: blog.cjh.org/index.php/20... A groysn dank to YIVO archivist Jess Podhorcer & the CJH for the chance to write about the Vilna Technicum and the making of Yiddish-speaking engineers.
Electrical Engineering in Yiddish: The Vilna Technicum (and Beyond)
By Alona Bach, Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Short-Term Graduate Public History Fellow Electrical Engineering in Yiddish: The Vilna Technicum (and Beyond) “Up to this point, there has not been a single b
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NEW Pedagogy piece: Scientific Literature in the Yiddish Classroom If you use this material in your classroom--let us know! 🦚 ingeveb.org/pedagogy/sci...
Scientific Literature in the Yiddish Classroom: A Lesson Based on a Page from a Chemistry Textbook | In geveb
Working with authentic material from Yiddish scientific and technical textbooks enables teachers to sharpen students’ grammatical and lexical awareness and to h
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And...we're off! @contrastsmag.bsky.social is a new digital magazine focused on the intersections of science, technology, & society ( #STS, #HistSTM ). Our first issue on "portals" considers passageways between worlds—from apprenticeships to AI, maps to migration. Read the issue: contrastsmag.net
"Incomplete mourning, being unable to fully talk about what was lost, means that you’re perpetually haunted." — @rokhl.bsky.social on ghosts, IRB forms, Purim shpiels, perfume, and her new play Shtumer Shabes.
In geveb@ingeveb.bsky.social · last yr.Jonathan L. Green speaks with Rokhl Kafrissen about Shtumer Shabes, her new play about the complications and contradictions in the last century of Yiddish theatre and Jewish life. ingeveb.org/blog/incompl...
Raboysay (/robotsay 🤖)! One more week to send us your Yiddish sci-fi submissions. We're especially keen for pitches for the blog and pedagogy sections — on incorporating Yiddish sci-fi into the classroom, interviews, reviews, blog-length thoughts on techno-messianism or dys/utopia, and more!
In geveb@ingeveb.bsky.social · last yr.We have extended the deadline for submissions to our special issue on "Yiddish Science Fiction" to Monday, May 5th. We seek submissions for our blog, pedagogy, and translation sections, as well as a special section of minyaturn. More information: ingeveb.org/blog/call-fo...
#PosenLibrary is introducing a new initiative - Posen Library Digital Curriculum Development Fellowship, to help create educational materials for Posen Library digital platform. For more info: www.posenlibrary.com/fellowship #DHJewish #JewishEducation #CurriculumDevelopment
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The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, curated by leading Jewish studies scholars, is an anthology of texts and images containing thousands of sources—and growing.
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Send us your airships, your dystopias, your wired masses yearning to breathe free—af yidish! Submissions for our @ingeveb.bsky.social special issue on Yiddish sci-fi are due Mon, 28 April.
In geveb@ingeveb.bsky.social · last yr.You have *ONE WEEK* to send your submissions on science fiction in Yiddish: — Blog (reviews, short essays, interviews, etc.) — Pedagogy (teaching guides) — Texts & Translations, including miniyaturn (100-250 word narratives in Yiddish, with English translations). ingeveb.org/blog/call-fo...
A Yiddish prank of yore: "Take 2 tsp of cold milk, mix w/ 2 tsp of cold water, squeeze in 4 drops of lemon juice & mix well. Dip a clean handkerchief in the fluid & lightly dampen empty area. Hold it against the sun & you'll see a cartoon." —Der groyser kundes (March 31, 1911), p. 11.
CFP for ContraSTS / Issue: "Portals" / due March 1 ContraSTS is an online magazine run by MIT graduate students, featuring public-facing #STS and #histSTM works at the intersections of science, technology, and society. More info & pitch: contrastsmagazine.github.io
What other social and technological futures have we imagined, feared, hoped for—af yidish? Help us imagine, remember, and consider alternative possibilities by submitting to @ingeveb.bsky.social 's special issue on #Yiddish #scifi. Full CFP: ingeveb.org/blog/call-fo...
In geveb@ingeveb.bsky.social · 2y agoCall for Submissions: Yiddish Science Fiction!! We invite submissions to a special issue of In geveb on “Yiddish Science Fiction" with guest editors Alona Bach, Sebastian Schulman, and Dalia Wolfson. Submissions are due April 28. See the link for further details. https://buff.ly/416QaB1
Margaret Partridge bit.ly/3anO3yg & Margaret Rowbotham en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare... Partners in life & #engineering 1962 wrote joint letter of grandmotherly advice on joys of retirement: designing sports pavilion, converting stately home in2 boys school. Buried together #LGBTHM24 #ValentinesDay
This sounds like a wonderful project — Haslett's correspondence is fascinating, lively, and a crucial part of UK engineering/electric history (with the WES, EAW, and beyond!). #histSTM
Graeme Gooday@graemegooday.bsky.social · 2y agoCollaborative PhD history of science/technology studentship now available at University of Leeds on the marvellous Caroline Haslett and her international networks wrocah.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
Really looking forward to this #Farbindungen25 panel on Yiddish theater, featuring Rebecca Turner on Jane Rose's NIT MIT ALEMEN (a favorite play!), @bluma.bsky.social on Leivick (!!), and Yael Horowitz on reviving a Polish Yiddish cabaret tune/dance, with @ruthieabeliovich.bsky.social moderating.
Farbindungen Yiddish Studies Conference@farbindungen.bsky.social · 2y agoIntroducing! מיר שטעלן פֿאָר! The fifth panel of #Farbindungen25 is "Mitn linkn fus: Stigma on the Yiddish Stage." Featuring Rebecca Turner, Bluma Lange, and Yael Horowitz, with Ruthie Abeliovich. Register today, link in bio!
Fan studies, Crisco recipes, Yiddish lesboerotica — what more could you ask for in a #Farbindungen25 panel on "Practice as Method"? And with the eyn-un-eyntsike @evejochnowitz.bsky.social moderating, at that! Join us virtually by registering here: bit.ly/registerfarb...
Farbindungen Yiddish Studies Conference@farbindungen.bsky.social · 2y agoIntroducing! מיר שטעלן פֿאָר! The third panel of #Farbindungen25 is "Doing (not so) Badly: Practice as Method." Featuring Rachel Greiner, Grisha Leyfer, and Hinde Ena Burstin, with Eve Jochnowitz. Register today, link in bio!
Introducing! מיר שטעלן פֿאָר! The second panel of #Farbindungen25 is "Dos heyst taytsh? Unfaithful Translation." Featuring Rebecca Weingart, Uri Horesh, and Pamela Brenner, with Sunny Yudkoff. Register today, link in bio!
"Aroysgeshtelt." —Cartoon from April 23, 1920, by Lola (Leon Israel) in Der groyser kundes, a #Yiddish biweekly humor magazine, p. 3.
This is such a helpful and long overdue piece that demonstrates @annsplaining.bsky.social’s meticulous research about women’s spirituality and spiritual leadership in Jewish Eastern Europe.
Annie Gottfried Cohen@annsplaining.bsky.social · 2y agoExcited to see this published in the @jwaonline.bsky.social Encyclopedia. jwa.org/encyclopedia... Sharing with one of the photos featured in the article, from the YIVO archives: a group of professional klogerins (mourning women) in Brody 1920s-1930s
1930s illustrations of Zelmenyaner characters: Uncle Zishe, Uncle Folye, Uncle Itshe, and Tsalke. - Zishe & Fole by Kh. M. Faynshteyn, reprinted in Dos vort [Kovne/Kaunas] (Feb 7, 1936). - Itshe & Tsalke in Shtraln [biweekly children's magazine] (1 June, 1938), p14. Via NLI/HJP.
#Farbindungen25 Bad Yiddish is in just two weeks! Take a look at the full schedule below to learn more about this year's panels, workshops, and keynote. The conference runs February 2-3. Register here - bit.ly/registerfarbindungen25 Full-text schedule - bit.ly/Farbindungen...
"In the confluence of Christmas and Hanukkah, in the days of the Yiddish New York festival, [Isaac Bashevis] Singer's ghosts and his language live on to haunt us." forward.com/culture/thea... Playing until Jan 15 @ Theatre 154.
While Yiddish lives, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s ghost stories may flourish
"Bashevis' Demons" stages three stories from Isaac Bashevis Singer, from the occult to the musings of a rooster.
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Marina Mayorski reviews Ayelet Brinn's A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press: "A Revolution in Type offers a timely and forceful contribution to the study of Jewish history, culture, and gender." https://buff.ly/3DiHj76
Truly a wonderful time getting to chat with @sophielizbear.bsky.social about technology & US-American Judaism (and a lot of Yiddish) at the Skirball! (It seems the online version of the paper is footnote-less; let me know if you'd rather read the footnoted version.) Meanwhile, importantly — [cont.]
S. Shoulson / שׂ. בערעלע@sophielizbear.bsky.social · 2y agoWe had a lovely time at the Skirball Cultural Center last night, and I highly recommend reading @bachwards.bsky.social’s prize-winning essay! www.skirball.org/2023-24-reci...