LABZIK the proletpup could become a hipster classic among older teens. One of my summer students suggested it would helpful for it to be banned. What are the mechanics of making that happen? 🐾🐾🐾 sunypress.edu/Books/L/Labzik
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Studying how Jews meet modernity. Children’s lit—>democracy. Labzik, Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature @TIJSatEmory @yeshivatmaharat
Meet Berl. He’s a little grumbly, sometimes letting loose a gentle “dad curse.” But Berl’s got a heart of gold. What would he do if he saw a dog shivering on the elevated train platform in the rain? Wrap him up in the Morgen Freiheit and bring him home, of course! sunypress.edu/Books/L/Labzik
Big moves today here in LABZIK world: designing campaign buttons (featuring one very clever mug) for those who preorder the People's Pup 🐾 sunypress.edu/Books/L/Labzik
Pre-orders for LABZIK opened one week ago 🐾 Make sure you're one of the first people to meet the People's Pup on January 1st!
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@rcolesworthy.bsky.social we are not uniquely afflicted. Labzik brings out the punster in everyone!
Patrick@sobafett.bsky.social · last mo.Counting down to the UNLEASH date! Labzik will make his bark on children’s literature.
If you’re a fan of Click, Clack, Moo, then “The Birds Go On Strike” is indispensable. I wish I could observe @sobafett.bsky.social teaching!
Patrick@sobafett.bsky.social · last mo.On a related note, I told The Birds Go on Strike to my summer class of rising kindergarteners, and we had a great discussion afterwards about what it means to be a comrade and the power of collective action. My supervisor happened to walk in as I was starting the story, and she helped facilitate +
5/ If more of us, human and canine, emulated Labzik, the world would be such a better place. My deepest thanks to @miriamudel.bsky.social for bringing Labzik to us. What a gift these tail/tales are! 🐾🐾🐾🐾🐕
I’m eager to know how Sansa Anzovina responds!
Miriam Anzovin@miriamanzovin.bsky.social · last mo.4/ These magnificent stories are funny, sharp, and deeply compassionate. I hold Labzik in such high esteem that I’ve started reading these stories aloud to my own canine companion so she has a good role model in life.
Love this reading at a time when we are hungering for well founded hope!
Miriam Anzovin@miriamanzovin.bsky.social · last mo.3/ Labzik stands (on four paws) for what’s right. He shows solidarity with the working class, displays bravery in the face of oppression, and demonstrates a profound, protective love for his human companions. But more than anything, to me Labzik represents hope.
2/ Don’t worry: that’s a compliment. Look, my first word was “woof.” How else could I express the full emotional impact of meeting Labzik, this very, very good doggo?
Very anxious 5-10 minutes for me, when I sensed that something I’d said had driven one of my all-time sheroes from the room and didn’t yet know what. Now recollected in tranquility w gratitude for @miriamanzovin.bsky.social’s big ❤️ + big 🧠!
Miriam Anzovin@miriamanzovin.bsky.social · last mo.Shalom friends! Let me tell you a personal story about Labzik: On the day I first encountered Labzik, the iconic, lovable, and smart-AF Yiddish pup with a vibrant interior monologue and a deeply relatable search for belonging, I was so moved I ended up sobbing in a bathroom stall. 1/
Hey so remember when I told you all we were publishing a kids’ book about a communist (complimentary!) dog?? Meet Labzik!! 🐾 sunypress.edu/Books/L/Labzik
Miriam Udel@miriamudel.bsky.social · last mo.If you believe true American patriotism involves peaceful protest, moral courage, robust dissent, workers’ rights and canine hijinks, do something patriotic this holiday weekend and PREORDER LABZIK! @sunypress.bsky.social @rcolesworthy.bsky.social @shteyngart.bsky.social @miriamanzovin.bsky.social
If you believe true American patriotism involves peaceful protest, moral courage, robust dissent, workers’ rights and canine hijinks, do something patriotic this holiday weekend and PREORDER LABZIK! @sunypress.bsky.social @rcolesworthy.bsky.social @shteyngart.bsky.social @miriamanzovin.bsky.social
If your reaction to the creation of the world’s 1st millionaire is to crave a $9.95 book of stories that will teach the kids in your life about justice via the adventures of a “leftist Lassie,” I can’t help you today. But hang on: in about a month you can preorder LABZIK from @sunypress.bsky.social!
I’m so much happier when I can urge people to buy my book for $20 instead of $40. Seize the day!
Jill ONeill@jillmwo.bsky.social · 2mo agoSuch a dangerous thing to wander through a university press catalog when you know you have a magic discount code.
Anyone in the Berkshires on Sunday? Brunch-and-learn with me about How Mensches Were Made in Yiddish www.knessetisrael.org/event/brunch...
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“Feed the baby!” shades imperceptibly into “Nourish the child’s mind.” In this delicious review, Naomi Seidman samples everything I’m serving. 🥬🥬🍰🧁
Googling my book for a grant report, I was thrilled to happen upon this new review by the perceptive Caleb Sher in @ingeveb.bsky.social! @princetonupress.bsky.social ingeveb.org/articles/wha...
What Were Our Children Reading? Review of Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature by Miriam Udel | In geveb
In a word, Yiddish children’s literature, per Udel, has a long history, a series of stormy futures past, and a fraught yet fruitful and ongoing aftermath. Throu
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Blessing my fellow authors with such sensitive and thoughtful readers as @henrythedog.bsky.social and his human.
Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 2mo agoI don't have any answers, just questions, and I'd like to thank @miriamudel.bsky.social for helping foster more questions and giving me pages to think about how do you write a better world into being on the pages of Jewish Children's books, a live question today as it was 100 years ago.
It was delightful to revisit these lost worlds, and to given them the full thought and respect such well loved objects deserve and almost never get.
2-3x/wk, I get scammy come-ons from book marketers reminding me my three 5⭐️ reviews on Amazon mean my book is great but nobody is reading it. Demoralizing. One Dog Person (dog-person?) out there is reading it thoughtfully in real time. A mekhaye; may all authors find their @henrythedog.bsky.social
Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 3mo agostarted @miriamudel.bsky.social book since its late I'm only a few pages in, nice to read something well written though I have to say she does a good job of, without over doing it, driving home how the study of Jewish life between the wars is like picking flowers next to a howling abyss
Now priced more like the beach read this can be—if you read it at the beach!
Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 2mo agoSave 50% on @miriamudel.bsky.social's Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature with code SPRING50! Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #JAHM #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth
I just wanted to share this because 1. This is the kind of history I truly love, the history of the overlooked and every day, how did people actually live and think and the little things that inform the big things
Reviews of academic books are often anemic and seldom offered in real time. This one won’t be the former and seems like it will be the latter. 🍿👀
Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 3mo agostarted @miriamudel.bsky.social book since its late I'm only a few pages in, nice to read something well written though I have to say she does a good job of, without over doing it, driving home how the study of Jewish life between the wars is like picking flowers next to a howling abyss
It’s a beach read if you read it on a beach. Now priced more like one at $19.95! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature
How modern Yiddish children’s literature gave expression to emerging forms of Jewish identity
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