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Sean Sidky

@ssidky.bsky.social

Teaching & writing about American Judaism, Holocaust lit., Yiddish, & Pedagogy | He/him/his

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Rachel@rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m playing “Quartet,” a video game in which the ghost of Maimonides (living in a golem) lectures a Nazi about ethics using teachings from the “Shmoneh Perakim.”

Screenshot from “Quartet.” Two sprite-based figures stand in a ruined living room. In the background is a faded memory of Nikolai, a fantasy-Nazi soldier, confronting fantasy-Jews in their home. The figure in the center of the room, facing the player, is named “Maimun,” and is wearing a long robe, a turban, and a medal around his neck, consistent with visual depictions of Maimonides. He is saying “Making the right choice consists of walking the path between excess and deficiency.”
Rachel@rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My husband is playing an RPG called “Quartet,” & it has a character who’s an ancient golem named “Zikaron.” Zikaron is controlled by the spirit of a dead sage named “Maimon.” Love me some fantasy-Jew rep! Gonna have to play it myself soon.

Matt Gabriele@profgabriele.com · last yr.

yoooooooo go get books from @bookshop.org the ebook of mine & @lollardfish.bsky.social's THE BRIGHT AGES is $1.99!!!!!! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe

A New History of Medieval Europe

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Litbowl@litbowl.bsky.social · last yr.

What a lovely message from @bookshop.org. Glad to see them growing and growing. We CAN claim back what has been taken from us by these monstrous corporations, and it starts with things like this. Grab some books these next couple days!

Sean Sidky@ssidky.bsky.social · 2y ago

Sitting in a cafe overhearing *another* older white dude arguing for making a Great Books curriculum mandatory. Not uncommon but it feels increasingly ominous at this moment.

Sean Sidky@ssidky.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is a bad decision. The time I’ve spent writing, talking about, and helping others with diversity statements. theirs has done more to improve my teaching, relationship to teaching, and care for students than any formal pedagogy training I ever had.

SE Strongman@strongman.bsky.social · 2y ago

Just announced ahead of the regents’ meeting today: “The University of Michigan will no longer solicit diversity statements as part of faculty hiring, promotion and tenure.” As far as I can tell, units won’t even have the option of soliciting them anymore.

Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑@emilylhauser.bsky.social · 2y ago

holy fuck "Sorry about that complication in your by-pass surgery. That last hour of anesthesia is on you."

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2y ago

Blue Cross Blue Shield in Connecticut, New York and Missouri has declared it will no longer pay for anesthesia for the full length of some surgeries. It the procedure goes over a certain time, anesthesia will not be covered for the duration. www.asahq.org/about-asa/ne...

Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑@emilylhauser.bsky.social · 2y ago

🧵I want to engage with Snyder's On Tyranny but first want to express my admiration. It's an extraordinary distillation of a century of lessons that remain largely unlearned about democracy & fascism into a rigorous & actionable primer on recognizing & confronting American tyranny. Please read it.

Sean Sidky@ssidky.bsky.social · 2y ago

In the summer of 2011, a New Yorker told me off because I called a subway train “a train”. “That’s not a train, it’s the subway,” they said, as if that was an ok thing to say out loud.

Sean Sidky@ssidky.bsky.social · 2y ago

Saul is a scholar and person I have admired for years. His research is engaged and nuanced; it speaks to the biggest questions in literary studies, Yiddish Studies, Jewish Studies, translation studies, Comparative Literature, and many other fields. Harvard absolutely failed him and themselves.

Harvard Denied Its Only Yiddish Professor Tenure. Did the Process Fail Him? | News | The Harvard Crimson

When Yiddish studies professor Saul Noam Zaritt was denied tenure in June at the direction of Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76, Zaritt’s own tenure review committee was stunned. They say Harvard m...

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David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Like all empires, this one rested on a foundation of lies." #Oathbreakers, out from @harpercollins.bsky.social on 12/10. The story of how Charlemagne's grandsons fought a brutal civil war and shattered the Frankish Empire. SIGNED COPY GIVEAWAY. Repost to enter. First drawing 7 pm CST USA. /1

Oathbreakers

The authors of The Bright Ages return with a real-life Game of Thrones—the story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother against brother, father against son, that wou...

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Shaily Patel@vox-magica.bsky.social · 2y ago

“about 61% of core tutorial teaching is done by academics on fixed-term contracts or in hourly-paid roles.” yes, come on journalists, more about adjunctification everywhere. tell people about “elite” institutions.

Kathleen E. Kennedy@themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is actually full of good reporting on casualization of UKHE at even the most prestigious institutions. And the fact that the Observer pressed Christ Church directly on ad wording, and then reported on the college's sidestepping is nothing short of astonishing.