Join us next week for this event with Jaclyn Granick, PhD of @CUHistArchRel, who will discuss Jewish Humanitarianism and East Central Europe in the Age of the Great War.

Co-organised by #SSEES , UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies & I.P.J.S. POLIN.

🗓️ 9 May at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
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With #BridgertonS3 coming up, here's my piece for Jewish Women's Archive about historical romance novels, Jewish romance fiction, and my Stanford Press book about mixed dancing. With shout outs to AlinaAdams_Author Felicia Grossman 💜(updates only) Rose Lerner. Journal of Popular Romance Studies
jwa.org/blog/scandalou…

So honored to receive this award and truly looking forward!

On 20 May, Dr William Pimlott, our Postdoctoral Research Fellow, will be the keynote speaker at the 'Re-reading, Re-framing, and Re-membering' conference hosted at Queen Mary University of London by the New Generation Group of the Jewish Historical Society of England JHSE New Generation Group.

The Katz Center is pleased to partner with the Philadelphia Athenaeum for this second program in a series on Jews in the arts--free and in person, May 1st at 2pm!

Looking forward to my book talk 'Scandal on the Dance Floor: Mixed Dancing and Jewish Modernity' at 2 pm on May 1, hosted by The Athenaeum of Philadelphia and Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Stanford Press AOA

katz.sas.upenn.edu/events/scandal…

Join us on Tuesday 21st May at Queen Mary University London from 3-6pm for a special screening of Fill the Void a Feminist Film?🎬📽

The film will be followed by a discussion with Dr Karen E. H. Skinazi

Tonight 7pm ET!

Getting ready for the New York premiere of Tea Arciszewska’s “Miryeml” The YIVO Institute, directed by caraid o'brien, wonderful cast including Alona Bach Dylan Seders Hoffman Mikhl. My Yiddish Book Center supported translation.

Tonight 7pm ET (and on Zoom). yivo.org/Miryeml

Peacock costume worn #onthisday in 1941 by ballerina Marina Francaby at the Cinderella Ball to raise money for the National Association of Day Nurseries at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, NY. #OTD 📷 Weegee ICP Waldorf Astoria New York

Join us at UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies on 9 May for what promises to be a fascinating talk by Jaclyn Granick, PhD of @CUHistArchRel on Jewish Humanitarianism and East Central Europe in the Age of the Great War. Organised with UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies and I.P.J.S. POLIN. Françoïs Guesnet Sonia Gollance, PhD ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events/2…

Read all about the Yinglish Mikado, from Tamiment to Hollywood. My new piece in The Forward explores how Danny Kaye, Jerome Robbins & eventually Judy Garland were part of an evolving showbiz legend starting in the fraught summer of 1939. “Mikado?” “Avade!”
forward.com/culture/602149…

Catch the New York premiere of Tea Arciszewska's haunting modernist drama 'Miryeml' tomorrow The YIVO Institute (7pm ET in person or on Zoom). caraid o'brien Mikhl Digital Yiddish Thtr 24/6: Jewish Theater

אַ דאַנק פֿאַר אַ וווּנדערלעכן סעזאָן 🎭 — Sonia Gollance, PhD Tamara Micner תּמרה מיצנער David Schneider — איצט אינעם פארווערטס
forward.com/yiddish/601789…

We're looking for a theatre producer for my new panto 'Yankl & Der Beanstalk'. Working towards a production this winter and supporting with marketing, fundraising, venue liaising, budgeting. Paid! DM me if you'd like to chat. Some recent pics: photos.app.goo.gl/ySJiEo6yd9Bdvn… Please RT!

Just one week until the hybrid reading of my translation of Tea Arciszewska's 'Miryeml' The YIVO Institute, directed by caraid o'brien. Wonderful cast, including Alona Bach and Dylan Seders Hoffman. UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies Yiddish Book Center

Thursday, April 18 at 7 pm (ET).
yivo.org/Miryeml

Di shvartse khevre: nyu-york bay tog un bay nacho by John Paley, New York, 1900 (YIVO Library)

Early trashy Yiddish novel describing the drinking, gambling, and carousing that went on in NYC at the turn of the 20th century.

Editor of Yidishes tageblat, Paley often invented 1/2

Full Professor of Jewish Studies with a Focus on Source History and Cultural History at the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna. Deadline for applications: 15th April 2024.
eurojewishstudies.org/positions/full…

I am thrilled to share Sonia Gollance's stunning new translation of Tea Arciszewska's MIRYEML with an incredible cast of children and adults. On zoom or in person April 18th at the Center for Jewish History yivo.org/Miryeml The YIVO Institute Sonia Gollance, PhD

Thanks to Viktoria Pötzl for reviewing my 'must-read' Stanford Press book 'It Could Lead to Dancing' in Feminist German Studies (@womeningerman). Prof Pötzl writes: 'The book is superbly written, profound, sophisticated, and at the same time intelligible.' muse.jhu.edu/article/917813