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.
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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

Looking forward to reading Maya Vinokour’s new book, “Work Flows: Stalinist Liquids in Russian Labor Culture.” What a great cover! Cornell University Press NYU Jordan Center maybe: leif weatherby

🚨🗣️ Call for Papers! Postgraduate Conference on Jewish Studies in Scandinavia We encourage creative proposals centring on Jewish ideas, objects, individuals, and communities in the broad Nordic region.
Closes 8 April 2024
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Today!

This was a wonderful talk from Sonia Gollance, PhD, looking at Yiddish plays written by women, including fascinating insights into “Miryeml” and its author Tea Arciszewska.

Helena Bibowa, the oldest and only surviving native speaker of a tiny language called Wymysiöeryś is turning 102 today.
In honor of that, let me take you along on the story of Wymysiöeryś.
It's of death and resurrection, and a hefty deal of random, but I promise it's a happy one.

#Yiddish academic job! Non-tenure track lectureship in Yiddish Studies at Ohio State. Housed within the Germanic Languages and Literatures Department, which has very lovely colleagues. AJS OhioStateJewish Studies osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/job…

Today!

Sonia Gollance, PhD charts Jewish engagement with European society in the long nineteenth century through exploring social dancing, positioning it as both a forbidden leisure and marker of social acceptance. Read here: jvc.oup.com/2022/04/11/jew…

Please join us, NYU German Dept., and NYU Jordan Center on 4/3 at 2 PM for a public lecture by Sonia Gollance, PhD 'Like the Montagues at the Capulets’ Ball: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity' with a response by Maya Vinokour. More details and RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

A beautiful Megillah written in 1750 in Brody, Ukraine. As early as 1648, 400 Jewish families are recorded living in Brody. The Megillah is housed in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale.

On Weds, March 27 at 4:30 PM, I'll be giving a talk about my Stanford Press book 'It Could Lead to Dancing' CJS, followed by Yiddish dancing w/live klezmer music. Really looking forward to this!

Uri Schreter Pamela B Saul Noam Zaritt Alona Bach
cjs.fas.harvard.edu/calendar_event…

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Join us TONIGHT as David Mazower (of Yiddish Book Center & former BBC News (UK) editor) takes us on a journey around the world in Yiddish culture.

🕖7.30pm🎟️FREE💻Zoom
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You can hear me talk more about the bonkers Purim ball in Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's bonkers novella 'Der Judenraphael' on April 3rd NYU German Dept. NYU Jordan Center Deutsches Haus (response by Maya Vinokour). maybe: leif weatherby Stanford Press as.nyu.edu/research-cente…

Thanks so much to Vanessa Freedman and the UCL HJS Collection team for organizing a beautiful display of Yiddish materials from UCL Special Collections for my History of Yiddish class.

Among the items was a 1959 copy of “Miryeml” — you can hear a reading of my translation tonight JW3.