We see that the #Yiddish folks are getting into the spirit of the spooky season! 💀 #mameloshn

We're sharing these traditional Sephardi and Ashkenazi words of comfort to all those in mourning during this difficult time.

Have you tried this unique Italian-Jewish specialty? Learn more about Judeo-#Italian at jewishlanguages.org/judeo-italian. Thanks to our intern Auden for this Fun Fact. @HUCJIR

One of our guiding themes this year is exploring Jewish languages through literature & narrative arts. So, we were delighted to hear about Dr. Nora Gold's new book "18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages," out now from Academic Studies Press. Mazels! 👏 academicstudiespress.com/cherry-orchard…

Baking and sharing food can be a source of comfort during challenging times. We cooked up today's Fun Fact by kneading together information from ANU - Museum of the Jewish People's database of Jewish family names and Alexander Beider's Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names.

Seeing a few #pumpkins around this week? 🎃 Here's a Fun Fact #fromthevault that explains what the #Ladino word for this gourd is doing in Judeo-Piedmontese. You can learn more about Judeo-Italian and its dialects at jewishlanguages.org/judeo-italian. Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

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Thanks to our colleague Dr. Jonas Sibony for sharing this proverb with us. 🎠 Dr. Sibony is Associate Professor Sorbonne Université Department of Arabic and Hebrew Studies. @HUCJIR JIMENA American Sephardi Federation (ASF) Wikitongues Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies

Apps due Dec. 4 to study #endangeredlanguages with our colleagues at Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages! Next term will include Judeo-Greek, Advanced Judeo-Turkish, Advanced Beginners Judeo-French, and Judeo-Tat. The OSRJL is part of our Consortium.🤝

Thanks to a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation Foundation, our team just published a new Wikipedia page for Judeo-Kashani! We hope this research helps to broaden public and scholarly awareness of this #endangered Jewish-Iranian language. Article link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judeo-Kas… @HUCJIR

You can read more about the word "nebekh" at our Jewish English Lexicon: jel.jewish-languages.org/words/399. Thank you to Jona van der Schelde, a linguist and Hebrew teacher in the Netherlands, for today's Fun Fact. @HUCJIR

Thanks @JustShteygin & Der Nister for organizing next month's LA meetup, & thanks The Forward for your support! We're excited to share insights from the field of J-langs & to preview what's on tap for the future.🤩 (and...SNACKS!) To RSVP: jewishlanguages.org/events @HUCJIR

Thank you פארווערטס for this great review of Isaac Bashevis Singer's "Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt: The War Years, 1939-1945," translated and edited by David Stromberg and available today from the Center's imprint, White Goat Press. Read the review: forward.com/forverts-in-en…

Shkoyekh Arun Schaechter Viswanath & Yugntruf - Kinder-Loshn Publications! We're pretty sure this is the first time we've seen a #Yiddish #kidlit story translated from Faroese (an Old-Norse-based language similar to #Icelandic). The original puffin tale was written & illustrated by Jenny Kjærbo.🐧🥚