
Yetzirah: a hearth for Jewish poetry
@yetzirahpoets
Yetzirah is a literary nonprofit dedicated to fostering and supporting a community space for Jewish poets, nourishing writers and readers of Jewish poetry.
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Jessica Jacobs
@jessicalgjacobs
Author:@FourWayBooks, @sasquatchbooks, @SiblingRivPress. Chapbook Editor: @BPJTweets. Founder & Executive Director: @YetzirahPoets
Larry Yudelson
@yudel
Editorial director of Ben Yehuda Press, an independent publisher of Jewish books. Views expressed are my own. @babka.social
Rachel Mennies
@rmennies
author of THE NAOMI LETTERS @boaeditions & THE GLAD HAND OF GOD POINTS BACKWARDS @TTUPress | reviews editor @AGNIMagazine | poetry, also prose | she/her
Julie Sugar
@juliesugar
Writer and editor. From a lot of places and now in Chicago. Associate Publisher at Ben Yehuda Press and working on a memoir-in-essays.
Yugntruf - Kinder-Loshn Publications
@yugntruf
Promotes Yiddish by creating opportunities for learning/immersion. Publishes classic works of Yiddish kids lit in bilingual editions. kinderloshn.org
Amelia Glaser
@aglaser
Russian/Ukrainian/Yiddish literature; ocean swimmer; translator; author Songs in Dark Times @harvard_press, Jews and Ukrainians @NorthwesternUP
Other Press
@otherpress
Independent publisher of literary fiction and non-fiction.
Ben Yehuda Press
@benyehudapress
Independent Jewish books. We publish Judaism-as-it-is-becoming, not only Judaism-as-it-has-been. Out now: Judaism Disrupted by Rabbi Michael Strassfeld!
Conduit Magazine
@conduitmagazine
Conduit is inventive, irreverent, and darkly beautiful. We'll soon close this door. Please find us elsewhere. Wink wink. Also, billionaires BLOW.🇺🇦
ottilie mulzet @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social
@caringerel
THE EYE OF THE MONKEY by Krisztina Tóth - this fall from Seven Stories she/her/ő ᠡᠭᠡ ᠭᠡᠯᠡ ᠪᠡᠨ ᠠᠪᠤᠷᠠᠴᠠᠭᠠᠶ ᠠ! 🌈😷🏳️⚧️
Anna Shternshis
@shternsh
Professor of Yiddish Studies at @UofT, specialist in Russian Jewish history, culture and oral history, views are my own.
Cameron Bernstein
@c_o_bernstein
I make TikToks about Yiddish (at c.o.bernstein). Working on my MD. From Chicago, USA ➡️ Meeanjin/Brisbane, Australia. 25yo, she/זי/ella
G. Calvocoressi
@rocketfantastic
Just a non-binary lesbian in a Greek man’s kaftan. Harvard-Radcliffe Institute Fellow 22-23 . Opinions my own always.
erika meitner
@rikam99
poet, professor, parent, perambulator, author of 6 books including USEFUL JUNK @boaeditions, keeper of post-mfa.tumblr.com - find me @ rika99.bsky.social
leslie g
@lgbodytalk
Poet sites.google.com/view/the-poetr…
Eve Grubin
@evegrubin
Wrote MORNING PRAYER, THE HOUSE OF OUR FIRST LOVING and GRIEF DIALOGUE. Next book forthcoming from Four Way Books. PhD completed on The Poetics of Reticence.
Jesse Lee Kercheval
@jesselkercheval
poet, writer, translator, comics. @FieldmousePress @PittPoetry @UNMPress @tupelopress CW Prof UW-Madison, Poetry Editor @UWiscPress rep Gail Hochman
Lesléa Newman
@lesleanewman
Changing the world one book at a time. Author of HEATHER HAS TWO MOMMIES, SPARKLE BOY & others. Faculty member, Spalding University low-residency MFA program.
The YIVO Institute
@yivoinstitute
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research—preserving the world's largest archive of East European Jewry. Tweets with archival photographs, upcoming events, & news.
S. Shoulson - שׂ. בערעלע
@sophielizbear
Sophia. PhD candidate @JHUArtsSciences studying Yiddish literature and print culture. she/her. ‘Hunt and hope’ typist. On the cloudy blue app w/ same handle.
Asymptote Journal
@asymptotejrnl
The premier site for world literature. London Book Fair Award winner. Free quarterly issues, daily blog. Sign up for newsletters: tinyurl.com/asymptoteme
Diane Gottlieb
@dianegotauthor
Founder of WomanPause-amplifying voices of women over 50. 2021 @tiferetjournal Nonfiction Prize. 2021 Dancing in the Rain Fellow. Prose/CNF Ed. @EmergeJournal.
Mikhl
@mikhldarling
yidishist, teater-mentsh, khuligán
Alan Brill
@kavvanah
Professor at Seton Hall @JCST_SHU of Interfaith, Jewish Thought, Spirituality, Modern Orthodoxy, and Kabbalah. find me on my blog.
Learn Yiddish
@yiddishclasses
Your source for information on Yiddish classes, courses, summer programs and seminars around the world. I will tweet any/all Yiddish educational opportunities.
Cassie Mannes Murray
@cassmannes
Director of book publicity @pinestatepub. MFA @uncwcrw. Mom to P & E.
Saul Noam Zaritt
@saulnoamz
Associate Prof of Yiddish Lit, Harvard / Editorial board member @ingeveb / A Taytsh Manifesto, Fordham 2024: bit.ly/3WOi0jj
Amanda Cordero
@amandace1904
Publicity @yalepress | Marketing + Comms @image_journal | Proud alumna of @EdinburghUni + @Baylor (sic 'em) | probably nomming on lemonheads
Who cares anymore
@returnstosender
Not here. Haven’t tweeted since early Nov 2024 & not planning to. Just squatting on the handle for sentimental reasons: it was good fun before the Nazis came.
🔭Rosebud Ben-Oni 🚀
@rosebudbenoni
Winner of the Alice James Award, IF THIS IS THE AGE WE END DISCOVERY | recent commissioned work @ Paramount, 9/11 Memorial, MJH Living Memorial to the Holocaust
shelby handler
@shelbeleh
writing, organizing, translating | work in/soon @poetrymagazine @iowareview @blackwarriorrev @redividermag @poetrynw
Claudia Reder
@claudia_reder
poet, storyteller, creative expression for all ages; books Blue Light Press; Bright Hill Press; Main Street Rag Ph.D. in storytelling. yetzirahpoets.org
Annie / חנה-בײלע
@annsplaining
PhD student researching interwar anti-fascist Jewish left / women's ritual in Eastern Europe. Yiddish teacher and translator. Kohenet. Live in 🥐, come from 💂
Luke Hankins
@lukehankins2
Writer, Translator, Founder and Editor of @OrisonBooks, Senior Editor at Asheville Poetry Review
Wrath Bearing Tree
@wrathbt
WBT uses art to work toward the enhancement of public perception of social justice & human resilience for all communities affected by trauma and violence.
Yiddish Praxis
@rokhlk
✨Everyday Ashkenazi Magic✨| Rokhl's Golden City column 2x/mo tabletmag.com/tags/rokhls-go… |playwright| neuro🌶️
Josh Lefkowitz
@jelefko

shulman
@shvlman
Not planning to use this account in the foreseeable future but leaving it here for the links Free Palestine
Dr. Mama (aka Julia Kolchinsky)
@jkolchpoetry
Assist. Prof @DenisonU THE MANY NAMES FOR MOTHER @KentStateUPress DON'T TOUCH THE BONES @losthorsepress 40 WEEKS @YesYesBooks PARALLAX @unarkpress Born in 🇺🇦
Chelsea Dingman
@chelsdingman
Author of Thaw (@ugapress 2017 National Poetry Series) Through a Small Ghost (@ugapress 2020) I, Divided (@lsupress 2023) PhD @ualberta Poetry ed @sweetliterary
Dr. Sarah Etlinger
@drsaephd
Writing Professor. Poet. Bibliophile. Dog Lover. Birder. Author of A BRIGHT WOUND (Cornerstone 2024), THE WEATHER GODS (Fernwood 2023), 2 others.
Alex Mezhvinsky
@all_the_ivri
Russian Speaking Jew.I know Jujutsu and some Hebrew. I tell stories sometimes. Charmingly awkward. I have the whole package.
Dr. Han VanderHart is on Bluesky
@hmvanderhart
Poet/Author: Larks (@OhioUnivPress, 2025) & What Pecan Light (BCP, 2021). Editor: @riverriverbooks. Host: @OfPoetryPodcast. Queer. Southern. PhD Duke. they/them
Academic Studies Press
@asp_boston
Academic Studies Press is a scholarly publisher based in Boston, MA that specializes in Jewish and Slavic studies.
Alyssa Quint
@alyssa_quint
Associate editor, @tabletmag; Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater; Yiddish Voices translation series (Bloomsbury)🇺🇦
S🌻re Chiritescu
@schiritescu
Yiddishist. Swiss. Coffee snob. Much migraine. Will translate for $. My dissertation is vegn der tsveyter khvalye fun feminizm. Pedagogy editor @ingeveb. she/זי
Ilya Kaminsky
@ilya_poet
Author of Deaf Republic (@GraywolfPress), Dancing in Odessa (@tupelopress), and Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (@HarperCollins)
Zac Kamenetz🎗️
@zackamenetz
Founder and CEO, Shefa: Jewish Psychedelic Support | spiritual health care professional
Samuel Spinner
@samuelspinner
Assistant Professor @JohnsHopkins. Yiddish and German lit, art. Author of Jewish Primitivism @stanfordpress: sup.org/books/title/?i…
J_Gottlieb-Miller
@joshuag_m
Poet, dad; Dybbuk Americana, weslpress.org/9780819501158/… and "The Art of Bagging," conduit.org/shop/the-art-o…
Gashmius Magazine
@gashmiusmag
Gashmius: Towards a Progressive neo-Hasidism. Publishing essays, divrei Torah, art and poetry in an attempt to make Jewish mysticism radically accessible
Taylor Martin
@taylor_r_martin
Acquisitions Assistant, University of Nebraska Press. All opinions expressed my own. Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/taylor…
an aravah in the manuscript
@chaya_crj
Humanities flâneuse ranting & oversharing a smidge more than in real life UofT PHL+ENG '25 @BaisYaakovProj עולם הבא איז א גוטע זאך; לערנען תורה איז א בעסערע זאך
Miriam Schwartz
@miriamhschwartz
Yiddish studies. PhD student at the Department for Germanic Languages & Literatures at @UofT. Yiddish and Hebrew literature at the fin de siècle.
Maxim D. Shrayer (Максим Д. Шраер)
@maximdshrayer
Writer. Translator of worlds. Refusenik. Translingual 🇺🇸🇮🇱 Kinship; Immigrant Baggage; Witnessing the Shoah; Nabokov; Стихи из айпада. Private account.
shira telushkin
@shira_telushkin
here for religion, fashion, and beautiful things. teach @CunyOf, dream w/ @CatacombSociety. never not talking about physical deification.
Oxford Interfaith Forum 🏅
@faithsoxford
Welcome to the World's Leading Interfaith & Intercultural Education Resource | Winner of the 2024 Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize | HM @KingAbdullahII Award🏅
YAAANA
@yaaanaorg
The Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America builds community through events aimed at preserving Yiddish language, arts, and culture.
ELJ Editions
@emergejournal
501(c)(3) nonprofit literary press. Home of Emerge Literary Journal (emergeliteraryjournal.com). DM us anything.
CongressForJewishCulture
@kultur_kongres
Alveltlekher yidisher kultur kongres, est. 1948. At the intersection of highbrow and low culture, יידיש–ענגליש
Sonia Gollance, PhD
@sgollance
Associate Professor in Yiddish Studies @uclhjs. Author, It Could Lead to Dancing @Stanfordpress 2021. Find me @sgollance.bsky.social.
Terrapin Books
@terrapinbooks
Terrapin Books is a small press for poetry books. We have two open submission periods each year: February and August. Founded in 2015 by Diane Lockward.
Abi Pollokoff
@abipollokoff
debut: night myths • • before the body (@RedHenPress 2025). prod editor @girlfridayprod. managing editor (editions) @poetrynw. new work in @triquarterly
Kate Beall
@katebbeall
Writer, baker, candlestick maker (?), / All of me out to the sea. | Same name on Blooski | she/her linktr.ee/kate_writes