Samuel Spinner

Associate Professor @JohnsHopkins. Yiddish and German lit, art. Author of Jewish Primitivism @stanfordpress:

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I'm honored & SO happy to share that my book Jewish Primitivism has won MLA's book prize for Germanic languages! It's extra special for me that a book about Jewish lit - in large part about Yiddish - has won this distinction. It means so much. My thanks to the prize committee!

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Everyone: Passover Haggadah

1785 Haggadah from Berlin:
"Lecture (Vortrag) on the first two evenings of Passover"

(The language is German in Hebrew script not [really] Yiddish)
https://t.co/2ctNgvXtNW

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“Mountain Jews: a Novel,” by Rakhmil Grin, Warsaw 1938. This little-known writer was murdered in the Holocaust, likely in the Lvov ghetto.
His entire immediate family was also murdered possibly excepting his twin children who were hidden.

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Generative OY.

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Happy holidays.

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“Hey Siri, play Yiddish Chanukah carols.”
And then—a great miracle happened, thanks to @YDesser.

If you love Yiddish and you love Christmas music (who doesn’t?) you have to listen to this album.

https://t.co/8U5osUh7qd

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@lizdelagarzag @pastramimachine Why not make the latkes and the brisket out of green beans too?
And green bean Chanukah candles!

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After 140 years, @MLNJournal will have a regular issue devoted to Yiddish, Hebrew, and other Jewish languages. I don’t know about you, but I’m excited!
Please help us get the word out and please send me your work.

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@Ahemhem @JHUArtsSciences Send me an email, happy to discuss.

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Want to get a PhD in Yiddish or Hebrew? Or Yiddish AND Hebrew? We are accepting applications for the PhD in Jewish Languages & Literatures! Please help me get the word out! @JHUArtsSciences

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@DBashIdeas שעמען איז קיין בושה נישט!

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@Mottel My new crock pot has a white insert. I’m not sure that’s kosher, forget vegan milk in the chulent.

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@Herstorically @JHUArtsSciences No, in person only.

[Herripedia @herripedia]

Someone, somewhere, must have an article on Yiddish & herring. The world needs you to write it now!

[Samuel Spinner @SamuelSpinner]

After 140 years, @MLNJournal will have a regular issue devoted to Yiddish, Hebrew, and other Jewish languages. I don’t know about you, but I’m excited!
Please help us get the word out and please send me your work.

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If you’re in the area and like cool books… featuring Dr. Mack Zalin of @jhulibraries.bsky.social and yours truly.

https://t.co/AwiHo0JMdv

[Piotr Nazaruk @NazarukPi]

Day 2 of our expedition to the Jewish Community of Warsaw. 1 additional book from Chachmei Lublin, hundreds of books saved. Now process of fumigation ahead of us.

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Day 1 of our expedition to the Jewish Community of Warsaw. Among thousands of heavily damaged books discovered in their basement we identified 2 from Chachmei Lublin, books from various Jewish Communities of Poland and fragments of Torah shafts.

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@a_a_viswanath Slander. Everyone knows how to pronounce it. It’s like Kodak. How do you even pronounce it wrong?

[Paliparan @PaliparanDotCom]

The main reason I came to Wolsztyn is that it has one of the last scheduled passenger train services in Europe still operated by a steam locomotive. This is not a tourist train or heritage line, it's a regional service just like the one earlier today, with the same fares!