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!
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
“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.
“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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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!