Wendy Love Anderson

Humanities geek, historian of medieval religion & childhood, alternatively academic administrator, and Jewish ritual nerd. My personal account. She/her/hers.

[Wendy Love Anderson @humgeek]

@AvBronstein OMG the polishing. *winces* I am clearly not the target market here, am I?

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@rmneiss Someday I want to teach a Jewish history course in which we read all of these & figure out which historical figures go with which endings. I feel competent in _The Tenth of Av_ and _The Cardinal's Snuffbox_, but not _Until the Messiah Comes_.

[Wendy Love Anderson @humgeek]

An important (and informative) thread for all of us who love sharing wacky manuscript illuminations:

[Wendy Love Anderson @humgeek]

I love the idea of a Mishnah-song playlist, even though I can't add much to it. (The Incubus song "If Not Now, When?" may or may not qualify as a "Mishnah song," and I don't think it has any lyrics I'd be upset to hear at a bat mitzvah siyum, but it's not particularly frum.)

[Elli Fischer @Adderabbi]

Asking #frumtwitter for assistance.
My daughter is making a Siyum Mishnayos for her bat mitzvah in 2 months. The DJ asked for "Mishnah songs" she can play. I started making a playlist of songs that are (at least in part) from Mishnayos. Gimme more. @mishnahyomit @ReuvenSpolter

[Wendy Love Anderson @humgeek]

So is this an example of the European Enlightenment, "high-level trolling" *of* the European Enlightenment, or both? I am used to the sorts of texts where passages from Toledot Yeshu shows up in the middle of Christian polemics against Jews, but in Latin; this is... different.

[Michelle Margolis @hchesner]

That was re: this ms (Goethe University, Frankfurt,
Frank UB Oct. 155 (1771) ), which was both Toledot Yeshu and Raphael Levy of Metz.

[Wendy Love Anderson @humgeek]

@drewjakeprof Yep. I switched only a few days ago, as my last commitment went virtual, and I am sad about not going to San Antonio, a city I really like, and about not seeing friends and colleagues in person. I am not sad about doing the Where Can I Safely Eat math 3x/day.

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I love quilts, but the side of my family that was in the Southern U.S. in 1885 is not the Jewish side, so the existence of amazing Southern Jewish quilts makes me very happy.

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@ShammaBoyarin B'dieved, absolutely mutar. L'chatchila, it gives me a bad feeling. But this is why we have the household Costume Bin, because borrowing some elements from *last* year's Halloween costume for a quick shalach manos delivery is totally kosher.

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@Lollardfish I cannot be the only person who expected a lovely meditation on, I dunno, gardening in a monastery or something, and then read the subtitle. Yiiiiiiiiiiiikes.

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...but How Children's Studies Helps To Rethink Parenting is not what I promised to teach my students *today*, so I'll just mention that if anyone has reading recs at the intersection of childhood studies & parenting guidance, I'd love to see them.

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This morning I took my kid to a new doctor. To get emailed a school-attendance note, I had to set up a third new account with my name/email/password (questionnaires, charting, & now secure mail), only to discover that the office admin's cover message addresses me as... "Mom."

[Wendy Love Anderson @humgeek]

The more I read & teach children's/childhood studies, the more important it becomes to me to establish that parents and kids are *all* distinct people. We are entitled to set boundaries, to choose our forms of address, to participate in & change society.

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At last, the first student assignment I have graded that uses the phrase "during the 2010s" to make an historical argument (albeit in the conclusion of the paper). Can I identify as a crone now? I've always wanted to identify as a crone.

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Also, have any of the AG Girls of the Year dolls been non-Christian? (To say nothing of the "historical" dolls from the 1970s and 1980s. Of course I know about Rebecca. Of course my family owns one.)

[Wendy Love Anderson @humgeek]

This will be a nice closer in my Intro to Children's Studies final-class lecture about how all the Winter-Adjacent Holidays are becoming more child-centered (a great pedagogical excuse to hand out gelt). But the Hanukkah outfit is not at *all* my style.

https://t.co/1oGzF2cj1f

[Wendy Love Anderson @humgeek]

@ibogost But does that beige (beige?!) exist as a universal, abstract form? Plato and I are having trouble conceptualizing it, probably because it doesn't look beige.

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On the one hand, this is adorable and makes me yearn for a thick Jewish culture that my StL grocery stores only achieve in the seasonal Passover aisle. On the other hand, do I need my morning omelet reminding me that I am still 10 dapim behind because holidays? (Yes, probably.)

[Sam Sokol @SamuelSokol]

This is the second time I've seen this on Twitter. I have to go to the store and see if this is for real

[Wendy Love Anderson @humgeek]

@vanderpoelensis I mean, what else is the Humanities Core *for*? (Or perhaps you are teaching something else, but in any event your student is correct.)