If you prefer transliteration: a shtikl arayngeskwusht make that araynge-"squoosh"-t

“bought and paid for, shekel style” is a melodramatic and meaningless phrase, coined by an otherwise boring borderline-antisemitic UK account

I was hoping for something more like “deadnamieren”

I just saw "deadnamen" as a German verb

If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....

This has all the Tells If you have any friends who sound like this (no I'm not sub-posting anyone, sorry if that phrasing has come to suggest that), don't

Oh yeah it's a Nazi

It talks like a Nazi, it should live and prosper as ought a Nazi

If it thinks like a Nazi and talks like a Nazi

Classical Arabic is great because you look up some noun like "tomato" and it's like "here is a verb meaning to be or become red and squishy, to be or become ketchupable, to be or become ambiguously fruit and vegetable"

This is very worth reading IMO

So when I got 👈 me back, I (👈 +☝️) decided that this should be my "professional" account

Ever feel like you *almost* understand something? I feel like I almost understood this 👇, and wish I would, eventually Still very interesting!

Designing indexes of missing birth fractions and missing record fractions, wondering if I could find a way to measure their correlation and (the dream) to use that to attach approximate figures to the gaps, so we can make sense of the shadowy reentries into the record of those who slipped out

Just the last month in that batch (Feber 806) - 36 m/10 f. That's a P-value of 0.00019, and when we assume the proportion of male births at the more reasonable 0.512, that's a P-value of 0.00015. In short these are *so* phony.

... the binomial calculators online refuse to give me a P-value. Just rounded down to *0*.

I just tried to recreate my original argument very roughly but with a binomial distribution calculator. First 4 months of data that have the M/F tally done for me (I know there are errors, but it should matter), 120 male vs 54 female births. Assuming the highest male proportion plausible - 0.517..

My key idea is that the absurd skew is almost entirely due to the Shabbat gap, which also affects male births and deaths of all genders - but only for girls' births does that erase so many

And as a side point - girls who ought to have been born in Lviv but are missing in the register do reappear in great numbers (eyeballing) in the Family Evidence books beginning in the 1820s - one of my ancestors' older sisters are among these

30 days is a Western Ashkenazic custom, records from immediately after this era show that girls in this part of Galicia were named exactly as they are in most Hasidic communities now - the Shabbat after (with the next Torah reading, even if a weekday, as a minor alternative)

This is my best work IMO (content, at least, not form, sorry) and I would love to improve on it, working from the same material

The first version is gone, the last version is paywalled, but the middle one is here:

I've written less rigorous versions, first as a Twitter thread (z"l), then as a blog post, then published in @geshergalicia.org's journal, but a mathematically precise analysis could reveal so much more, I think

One day, I will rewrite the story of the missing girls of Lemberg *with mathematical rigour*, I'm more driven towards this goal than many more important things in life

It's always genealogy, and it's always Lviv

I am rather obsessed with sex ratios at birth for totally non-eugenecist reasons, thank you

Also on PubMed: one paper on the topic categorized under: Coitus / Physiology Emotions / Physiology very romantic

Well, I'd've changed my name too

Love to be looking up a chain of papers (trying to understand how variance in sex ratios at birth are measured and quantified) and go back to the era of citations from "Eugenics Quarterly"

OK, 3-minute Destroying Angel mode over. You may exit your bunkers now.

I'm always saying this @claudiaw71.bsky.social

TIL that Swedish ‘tung’ (‘heavy’), source of the ‘tung-’ in ‘tungsten’ is cognate with the root of Polish ciężki (‘heavy’) Very neat parallel to English tongue being cognate to Polish język.

Yossel Gutfarb is becoming Nazi propaganda material, what a blast from the past

Found another account spreading that video of Yossel Gutfarb trolling Hilonim bsky.app/profile/auto...

“Such was the fame of this Bohemian recluse (who died in 1053) that he was joined by other hermits. See how the eremitic life, done well, is self-defeating, in that the exemplary hermit soon attracts company.” Lol

Behold our glorious cover art! "Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives across Cold War Borders" Eds. @rkpejsova.bsky.social & @labendz.bsky.social (Purdue '26). Moshe Peter Shamah created this original artwork. The volume derived from two symposia, the last held at @chgs-ramapo.bsky.social.

Je trouve admirable qu'on ait des mots d'ancien français transcrits en alphabet arménien à l'époque de la Croisade (de La Chaussée, 1982)

Guy who is studying Polish: this sounds a lot like Polish!

If you want to see a flock of sheep become ravenous wolves, see what happens when someone tells a "grandma changed her name at Ellis Island" story on any social media platform having genealogists bwahahahaha

It's okay, in honour of this glorious day I'll grant amnesty

As an old account once said

Hey, they don’t call her Winall.

If you don't get the reference

Sorry, it's compulsive

You know what *wasn't* written at Ellis Island? #genealogy

This is what happens when you give up on שנים מקרא somewhere in ויקרא when it's the end of the summer and can't remember what parsha you were up to

Upset at myself that I needed Gesenius to be reminded of הֶעֱלִיתֻנוּ

Drat. Azavtuni was what I felt I should write, but I couldn't remember if that particular stack of suffixes is attested. It is.

hey everybody I’m a leading expert in the history of lost cryptographic techniques a paleontologist specializing in lifeforms that leave no fossils