Hello, just a note to say that I'm alive, just not really using social media much these days. I'm 24 weeks pregnant with twins and it's been kind of a difficult pregnancy so just been trying to relax and avoid stress. Hope you're all doing well!

East Side grandmothers buying candles for Yom Kippur Published in Forverts on September 23, 1928 www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper...

Holiday shopping in Warsaw, Poland Published in Forverts on September 23, 1928 www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper...

Women workers published in Forverts on November 25, 1928, including farmers in Japan and Jerusalem, taxi drivers in Philadelphia, a coal digger in England, concrete worker, steam shovel operator, auto mechanic, blacksmith, and worker at a bag and barrel plant in Boston www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper...

Two Jewish working women, Mary Jacobson and Florence Guttenberg hitchhiked from New York to Los Angeles and back Published in Forverts on November 25, 1928

Arbeter froyen, laydnde froyen… 🎶 yiddishsongs.org/arbeter-froy...

Women workers published in Forverts on September 13, 1936, including construction workers, a linewoman, an icewoman, a coal miner, longshorewomen, a horse shoer, an electric welder, a blacksmith, and a sign painter www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper...

Hello Jews of Bluesky. If you would like to be included in the new JewSky Plus feed repost this! And if you ever want to be removed from it, undo the repost! https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:24atmhsxslaeuvf2gcmv7fh3/feed/jewsky-plus

Looking for a Customer - His trade is to intone 'El Moleh Rachmim' (prayer for the dead) for relatives who come visiting the graves of their near ones in Warsaw (on the days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur) Published in Forverts on September 23, 1923 www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper...

Aaron Goodelman illustration of Days of Awe Published in Leyenbikher far der Idisher Shul by Israel Steinbaum (NY, 1924) www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/...

The burlesque theater will be open all day today (Monday, January 21, 1918), but will be closed tomorrow by order of the fuel administration. Published in Forverts on January 21, 1918 www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper...

Yiddish advertisement for a burlesque show Published in Forverts on February 9, 1918 www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper...

Advertisements for Gayety, The Home of Burlesque, a theatre to take your sister, mother, or sweetheart to Published in Forverts September, 1917 www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper...

Tashlikh in New York Published in Forverts on September 12, 1937 www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper...

Tashlikh in New York Published in Forverts on September 20, 1936 www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper...

Rosh Hashanah at the Hebrew Home for the Aged in Los Angeles in 1933 Published in Forverts on September 9, 1934 www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper...

Tashlikh on the Williamsburg Bridge Published in Forverts on October 9, 1929 www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper...

Ethiopian Jews in New York celebrating Rosh Hashanah in 1937 Published in Forverts on September 11, 1937 www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper...

Freaky Friki Friday

Has anyone been able to post images today in the last few hours?

Yiddish Vinkel makes such beautiful Ukrainian Yiddish swag (including the wrapping). Check out her online store and send some sweetness to the Yiddishists in your life. @ingeveb.bsky.social linktr.ee/yiddishvinkl

Stargazers predicted that Rabbi Akiva's daughter would be bitten by a snake on her wedding day. The sage faced a cruel question: What to do? The Talmud tells of his choice, and how his daughter ultimately saved herself, unlike a certain Sleeping Beauty… blog.nli.org.il/en/charity/

Rosh Hashanah in New York Left: sounding the shofar in an East Side synagogue Right: tashlikh on the Williamsburg Bridge Photographed in September, 1930 Published in Forverts September 13, 1931 www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper...

In honor of the New Year: A baker's apprentice in Kalisz, Poland making challot 'with birds' (a round, twisted holiday bread) which he says are to ensure a 'birdlike year' (a year without misfortune) Photographed September, 1930 Published in Forverts September 20, 1931 www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper...

they were excellent comics

50 years ago a group of teenagers published Friki, a comic satirizing Israeli nationalism during the Yom Kippur War. They were arrested on charges of agitation, revolution, and aiding Syrian intelligence services and convicted but were acquitted on appeal www.flickr.com/photos/hagil...

Dylan guitar background cc @shvlman.bsky.social

Illustration by Walter Edgar for a Dybbuk performance starring Miriam Goldin and Nahum Zemach, 1920s www.flickr.com/photos/magne...

Shabtai Zisl Zimmerman

I drew this photo of Bob Dylan (Shabtai Zisl Zimmerman) as a Rosh Hashanah greeting

Amulet made for Rosh Hashanah in Kurdistan (present day Iran) in about 1920 cja.huji.ac.il/browser.php?...

A Judaica repair shop in Lodz, Poland photos.yadvashem.org/photo-detail...

Tashlikh in Janova, Lithuania, Rosh Hashanah 1936 photos.yadvashem.org/photo-detail...

Three Jewish women in a graveyard on Rosh Hashanah yivo1000towns.cjh.org/picture.asp?...

Polish Jew carrying a pot of cholent to be cooked for shabbat in the 1930s collections.ushmm.org/search/catal...

“Amazing 4 page testimonial given in 1939 about the dybbuk that plagued Bunker Street in Chicago in 1902” from @shvlman.bsky.social www.loc.gov/resource/wpa...

Here you can read a 4 page testimonial given in 1939 about the suspected dybbuk that plagued Bunker St. in Chicago in 1902. His father passed away suddenly which was thought to be because of the dybbuk. Or typhoid www.loc.gov/resource/wpa...

Shofar decorated with silver, made in Casablanca, Morocco in about 1920 cja.huji.ac.il/browser.php?...

Rosh Hashanah card made in Germany in the late 19th or early 20th century museums.cjh.org/web/pages/cj...

New book! Meyer Levin’s Classic Hasidic Tales. Totally @shvlman.bsky.social ’s fault. Fortunately, the illustrations on page 229 “the circumcision” is just the mohel holding the baby. I was scared.

Yiddish edition of The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde, published by the People's Library in Warsaw in 1911 Illustration by Lev Brodaty expositions.nlr.ru/ex_olcaa/ser...

I'm having a studio-cleaning art sale to make space and a few bucks. First up, I've got two of these gorgeous screen prints of my Thalia Zedek Band/Live Skull tour poster design, linework only. DM for price and dimensions.

Zuni Maud illustration of Der Dybbuk published in Literarische Bleter No. 50, December 13, 1929 cbj.jhi.pl/documents/24...

"And I’ll tell you what, Mister Cutler: The philosopher who sought out truth in the daylight with a lantern was also a real chump." - My Philosophical Laundryman, from Muntergang, by Yosel Cutler. Trans. @mordecaipmartin.bsky.social Yosel Cutler's laundryman comes for Diogenes

All the Busytown police do is create chaos

I read some of this over shabes

1916 poster for Der Toyfels Makht (The Devil's Power) at the Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia The devil is holding a bottle of rye whiskey https://digipres.cjh.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE2395652&change_lng=

happy new year of the animals!!