This winter take a break with Sholem Aleichem and me! Take my course on the Tevye stories at Roundtable with the 92nd street Y. roundtable.org/live-courses... Or, as Tevye puts it, “And now let’s talk about something more cheerful. Tell me, what’s the news about the cholera in Odessa?”

Come work with us! In geveb is seeking a new member of our editorial staff for the 2025-2026 publishing year. To apply: please submit a cover letter and resume by August 19, 2025 to [email protected]. Subject line: “managing editor”. Details here: ingeveb.org/blog/in-geve...

A brilliant review of On Revival is published in In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. Thank you @saulnoamz.bsky.social and @ingeveb.bsky.social @pennpress.bsky.social ingeveb.org/articles/yid...

In which I think again about Hebrew and Yiddish, about the living-dead, about the violence of sovereignty and nationalism, and what it might mean to "walk on the wild side," if only that were possible–all through Roni Henig's fantastic book. ingeveb.org/articles/yid...

I definitely forgot to promote this... but if you're in Chicago and want to hear about Lipton Tea and Yehoyash's bible translation then you should probably come to my talk at 4pm today. complit.uchicago.edu/saul-zaritt-...

I'm teaching an online class this July, all about the short story and Jewish American writing—a return to some parts of my first book and plenty of fun with Delmore Schwartz, Grace Paley, and Saul Bellow. (I promise you that Delmore and Grace will win out the day.) Registration link below...

I am humbled to be among this year's Berlin Prize fellows, joining a wide-ranging group of scholars, writers, and artists (including the yidishist in hiding, Ross Perlin). The move to Ohio will be delayed to spend the fall on the shores of the Wannsee reading Yiddish trash...

The taytsh campaign continues! I'll be giving a zoom talk on Wednesday about the book through the Southern California Workers Circle (Arbeter ring). Registration link below...

In the midst of all the terror and looming precarity, something to look forward to, professionally and personally: come July 1 I'll be an assistant professor of Yiddish and Ashkenazic Culture at The Ohio State University.

It's been 2 weeks since #Farbindungen25 Bad Yiddish, and we're still thinking about all of the amazing panels and talks! You can now watch the incredible keynote address, by @saulnoamz.bsky.social and Natan M. Meir, available on our YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvhT...

Call for Submissions: Yiddish Science Fiction!! We invite submissions to a special issue of In geveb on “Yiddish Science Fiction" with guest editors Alona Bach, Sebastian Schulman, and Dalia Wolfson. Submissions are due April 28. See the link for further details. https://buff.ly/416QaB1

What other social and technological futures have we imagined, feared, hoped for—af yidish? Help us imagine, remember, and consider alternative possibilities by submitting to @ingeveb.bsky.social 's special issue on #Yiddish #scifi. Full CFP: ingeveb.org/blog/call-fo...

Introducing! מיר שטעלן פֿאָר! The keynote panel of #Farbindungen25 Bad Yiddish will feature Saul Noam Zaritt and Natan M. Meir, moderated by Jacqueline Krass. Register today, link in bio!

Made a Yiddishist starter pack...let me know if I should add anyone :) go.bsky.app/B3QwrtA

"We must not close ranks and presume to heal a private family affair. I submit that we must seek out difference, not mourn it as something to be rendered dead and buried. Taytsh instructs us to sit with the ghosts, who are not and cannot be satisfied,... " [1/2]

We're pleased to present A Taytsh Forum! We at In geveb have invited a group of Yiddish Studies scholars to offer responses to Saul Noam Zaritt's A Taytsh Manifesto. These responses, as varied and complex as A Taytsh Manifesto itself, are followed by a reply from Zaritt. https://buff.ly/4h8XfaL

What a privilege to be read so thoroughly and so generously, with critique and shared responsibility—for the field and for much else beyond the field. A taytsh forum! ingeveb.org/issues/forum...

Marina Mayorski reviews Ayelet Brinn's A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press: "A Revolution in Type offers a timely and forceful contribution to the study of Jewish history, culture, and gender." https://buff.ly/3DiHj76

Got my copy of @ronihenig.bsky.social ‘s book and you should too. Stay tuned for a spring event for our books together…

Yiddish digital humanities and taytsh, a discussion by Jonah Lubin: "If the Oytser is a forerunner to Yiddish DH, with all its obsessive prescriptivism, then how might we imagine taytsh DH? What does it mean to taytsh label, without lehavdils?" articulations.temporal-communities.de/contribution...

People often ask me what's going on at Harvard. Here's one report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...

Just three more days to send in your proposals for #Farbindungen25 "Bad Yiddish / בעד ייִדיש"! More info & submit: www.farbindungen.com/2025 📷: Di varhayt (29 June 1915), p. 3.

Hello new followers—I’m a scholar of Yiddish studies and I’ve written two books, one about Jewish American writers and their dealings with the concept of world literature and the other, just out in October, about Yiddish and translation. It’s a manifesto!

A pair of keynote speakers on Bad #Yiddish who are (unthematically) excellent! From shtetl to shund, looking forward to hearing about how and why Yiddish writers, speakers, and genres get coded as "bad." (Proposals for #Farbindungen25 will be open until November 15th: www.farbindungen.com/2025)

I’m honored to be one of the keynote speakers, alongside Natan Meir, for the Farbindungen conference @farbindungen.bsky.social Tune in for plenty of talk about shund (trash) and all the bad Yiddish you can take!

Here is an excerpt from my taytsh manifesto, which of course has 10 points, in Yiddish and in English. Here is #8, with something to say about our present moment...

Sorry I have been gone from here for so long—in the meanwhile the book became real and arrived in the world! Tatysh for one and all! www.fordhampress.com/978153150917...

Book proofs!

It's coming up on the end of the semester when I share with my students all the new things going on in the Yiddish world—what are your favorite projects? Don't be afraid to self-promote. [and a bit of shund for your enjoyment along the way: "Her Men," a novel by none other than Miriam Karpilove]

When I say that I sometimes just ask @eddyportnoy.bsky.social about random things in the Yiddish press, this is why: the shnorer's club, its mysterious library, and its lavish balls... ingeveb.org/blog/shnorer

"Dancing: Are you serious? Until 6am." @eddyportnoy.bsky.social reports on The Shnorer Association, also sometimes known as The Shnorer Club, a Yiddish arts organization which sponsored a variety of cultural events - some rather raucous - from 1915 through around 1925.

“Rather than depending on Eddy’s memory or borrowing another scholar’s hastily scribbled index cards (or perhaps in addition to these time-honored traditions), we can let technology do more of the heavy lifting.” @zanykirz.bsky.social interviews me for @ingeveb.bsky.social link below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

As @saulnoamz.bsky.social explains, "Shund is less interested in longevity, prestige, or in some way producing a “Jewish” novel—it just wants to entertain, and this is part of its power."

“Rather than depending on Eddy’s memory or borrowing another scholar’s hastily scribbled index cards (or perhaps in addition to these time-honored traditions), we can let technology do more of the heavy lifting.” @zanykirz.bsky.social interviews me for @ingeveb.bsky.social link below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

I hear that the internet loves cats. Here you go. (source: www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/...)

I don't know what kinds of sacrifices to which gods made this happen, but my department (comp lit) is conducting two junior searches this year. The first in media history and theory, which I shared a while ago. This next one is in translation studies. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12725

"The boy, in his appearance, is not very interesting... The father is also not very interesting... But his mother is a remarkable woman, her name is Sonia, and she is a Russian-Jewish intellectual.” What can shund.org tell us about Yiddish mothers? Link in comments...

I see that Yiddish “revival” and “survival” is back in the discourse (and in the pages of the gray lady), which forces me again to post this now dated description of zombie Yiddish: ingeveb.org/blog/loshn-o...

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

Hi Bluesky, another exciting t-t opening here: pls help us publicize before the 11/1 deadline. As @saulnoamz.bsky.social has mentioned, Comp Lit is looking for a scholar of media history/theory/archaeology who works on non-anglophone cultural traditions: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12720

Announcing a search for a tenure track appointment in Harvard's Comp Lit department, with specialization in the broadly defined domain of media history, theory, and archeology. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12720

Friends, may I ask you pls to help me publicize a t-t job at my institution? Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard is seeking a scholar of French/Francophone lit who specializes in a period before the 19th century. Applications due 9/22. Thank you! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12490

Also, I just handed in my tenure dossier. Now I just wait nine months. That probably won't be stressful at all.

With Shund.org, the just-launched database of Yiddish popular fiction, approaching 10k works—and growing—it can be daunting to think about how to analyze all that data. It's even hard to come up with a good research question. Sometimes what helps is a stroll through the data. Yes, in virtual reality

Ah, it's nice to be under the blue sky... And it comes with some shund, some popular Yiddish literature—a story from Z. Shneyor about thieves "as if fallen from the sky" and a series of jokes about "heaven and earth and Jews," including a quip about President Coolidge being a yid named Kalmen...