i cant stop thinking about this. i literally threw my kindle down when i read the word "abba" followed by "ima." modern hebrew jumpscare

Oh I just started a novel about Jews in 1905 Odessa and one of the characters started calling her parents abba and ima. Hey hello what is this

thanks this made me sick to my stomach thedreydossier.substack.com/p/what-we-ca...

the jokes write themselves

yayyy progressive candidate won my district hooray!!! www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

אַ סאָציאַליסטישער הַלֵּל | A Yiddish Socialist adaptation of Hallel (1894/1919) opensiddur.org?p=55145

one of my absolute favorite books!!! well deserved

אין אַ הייסער טאָג, איך װונטש פֿאַר אוגערקעס. איך װאָלט געװאָלט אַ פֿעפֿעריש און קאַלט אונגערקע סאַלאַט!

איך האָב געלערנען אַן אַלעף־בת קלאַס! ס'יז געװען זייער גוט, צוזאַמען מיר האָבען געלייענען קורץ װערטערס און לידער. אָבער, אַ קינד איז געװען אין קלאַס און איך בין נישט אַזױ גוט מיט קינדער—כאָטש, דאָס קינד האָט געלייענען מיט אונדז!

so refreshing to see this topic discussed without the air of conspiracy that is so common. really good stuff www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgVe...

slowly learning mayne grine kusine on electric guitar :)

ooo you guys wanna take this class with me so bad newlehrhaus.org/program/yidd...

marx could not have fathomed the plight of the 21st century american 1099 worker

איך װיל אן אַנדערע קאַץ...איך מיין, באַלד!!

Ok register for this class bc rn its enrollment is too low and I rlyyyy wanna take the class 🙏

typical actor take: that actors are the only ones actually making art and technicians are just an obstacle

(scrolling Bluesky) I reject the premise. I reject the premise. Granted. I reject the premise. Not my fetish. Granted. I reject the premise. Funny. I reject the premise.

had the striking realization yesterday, after having the novel experience of someone staring at me obviously trying to figure out what language i was speaking, that if i speak a european language in public then people might think i'm......european 😐

ahhhh omg newlehrhaus.org/program/yidd...

does anyone know if the אי used in this sentence is actually pronounced "ee"?

הײַנט, איך בין געגאַנגען אין דער מוטער מוזיי מיט עפּעס יידישיסטס און איך האָב הנאה 🥰 אָבער, דאָס מוזיי איז געװען אַ ביסל נודניק און זייער בוּיאַנסקע כאַכאַ

איך האָב געפֿינען אַ קרום װאָס האָט אַראַביש עסן לעבן מײַנע הױז!!! איך האָב ליב "פֿול מעדאַמעס," אָבער די באָבעניצעס זײַנען שװער צו געפֿינען. אַ נס, זיי האָבען די באָבעניצעס!!

just registered for yiddishland!!! so excited

i love reading yiddish writers from 120 years ago write about the shitty discourses surrounding yiddish in their time too...

reading hebrew as a yiddish speaker is what reading simlish is to being an english speaker

this font is wild

i mentioned to my dr this morning in conversation that i study jewish history and he put it in my chart??? LMAO

Lrt people well and truly believe that the Holocaust was committed in order to teach Jews a lesson (see: "they didn't learn anything!" irt the Zionist genocide of Palestinians) and it feeds into the victim/perpetrator framing that shapes said opinion.

There’s a real desire among a certain kind of people to distinguish clearly between morally good people (in this case, Eastern European Holocaust victims) and bad people (Western Zionists). This binary doesn’t work and people are a lot more complicated than that.

have synagogues considered not having real estate sales of stolen land on the premises? this whole problem is entirely made up, no one is harassing you for going to your place of worship lmao forward.com/news/823165/...

New Yiddish Culture gathering: Philly In Eynem!! May 17th! 5PM-8+ Feat. me, @joshuaraclaw.com, a whole bunch of other people who are great and aren't on bsky! it's going to be heymish, fun, locally-led, all the good things!! Register here: forms.gle/HyWzGRarwR1S...

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i've come to the conclusion that i have to devise my own yiddish play because the ones i find from the canon are either about men or, if there are women in them, are about marriage. and i just don't give a fuck about that as a theme

Similarly, I find something markedly heteronormative in the suspicion of multi-generation language transmission outside of family reproduction

seidman continues to stay extremely relevant

bad-faith criticisms of yiddishists ring as misogyny to me. something abt the portrayal of yiddishists as shrill, annoying fakers doing things for the "aesthetic" outside of traditional institutional channels, rather than the masculinized hard-hitting facts of academic research in english or hebrew

this strawman of yiddishists is so strange to me. do you know how hard it is to learn a language?? imo learning a language for political reasons is valid and partially why i do it, but everyone i know (including myself) has a genuine interest in yiddish literature, theatre, and culture too

one of their other locations union busted so hard the location closed. but ya socially responsible

פֿילי בייגלס זײַנען נישט אַזוי גוט...

Members of the Jewish Labour Bund march in a May Day parade in Bialystok, Poland, May 1, 1934. Happy May Day, everyone.

listening to a proste yiddish episode and learning about brazilian jewry with my head over a steaming bowl bc apparently good people are allowed to suffer (read: get colds)

ahh market lover. a beautiful name for a baby boy

i read A Very Long Thread with screenshots from crabapple's new book and to me it's ringing as if it's trying to be a naomi klein book but it doesn't really work, because it's meant to be a book about history. hmmmm

Thinking a lot about the surge of interest in the Bund with the publishing of Crabapple’s book. This is great! The Bund was a huge part of Jewish life in Russia and Poland and remains a vibrant source in some corners today! (1)

Man. People just hate the fact that American Jews are reconnecting with our heritage so much. What is people's problem with the fact that people want to learn their heritage language??

Good thing I have a secular community of yiddishists who do correct my pronunciation and grammar :)

found on r/philly. SPEAK

kinda crazy that the majority of the anti-semitism i see online is reposted by other jews

מײַנע נײַע בשׂמים־ביקסל!

מײַנע נײַע בשׂמים־ביקסל!