Introducing our keynote speakers for Farbindungen 2026: Yiddish at Work, taking place Feb 15th-16th, virtually. We're beyond excited and honored to have Caroline Luce and Miriam Udel headlining our program this year. Call for papers and submission form can be found at bit.ly/Farbindungen26Submission

What do the “Father of the Bund” & a Yiddish electrical engineering textbook have in common? Find out: blog.cjh.org/index.php/20... A groysn dank to YIVO archivist Jess Podhorcer & the CJH for the chance to write about the Vilna Technicum and the making of Yiddish-speaking engineers.

NEW Pedagogy piece: Scientific Literature in the Yiddish Classroom If you use this material in your classroom--let us know! 🦚 ingeveb.org/pedagogy/sci...

And...we're off! @contrastsmag.bsky.social is a new digital magazine focused on the intersections of science, technology, & society ( #STS, #HistSTM ). Our first issue on "portals" considers passageways between worlds—from apprenticeships to AI, maps to migration. Read the issue: contrastsmag.net

"Incomplete mourning, being unable to fully talk about what was lost, means that you’re perpetually haunted." — @rokhl.bsky.social on ghosts, IRB forms, Purim shpiels, perfume, and her new play Shtumer Shabes.

Raboysay (/robotsay 🤖)! One more week to send us your Yiddish sci-fi submissions. We're especially keen for pitches for the blog and pedagogy sections — on incorporating Yiddish sci-fi into the classroom, interviews, reviews, blog-length thoughts on techno-messianism or dys/utopia, and more!

#PosenLibrary is introducing a new initiative - Posen Library Digital Curriculum Development Fellowship, to help create educational materials for Posen Library digital platform. For more info: www.posenlibrary.com/fellowship #DHJewish #JewishEducation #CurriculumDevelopment

Send us your airships, your dystopias, your wired masses yearning to breathe free—af yidish! Submissions for our @ingeveb.bsky.social special issue on Yiddish sci-fi are due Mon, 28 April.

A Yiddish prank of yore: "Take 2 tsp of cold milk, mix w/ 2 tsp of cold water, squeeze in 4 drops of lemon juice & mix well. Dip a clean handkerchief in the fluid & lightly dampen empty area. Hold it against the sun & you'll see a cartoon." —Der groyser kundes (March 31, 1911), p. 11.

CFP for ContraSTS / Issue: "Portals" / due March 1 ContraSTS is an online magazine run by MIT graduate students, featuring public-facing #STS and #histSTM works at the intersections of science, technology, and society. More info & pitch: contrastsmagazine.github.io

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...

Margaret Partridge bit.ly/3anO3yg & Margaret Rowbotham en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare... Partners in life & #engineering 1962 wrote joint letter of grandmotherly advice on joys of retirement: designing sports pavilion, converting stately home in2 boys school. Buried together #LGBTHM24 #ValentinesDay

מוראדיק הײַנטצײַטיק מיטן טראָפּ אויף מוראדיק

This sounds like a wonderful project — Haslett's correspondence is fascinating, lively, and a crucial part of UK engineering/electric history (with the WES, EAW, and beyond!). #histSTM

It was such an amazing time organizing @farbindungen.bsky.social 2026 with these incredible people!

#Farbindungen25 panel 1 — underworlds, shund, and disappointments.

Really looking forward to this #Farbindungen25 panel on Yiddish theater, featuring Rebecca Turner on Jane Rose's NIT MIT ALEMEN (a favorite play!), @bluma.bsky.social on Leivick (!!), and Yael Horowitz on reviving a Polish Yiddish cabaret tune/dance, with @ruthieabeliovich.bsky.social moderating.

Fan studies, Crisco recipes, Yiddish lesboerotica — what more could you ask for in a #Farbindungen25 panel on "Practice as Method"? And with the eyn-un-eyntsike @evejochnowitz.bsky.social moderating, at that! Join us virtually by registering here: bit.ly/registerfarb...

Introducing! מיר שטעלן פֿאָר! The second panel of #Farbindungen25 is "Dos heyst taytsh? Unfaithful Translation." Featuring Rebecca Weingart, Uri Horesh, and Pamela Brenner, with Sunny Yudkoff. Register today, link in bio!

"Aroysgeshtelt." —Cartoon from April 23, 1920, by Lola (Leon Israel) in Der groyser kundes, a #Yiddish biweekly humor magazine, p. 3.

This is such a helpful and long overdue piece that demonstrates @annsplaining.bsky.social’s meticulous research about women’s spirituality and spiritual leadership in Jewish Eastern Europe.

1930s illustrations of Zelmenyaner characters: Uncle Zishe, Uncle Folye, Uncle Itshe, and Tsalke. - Zishe & Fole by Kh. M. Faynshteyn, reprinted in Dos vort [Kovne/Kaunas] (Feb 7, 1936). - Itshe & Tsalke in Shtraln [biweekly children's magazine] (1 June, 1938), p14. Via NLI/HJP.

#Farbindungen25 Bad Yiddish is in just two weeks! Take a look at the full schedule below to learn more about this year's panels, workshops, and keynote. The conference runs February 2-3. Register here - bit.ly/registerfarbindungen25 Full-text schedule - bit.ly/Farbindungen...

"In the confluence of Christmas and Hanukkah, in the days of the Yiddish New York festival, [Isaac Bashevis] Singer's ghosts and his language live on to haunt us." forward.com/culture/thea... Playing until Jan 15 @ Theatre 154.

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

Truly a wonderful time getting to chat with @sophielizbear.bsky.social about technology & US-American Judaism (and a lot of Yiddish) at the Skirball! (It seems the online version of the paper is footnote-less; let me know if you'd rather read the footnoted version.) Meanwhile, importantly — [cont.]

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.

LA-based folks, join me and Sophia Shoulson on December 3 to talk about the intersections of technology and American Judaism in the early 20th century—ft. typesetting, electric lights, timers, printing infrastructure, Yiddish, modernit(ies), and more. 📚💡 www.skirball.org/programs/how...

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)

On Sunday, October 29th, DraCor released its Yiddish corpus (YiDraCor), making these Yiddish plays highly machine readable and ready out-of-the-box for computational literary study. In this post, Jonah Lubin describes the corpus and its potential. https://buff.ly/40ljdlo

Curious about how @LIGO's sites were selected? My dissertation provides the fascinating history! Many years of work that is result of my unique combination of history of science and physics, law, and environmental history expertise. dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/373... #siteselection #histstm

Announcing the #Farbindungen25 (@farbindungen.bsky.social) #Yiddish Studies Conference: BAD YIDDISH Time to ask: "װי 'בעד' קען ייִדיש זײַן?" CFP: bit.ly/Farbindungen... Submit (by Nov 15): bit.ly/farbindungen25

My brilliant HASTS cohort-mate! (Full article: news.mit.edu/2024/mariel-...)

CFA: "Yiddish Technologies in Text and Context" Join me & @sophielizbear.bsky.social at NeMLA in Philly, March 6-9, 2025, to talk about the intersections of #histtech and #Yiddish! Abstract submissions due Sept 30. Panel description + submit: cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S...

“What Russia took – the lives of animals – can regenerate. But the act of taking has a legacy even if the most visible scars have faded. No theft is free.” Some new Yukon River writing in Granta granta.com/where-the-la...

"There’s something intimate in sitting with and attempting to translate the words of someone you’ll never know personally but whose writing directly resonates with you, your family, and your community’s experiences."

Very proud of my gevezenem-Yiddish-student Nathan Bernstein, whose art/poetry installation "Lider un kunst" is on display at Brandeis Apr 6-14: www.brandeis.edu/stories/2024... If you're in the Boston area, drop by!

NEW BOOK TALK! My next book "The 'Deafness Problem' in Modern Britain" will be published by McGill-Queen's UP in 2025. Two chapters discuss how the concept of hereditary deafness were shaped by eugenics policies in deaf schools & clinics. Contact me if you'd like me to discuss DEAF EUGENICS 👇

CFP[urim]: Farbinduckn Annual Conference (2025) In our fourth annual gathering, we aim to build the future of the field, cultivate it, harvest it, and then feed the milled grains to fowl. In doing so, we hope to incubate the next generation of downy Yiddish scholars.

It seems like every few years, the same astonished article on the revival of Yiddish is published across the various news outlets. Why not be efficient and just keep republishing the same article yourself?

Because laughter articulates a hope for survival - we offer you once again our Purim issue of In geveb.

Eyshe Beirich reviews Mikhl Yashinsky's original Yiddish play Di psure loyt khayim: "I would argue that Yashinsky’s play is less a play about a Messianic Jewish missionary and more a play about the very limits of Yiddish culture itself."

Ayelet Brinn & Miryem-Khaye Seigel launch #Farbindungen24 w/ a keynote ft. drag king Pepi Littman; the roles of women translators & secretaries in the history of the US Yiddish press; shtumer alef as queer. "Interrogate gender truisms!" & "Ask questions instead of nec. answering them."

You can still catch the livestream of Sasha Denisova's zany, tender MY MAMA AND THE FULLSCALE INVASION at the Wilma Theater (co-production with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company). This weekend only, anywhere in the world. 🇺🇦 www.lolst.org/my-mama?uid=...

A long-awaited chance to hear @bluma.bsky.social speak about Leivick (!) in conversation with Hannah Block Wickham on tkhines and Daniel Kraft on Zeitlin. It's going to be brilliant and ikh ken zikh koym dervartn, khevre.

Introducing! מיר שטעלן פֿאָר! Sunday's second panel is "Typography/ Orthography/ Materiality." Featuring Maya Gonzalez (Yiddish Book Center), Aleksandra Guja (Jagiellonian University), and Tyler Kliem (University of Pennsylvania). Register here - www.farbindungen.com/2024

Ready for some fun af der zun? Nothing screams ‘summer’ more than Yiddish immersion. In geveb has compiled our annual Summer Programs Roundup for 2024, and we’re excited to share essential information about what’s coming up in Yiddishland. ingeveb.org/pedagogy/yid...

דער ערשטער פּאַנעל פֿון #פֿאַרבינדונגען24 איז „ייִדיש מחוץ ייִדיש,“ װאָס מע װעט האַלטן אויף ייִדיש! מיט רעדנערס איישע בײַריך (קאָלומביע־אוניװערסיטעט), קריינע באָרד (טאָראָנטאָער אוניװערסיטעט), און יאָװיטאַ פּאַנטשיק (תּל־אָבֿיבֿער אוניװערסיטעט). www.farbindungen.com

Heads up! The deadline for requesting live captioning or sharing other access needs for #Farbindungen24 is February 5. You can let us know via the registration form below, or be in touch with us @ farbindungen at gmail dot com with any questions. bit.ly/registerfarbindungen24