watched zoolander on this

“When Pepi Littman stepped out onto the stage and caught sight of the [armed gangsters in the first row], she choked up out of fear and was unable even to open her mouth.” New from the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project — excerpts from Zina Rapel’s memoirs, trans. Zachary Baker. uwm.edu/yiddish-stag...

From Ancient Greek to 20 century Yiddish, and from Spain to Georgia: the #DraCor Corpora Conference at #DraCorSummit 2025 is starting right now! 18 @dracor.org corpora presentations to go! The first one is by @juliajbeine.bsky.social about the #NeoLatDraCor

✨ We're kicking off the #DraCorSummit 2025 in Berlin today! 5 days of digital drama analysis, enhancing #DraCor, and celebrating #OpenScience with participants from around the world at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. Programme: summit.dracor.org @temporal-communities.de @unipotsdam.bsky.social

“Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.” walzr.com/IMG_0001 this is beautiful 🥲

very nice language mixing בײַ שלום־עליכם

Entry: מְעִי only in Is 17:1; n[m.] = עִי ruin-heap, but form very strange

A fascinating exploration of Chinese reception of Egyptian antiquity by our visiting fellow Tian Tian!

⁂°⁂ ‎הֵה m. heh, name of a worm in the pomegranate. Sabb. 90 a (Var. הֵא, חָח, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. notes 200 a. 300; Alf. ed. הח). ⁂°⁂

‎⁂°⁂ ‎*בִּסְתַּיָּיר (read בִּסְטַ') m. (vestiarius, βεστιάριος S.) the keeper of the ( royal) wardrobe. Pesik. R. s. 10.m. ⁂°⁂

‎⁂°⁂ ‎אַמְגּוּשְׁתָּא f. (deriv. of preced. ws.) magianism, magian practices. Sabb. 75 a א' רב ושמואל Ms. M. (ed. מגושתא, Var. אמגושא) as to magianism Rab and Samuel differ, one declaring it to be sorcery, the other—blasphemy. ⁂°⁂

Why do we always assume that these bird names we can't identify are ostriches??

‎⁂°⁂ ‎וַרְדָּנָא m. (וַרְדָּא), בי וו' flower-garden (v. וֶרֶד II pl.). B. Bath. 69 a והוא דקרו ליה בי וו' דפ' Ms. M. (ed. לה וורדא; oth. Mss. וַורְדֵּי, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) provided it goes by the name of ‘the flower garden of that man.’ ⁂°⁂

‎⁂°⁂ כַּנְדָּא, m. (κάνδυς, Pers. ) a gown with wide sleeves.— Pl. כַּנְדֵּי . M. Kat. 24 a תליסר כ' מאני Ar. (ed. תריסר מני; Ms. M. תל' בגדי מני, מני being a gloss to our w.). ⁂°⁂

roadnet: U.S. roads (CA, PA, TX). Road networks from three US states (CA, PA, TX), in which edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads. 1090920 nodes, 3083796 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/roadnet#PA Ridiculogram:

Today’s #highlight for me on the last day of #DH2025? @lucagiovannini.bsky.social presenting his "Modest Proposal for Operationalizing Dramatic Texts". He proposes drama vectorization not to simplify plays, but rather to continue formalist morphological thinking using computational tools. 🎭📊

— Why are you using YAML? — I don't know, Frank told me to... #DH2025

Next up #DH2025, @kuremhs.bsky.social (@harvard.edu) presenting iberz.org, our database of Yiddish translations. Slides: sreyfe.github.io/slides/2025-... Website: iberz.org #DigitalHumanities @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

Still holding… #DH2025

💫 We just rolled out a new #DraCor release featuring significant improvements to the API, Frontend, and Schema. Full update here: weltliteratur.net/dracor-platf... #DigitalHumanities #DH2025

Entry: א Āleph, first letter; in postBHeb. = numeral 1 (and so in margin of printed MT); אֿ = 1000; no evidence of this usage in OT times.

crazy: papiamentu uses a modal verb derived from dutch "worden" to mark passive

linux: Linux source inclusions (v3.16). A network of Linux (v3. 30837 nodes, 213954 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/linux Ridiculogram:

did i dream that there was some sort of connection between the names of the kings and the names of the cities in Genesis 14? cuz i was sure there was and now i can't find anything

Eric Joas and Olof Bortz share an overview of the work of Mordechai Forlerer, a Yiddish translator of, and enthusiast for, Swedish literature whose work shows the transnational nature of Yiddish culture during the interwar period. English translation by Matthew Johnson. ingeveb.org/blog/mordko-...

Taper #14: Sonnets is out! Come explore 28 tiny self-contained computational creative works that explore the sonnet as a form or engage with some aspect of the number 14. taper.badquar.to/14/ #elit #creativecoding #art #sonnet

fullerene_structures: Fullerene molecular structures. Fifteen networks of carbon atoms and the atomic bonds that connect them within molecules of fullerenes, from 60 atoms up to 6000 atoms. 4860 nodes, 7290 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/fullerene_structures#C4860 Ridiculogram:

anyone know ways Rashi expresses "i don't know" besides אֵינִי יוֹדֵעַ" and "לֹא יָדַעְתִּי"?

did some distant viewing of Columbo a la @nolauren.bsky.social @taylor-arnold.bsky.social @umblaetterer.bsky.social and @columboscreens.bsky.social www.klejb.net/posts/2025-0...

Random midrash time: Job (יוב, Gen 46:13), son of Issachar, complained that his name sounded like that of an idol (Jove). So his father gave him his שׁ, turning his name into Jashub (ישוב, Num 26:24). That's why the second ש in Issachar is silent (יִשָּׂשכָר).

who remembers this guys toes

alter was?

a 19th century letter manual, decomposed and recomposed: www.monathierse.net/lettergenera...

We have extended the deadline for submissions to our special issue on "Yiddish Science Fiction" to Monday, May 5th. We seek submissions for our blog, pedagogy, and translation sections, as well as a special section of minyaturn. More information: ingeveb.org/blog/call-fo...

little blog post with Stammbaums of object inheritances in Photoshop 1.0.1, nach @tillheilmann.bsky.social www.klejb.net/posts/2025-0...

Just published @hsozkult.bsky.social: Conference report · "Linked Open Data and Literary Studies" www.hsozkult.de/conferencere... @luntner.bsky.social @viktor.im @kuremhs.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @temporal-communities.de Slide sets: www.temporal-communities.de/events/2024/...

Twen­ty-some­thing year-old Yid­dish stu­dent Judith Lern­er has just set the world record for ​“Con­tin­u­ous Streak of Lek­sikon Shpil Wins in One Guess”. She kind­ly agreed to talk with us about her ori­gins, process, and what she plans to do next. ingeveb.org/blog/world-r...

NEW ESSAY — Jennifer Manoukian recovers the cunning exploits of Ambroise Calfa, a forgotten 19th-century conman who claimed to be a direct descendant of a 12th-century king.

»Rubens would never have chopped off Samson’s toe«

Introducing olmOCR, our open-source tool to extract clean plain text from PDFs! Built for scale, olmOCR handles many document types with high throughput. Run it on your own GPU for free—at over 3000 token/s, equivalent to $190 per million pages, or 1/32 the cost of GPT-4o!

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

Try to beat me at the Leksikon Shpil (02/18/2025) 🟥🟩⬜⬜⬜ www.leksikonshpil.net

Try to beat me at the Leksikon Shpil (02/17/2025) 🟥🟩⬜⬜⬜ www.leksikonshpil.net

In geveb is pleased to present a list of trans­la­tions from Yid­dish into oth­er lan­guages, pub­lished in 2024. https://buff.ly/42R4OPc

after you, benjamin! god's very polite...

Into cryptic crosswords? We’ve started our very own “tiny cryptic” series! Published fortnightly on our blog. See the inaugural puzzle here: publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/01...

ich halte den vierten kaulitz bruder seit 1996 in einer holzhütte im teutoburger wald geheim

OMG! Because I didn't read further, I missed that "Bootstrapping Pipelines for the Computational Analysis of Literature" was about YIDDISH!! 😍https://apps.neh.gov/publicquery/AwardDetail.aspx?gn=HAA-300628-24