Farbindungen Yiddish Studies Conference

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An annual Yiddish studies conference for graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and early career professionals. www.farbindungen.com See our 2026 call for papers and submit at: https://bit.ly/Farbindungen26Submission

Cartoon-stylized image of a white woman with shoulder length blond hair against a graph paper background. Text is the bio of Caroline Luce.
Text that reads "Thank you for joining us for Farbindungen 2025!"
A picture of Saul Noam Zaritt, with a bio and panel details. Long description linked in the reply.
Bios and workshop description for Giuliana Gotesdiner and Yazmin Kleiner. Long description linked in the reply.
A picture of Jake Schneider, with a bio and panel details. Long description linked in the reply.
An illustration of Asya Vaisman-Schulman, with a bio and panel details. Long description linked in the reply.
Bios of Hannah Lukow and Joshua Raclaw, with panel details. Long description linked in the reply.
A picture of Jason Rosenblum, with a bio and panel details. Long description linked in the reply.
A picture of Marcin Dzidek, with a bio and panel details. Long description linked in reply.
A picture of Rebecca Turner, with a bio and panel details. Long description linked in the reply.
A picture of Eve Glazier, with a bio and panel details. Long description linked in the reply.
A picture of Rachel Greiner, with a bio and panel details. Long description linked in reply.
A picture of Rebecca Weingart, with a bio and panel details. Long description linked in reply.
Graphic of schedule for Farbindungen 2025, day 1. A text-only schedule is included in the post above, which includes one line of Yiddish text in Panel 1, but is otherwise written in Roman characters.
Text says: Want to learn more about joining the Farbindungen organizing committee? INTEREST MEETING. Wednesday June 5th, 2:30 pm EST. Email us at: farbindungen [at] gmail [dot] com for the zoom link
Torn paper with a photo of Rebecca Weingart taped above a biography and next to workshop details. Long description linked in reply.
Torn paper with photo of Amanda Gordon taped above a biography and panel details. Long description linked in reply.
Torn paper with photo of Chana Toth-Sewell taped above a biography and panel details. Long description linked in reply.
Torn paper with photo of Auden Finch taped above a biography and panel details. Long description linked in reply.
Torn paper with photo of Magali Cécile Bertrand taped above a biography and panel details. Long description linked in reply.
Torn paper with photo of Hannah Block Wickham taped above a biography and panel details. Long description linked in reply.
Torn paper with photo of Maya Gonzalez taped above a biography and panel details. Long description linked in reply.
Torn paper with photo of Eyshe Beirich taped above a bio and panel details. Full plain-text version in reply.
Torn paper with photo of Eyshe Beirich taped above a yiddish language bio. Full plain-text translation in reply.
The poster for the Farbindungen24 keynote speakers, Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel and Ayelet Brinn, with pictures of both speakers. It includes the date and time - Sunday February 18th, 2024, at 9-10:30am EST.
A bio for Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel, which reads as follows: AMANDA (MIRYEM-KHAYE) SEIGEL is a Yiddish singer, songwriter, actor, recording artist, and scholar in Yiddish music and culture who “exemplifies the attempt to bring a centuries-old language and culture into the contemporary world” (New York Times). She has performed internationally and released a CD called TOYZENT TAMEN=A THOUSAND FLAVORS. Miryem-Khaye is co-editor (with Alyssa Quint) of WOMEN ON THE YIDDISH STAGE (Legenda, 2023) and a member of the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project. She received YIVO’s Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship for her research project THE BRODER SINGERS: FORERUNNERS OF THE YIDDISH THEATER. Please visit memkhes.com
A bio for Ayelet Brinn, which reads as follows - AYELET BRINN is an Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies and History at the University of Hartford, where she holds the Philip D. Feltman Professorship in Modern Jewish History. A historian of American Jewish culture, she researches the history of American Jewish print. After receiving her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, she held a Rabin-Shvidler Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship in Jewish Studies at Columbia University and Fordham University, the Ivan and Nina Ross Family Fellow, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, and was a Scholar in Residence at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. Her first book, A REVOLUTION IN TYPE: GENDER AND THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN YIDDISH PRESS, was just released with New York University Press.
A sketched and filled in red calligraphed Aleph on a light grey background
On a mostly white background (the bottom left is a blue calligraphed letter alef), the details of the upcoming proposal workshop are listed: Sunday November 5th, 1-2PM, in English, on Zoom. The link is in the tweet itself.
"באַקענט זיך מיט די באַשטאַנדטײלן פֿון אַן אַקאַדעמישן קאָפֿערענץ־פֿאָרלײג. זאָלט נישט פֿאַרפֿעלן די געלעגנהײט צו באַאַרבעטן אײַער פֿאָרלײג אױף ייִדיש!! גיט אַ קװעטש דאָ! https://www.farbindungen.com/2024
אַ גרױסער װײַסער א אױף אַ שװאַרצן הינטערגרונד. עס שטײט דאָ׃ פֿאַרבינדונגען קאָנפֿערענץ פֿאַר ייִדישע לימודים 18-19 פֿעברואַר 2024: "שטומער א׃ אָנהײבן / שװײַגענישן / שותּפֿותן" אַ קול־קורא׃ רעפֿעראַט־אָדער־װאַרשטאַט־פֿאָרלײגן דאַרפֿן געשיקט װערן ביז דעם 19טן נאָװעמבער 2023.
A large letter alef in white over a black background. The Farbindungen Logo is in the bottom-left. Text reads: Farbindungen Yiddish Studies Conference 18-19 February 2024. "Shtumer Alef: Beginnings / Silences / Partnerships. Call for Proposals due 19 Nov 2023. (The link is in the written caption)