@hpollingalay.bsky.social @hpollingalay.bsky.social Prof of Holocaust and Yiddish Studies, mother, author of Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish, proud to be a political outsider in both Israel and US
Justine O-S 🪞 @justineodashs.bsky.social writer! MA. folklorist, hobby baker, באָבעלע. repro funder, covered in cat hair.
AN AMERICAN GIRL ANTHOLOGY out now from University Press of Mississippi 📓
📍New Jersey
https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/An-American-Girl-Anthology
Oshn Ayen Shin @osian-es.bsky.social Yiddish / Cinema / Puppets
אַז מע בענקט שטאַרק און אויף אַן אמת, בענקט מען אויס אַלע זאַכן
Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social Historian researching communism and anti-fascism in the 30s and 40s, Spanish Civil War and (l'havdil) professional Jewish women who spoke to the dead. www.pullingatthreads.com. Yiddish teacher and translator.
Karolina Krasuska @karolinakrasuska.bsky.social Prof., University of Warsaw | transnational literature, gender/queer theory | “Soviet-Born: Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction” (Rutgers UP, 2024)| 🐈⬛owner | she/her
Magali Cécile Bertrand @magcbertrand.bsky.social Apprentie enseignante chercheuse intéressée par l'anthropologie et les SHS en général, la sociolinguistique et les sciences de l'éducation.
Je passe généralement du temps à lire et rédiger au sujet du yiddish, du FLE et de l'enseignement en immersion.
Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, Sarah Lawrence College. PhD in Religious Studies, University of Chicago. Globalist Elite, Ruthless Cosmopolitan, and Thing-in-Itself-hating Jew. Husband of @petticoatshrink.bsky.social. He/Him/הוא/ער
Tahneer Oksman @tahneeroksman.bsky.social Teach journalism; cultural critic, esp of memoir and graphic novels/comics, for NPR and others; some books on some things; Brooklyn, NY. Opinions mine.
Sarah Ponichtera @sarahsomesuch.bsky.social Professional: Special Collections, archives, museums, digital collections and exhibits, at Seton Hall. Personal: board games and video games, as children allow!
Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social - The Polish Exile: Chabad Hasidism in the Interwar Years (https://www.mqup.ca/Books/T/The-Polish-Exile)
- Hasidism: the Basics (https://www.routledge.com/Hasidism-The-Basics/Wodzinski-Tworek/p/book/9781032994871)
א לוסטיקער פעסימיסט
@ruthieabeliovich.bsky.social @ruthieabeliovich.bsky.social
Sam Glauber @sglauber.bsky.social PhD candidate in Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University. Interested in Yididsh, occultism, Jewish book culture, and all things occult.
Jacob @yankevh.bsky.social PhD student (sorry) in Toronto, Yiddish etc. anti-imperialist, he/they
Rachel B. Gross @rachelbgross.bsky.social Studying U.S. Jews and finding religion in unexpected places | Assoc. Prof. at SF State | Author: Beyond the Synagogue | Now: Mary Antin’s spiritual adventures | https://linktr.ee/rachelbgross
Jüdische Studien @juedstudien.bsky.social Fachinformationsdienst Jüdische Studien — Specialized Information Service for Jewish Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt | www.jewishstudies.de
Sarah Biskowitz @sarahbiskowitz.bsky.social Yiddishist. Feminist. Jewish cultural activist & educator. She/her.
elzéard bouffier @yetzerhurrah.bsky.social yiddishist, historian, speculative fiction writer, diasporist layabout
Hannah Lukow @hannahlukow.bsky.social PhD’ing in Applied Linguistics at Penn State. I research the politics of language learning, Yiddish, language and social movements, queer/trans linguistics
she/they
Yugntruf - Kinder-Loshn Publications @yugntruf.bsky.social Promotes Yiddish by creating opportunities for learning/immersion. Publishes classic works of Yiddish kids lit in bilingual editions. http://kinderloshn.org
https://www.yugntruf.org/
Rebecca Weingart @rebeccaweingart.bsky.social Translator
Co-editor of Tern Journal https://ternjournal.org/
she/זי
Faith Nomi Jones @faith1965.bsky.social Yiddish, social justice, free Palestine
Kerry Wallach @kerrywallach.bsky.social German & Jewish Studies. Literature, history, film, art. Author of Traces of a Jewish Artist (2024) & Passing Illusions (2017). kerrywallach.com
Elissa Bemporad @elissabemporad.bsky.social Historian of all things Jewish/Soviet/Ukrainian/Russian/Yiddish. Author of Legacy of Blood. ✍️Writing the biography of the great Ester Frumkin. I’m a feminist, and can’t live without Parmigiano and tennis.
The Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at American Ancestors @jewishheritage.bsky.social Preserving New England Jewish history, exploring Jewish heritage, and advancing understanding of the American Jewish experience. 🕎
https://jewishheritagecenter.org/
Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social The Leo Baeck Institute London is a research institute dedicated to the study of German-Jewish history and culture, organising research projects, fellowships and public events. Affiliated with Birkbeck, University of London
https://www.lbilondon.ac.uk
Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im Klezmer music history researcher, library technician from Vancouver BC. Research immigrant klezmer musician families, compositions & social organizations, Indonesian left-wing history, etc. History MA UBC 2019. Wikipedia editor. Posts about Cdnpoli/Vanpoli
Uri Horesh @urihoresh.bsky.social Queer sociolinguist and humanist. Based in St Andrews, Scotland until January 2027. Free Palestine and end the genocide.
Sean Sidky @ssidky.bsky.social Teaching & writing about American Judaism, Holocaust lit., Yiddish, & Pedagogy | He/him/his- S @shrclb.bsky.social @shrclb.bsky.social
Joel Berkowitz @joelberkowitz.bsky.social Full-time dual-authenticator.
"A sorta big name for Wisconsin Jews" - my son Reuben.
Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Yiddish at UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies. Book: It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity (Stanford UP). Working on Yiddish plays by women. Yiddish, German, dance, theatre, gender studies. https://soniagollance.com
Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Yiddish, The Ohio State University / A Taytsh Manifesto: https://www.fordhampress.com/9781531509170/a-taytsh-manifesto / new project: shund.org
Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social Studying how Jews meet modernity. Children’s lit—>democracy. Labzik, Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature @TIJSatEmory @yeshivatmaharat
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social Yiddish Studies scholar & translator & language instructor & editor
Zackary Berger שלום בערגער @drberger.bsky.social Doctor, researcher, poet, translator. #AbolishICE #BlackLivesMatter prons: he él ער הוא 他
https://linktr.ee/zackarysholemberger
UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies @uclhjs.bsky.social University College London is the only UK university with a department dedicated to Jewish Studies. Our programs span from ancient texts to modern politics.
Account run by Dept Admin, CMJ
Alona Bach @bachwards.bsky.social Archive haunter (where history of technology + Yiddish meet); theater-maker; rogue illustrator. Current postdoc @ Tenement Museum; PhD from MIT History/HASTS.
she/her | 📷: Der praktisher elektrotekhniker (1925)
Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social Yiddish, German, literature, art, monuments, museums.
My book about 4 of the above: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33157
Associate Professor @ Johns Hopkins.
Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘵 𝘑𝘦𝘸 𝘞𝘢𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘦 (Harvard, 2022) https://bit.ly/SovietJewBook | 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘵 (Stanford, 2026) https://www.sup.org/books/jewish-studies/shadow-holocaust | he/him | Opinions my own | My website: sashasenderovich.weebly.com
In geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social A Journal of Yiddish Studies 🦚(www.ingeveb.org)
Jen Again @jyoungb.bsky.social History/museum/education. Unapologetically bad knitter.
eddy portnoy @eddyportnoy.bsky.social thus far dubious
S. Shoulson / שׂ. בערעלע @sophielizbear.bsky.social Sophia. Dissertating at JHU, writing about modern Yiddish literature and print culture. she/her.