Mehrsprachigkeit jüdischer Literaturen @mehrspra-jued-lit.bsky.social "Stimmengewirr in der Nachbarschaft: Herausforderungen in der Erforschung jüdischer Literaturen zwischen Sprachen und Disziplinen" | Netzwerk gefördert durch die @dfg.de an der @goetheuni.bsky.social #JüdischeLiteraturen #JewishLiteratures #multilingualism
Rabbi David Polsky @motownrabbi.bsky.social Friendly Orthodox rabbi; NYC➡️Nola➡️ Michigan;
👨👩👧👧 Torah thoughts and #dadjokes; #blacklivesmatter; he/him/his
Martin-Buber-Institut für Judaistik @mbikoeln.bsky.social Willkommen auf dem Bluesky-Kanal vom MBI! Hier posten wir über Neuigkeiten und Veranstaltungen rund um die Jüdischen Studien an der Uni Köln.
https://judaistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/
Theodor Dunkelgrün @theodunkelgrun.bsky.social Historian | Asst Prof @uantwerpen.be | PhD UChicago | postdocs @cam.ac.uk | Early Modern Europe & the Mediterranean, the History of Scholarship, of the Book, and of the Jews | Hagenaar | FRHistS
I come from merchants in textile, and work on text and exile
jesse @einsofist.bsky.social medievalist
Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social Postdoc @jacculturelmu.bsky.social | Blog: http://medisi.hypotheses.org | Arabic Bible | Manuscript Studies | Book History | Provenance | SciCom | #FirstGen
https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/team/tarras-peter/
Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ 🎨✍🏻 🦋 Londoner in the Middle West. Historian of late antiquity and Talmud scholar. Comics artist and painter. First Gen x 3.
Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Editor at large, The Bulwark.
Director, Defending Democracy Together.
Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol.
Never Trump.
Ofer Idels @oferidels.bsky.social Historian | Zionism and Experience | Postdoc @ucalgary.bsky.social | Former Humboldt Fellow | Author: Zionism: Emotions, Language & Experience (CUP) & Embodying the Revolution (RUP) | @newcastleunited.com Fan.
https://ucalgary.academia.edu/OferIdels
Roni Henig @ronihenig.bsky.social Assistant professor of modern Hebrew literature, nyu | Author, On Revival: Hebrew Literature Between Life and Death (UPenn Press, 2024) https://www.pennpress.org/9781512826609/on-revival/
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.
Craig Perry @caperry.bsky.social Teacher-scholar at the intersection of World History, Jewish Studies, and Islamic Civilizations Studies. New book in 2026: https://bit.ly/PerrySlavery. Co-editor: The Cambridge World History of Slavery vol. 2: https://bit.ly/CWHS2
Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi @rjelevi.bsky.social Ethicist, half-assed text nerd. Sexual ethics & Jewish text. Queer. AuDHD. She/her.
Current project: The Neurodivergent Talmud
Book: When We Collide: Sex, Social Risk, and Jewish Ethics (IUP 2023)
RJELevi.com
Adrienne Williams Boyarin @aboyarin.bsky.social UVic prof, medievalist, Anglo-Jewish women, Early Middle English, etc
Shachar Pinsker @spinsker.bsky.social Professor of Middle East Studies and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Writer, Editor, Translator. 
Alan Brill @kavvanah.bsky.social Professor at Seton Hall, Interfaith, Jewish Thought, Comparative Theology, Modern Orthodoxy, and Kabbalah. Forthcoming Book: A Jewish Trinity: Contemporary Christian Theology Through Jewish Eyes (Fortress:2025) --find me on my blog kavvanah.blog
Nitzan Lebovic @nitzanl1.bsky.social Intellectual historian
Jüdische Studien @juedstudien.bsky.social Fachinformationsdienst Jüdische Studien — Specialized Information Service for Jewish Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt | www.jewishstudies.de
Mirjam Wenzel @mirjamwenzel.bsky.social Author, Curator, Museum Enthusiast, Collector of Jewish Memories and Stories, Honorary Professor for Jewish Studies @goetheuni.bsky.social, Director of @jmfrankfurt.bsky.social
Judith Müller @judithmueller.bsky.social PostDoc @GoetheUniversity, Coordinator @BuberInstitut, Literary Scholar, Hebrew Literature, Jewish Literatures | PhD @UniBasel and @bengurionu | 📚🎓💻🍷🐕🏃🏼 | Frankfurt / Basel | https://www.linkedin.com/in/judith-m%C3%BCller-a4692420b/
Steven Samols @swsamols.bsky.social ISGAP-Woolf Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Cambridge (St Edmund’s College). Researcher of photography and its relationship to history and historical consciousness.
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
Stefanie Mahrer @stefanie-mahrer.bsky.social Modern Jewish history scholar - interested in migration, exile, antisemitism and gender - and Swiss history /
Prof @ Uni Bern and lecturer @ Uni Basel /
Mother of two
Geoffrey Claussen @geoffclaussen.bsky.social Religious Studies/Jewish Studies Professor at Elon University. Author: Modern Musar: Contested Virtues in Jewish Thought • Jewish Ethics: The Basics • Sharing the Burden: Rabbi Simhah Zissel Ziv and the Path of Musar
Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social Your neighborhood legal historian with a focus on constructions of race & antisemitism in US law. She/her (was @queenmab87 at the other place)
https://open.substack.com/pub/miabrett
CU Boulder Program in Jewish Studies @cujewishstudies.bsky.social Academic program at the University of Colorado Boulder offering Majors and Minors in Jewish Studies.
https://linktr.ee/cujewishstudies
Miriam Anzovin @miriamanzovin.bsky.social writer, artist, nerd, makeup aficionado, & human symbiote to a small opinionated dog ✨ #DafReactions creator, works at #BigTalmud ✨ She/her ✨Let’s F&*king Go-lem! https://linktr.ee/miriamanzovin
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com Researcher @mantrams.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk; FRHistS; Iran, Zoroastrianism, late antiquity, philology; Founder of @biblioIranica.info; AIS inaugural Book Prize for Ancient Iranian Studies 2022. Personal account, my views.
https://linktr.ee/arashzeini
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)
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Jewish Review of Books @jewishreviewbooks.bsky.social A quarterly magazine of Jewish criticism, religion, and culture and monthly web-exclusive reviews and essays.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962.
Website: https://mitpress.mit.edu
The Reader (our home for excerpts, essays, & interviews): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com ‘The premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.’
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Matt Thiessen @mattthiessen.bsky.social Associate Professor of Religious Studies, McMaster University. Author of Jesus & the Forces of Death and A Jewish Paul: The Messiah's Herald to the Gentiles.
Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social Ohio State Classics faculty, formerly ODU History dept; PhD from UChicago; MTS+ThM from HCHC; history + material culture of ancient religion; chanter, knitter, weaver; Minnesotan; author of Contested Cures bit.ly/3sMTELi
Shayna Sheinfeld @shaynasheinfeld.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion. Research: Ancient Judaism & Christianity; Gender; Apocalypse; Pop Culture. Jew. She/her.
M Adryael Tong, Ph.D. @madryaeltong.bsky.social Assistant Professor of New Testament and Judaic Studies. HBCU Stan. Theoryhead. Views my own. RT ≠ endorsement.🌹🥢🏳️🌈 #FlyEaglesFly #NotMeUs she/היא
Jill Hicks-Keeton @jillhickskeeton.bsky.social 
Liane Feldman @lianemfeldman.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion & Judaic Studies at Princeton University; studying all things temple, sacrifice, and mathematics in Bible and Second Temple Jewish literature. Mediocre but persistent runner; Red Sox fan
Matt Chalmers @mjchalmers.bsky.social Educator, researcher, scholar of religion | nota bene: guy to ask about Samaritans
Jordan Rosenblum @profrosenblum.bsky.social Professor of Classical Judaism, University of Wisconsin-Madison; studies ancient food and plays modern guitar (he/him)
James Nati @jamesnati.bsky.social Assistant Professor. Hebrew Bible & Early Judaism. Santa Clara University Jesuit School of Theology
Yonatan Adler @yonatan.bsky.social Archaeology and Early Judaism
Associate Professor
@arieluniversity
Author of:
The Origins of Judaism (Yale 2022)
Between Yahwism and Judaism (Cambridge 2025)
Joe Scales @josephscales.bsky.social PI and postdoktor @ Universitetet i Bergen | Analysing violent variations in ancient Jewish narrative (AViVa) | NFR prosjektnr 359600
Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Bible | Qumran | Pseudepigrapha | navigating academia with kids
David Cielontko @dcielontko.bsky.social Early Judaism, NT & early Christianity, Assist. Prof. at @ptfcuni.bsky.social (Prague)
Joan Taylor @joantaylor.bsky.social Historian; works in archaeology, film, art, material culture; writes on 2T Judaism, early Christianity & beyond; novelist; poem-maker; illustrator; wife; mum; immigrant; Anglo-Danish Kiwi. Relaxes by walking, chatting, gardening, pottering, seeing films.
David M. Miller @ntdmiller.bsky.social Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Judaism, Briercrest College & Seminary
https://gervatoshav.blogspot.com/
Michael Johnson @scrollsgeek.bsky.social Interests: #DeadSeaScrolls #Hodayot #DigitalHumanities #Psalms, Songs, and Hymns in the #DSS & #HebrewBible scrollsgeek.com
Cineaste Magazine @cineastemagazine.bsky.social America's Leading Magazine on the Art and Politics of the Cinema
https://www.cineaste.com/
Monika Halbinger @mhalbinger.bsky.social Historian, Jewish Life, Jewish History, Feminist, Social Justice, Street Photography, Austria/Czech Republic🪬 עם ישראל חי
Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social Founded in 1946, Jewish Currents is a magazine committed to the rich tradition of thought, activism, and culture of the Jewish left.
Subscribe today!
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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Yoel Finkelman @yoelf.bsky.social Jewish book nerd and stuff
Fred MacDowell @fredmacdowell.bsky.social e. g., Artist, Dog Lover and Avid Reader
Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social Reading & writing on early modern Jewish history, women writers, old books & libraries of all ages, collective memory, higher ed. I like to be around people I can learn from, esp students & my kids. Love Irish trad sessions https://orcid.org/0000-0002-388
Hanna Gentili @hannagentili.bsky.social Research Associate, HEPMASITE, Universität Hamburg • previously @ British Library • PhD from the Warburg Institute • Jewish Studies - Renaissance Studies - Digital Humanities
Vanessa Freedman @vrfreedman.bsky.social Hebrew & Jewish Studies librarian at University College London. Co-convenor, Hebraica Libraries Group. Posts are my own views etc She/her
Avinoam J. Stillman @ashkenazthree.bsky.social Historian (early modern Jews)
Publisher (Blima Books)
Freelance Ritualist- D David Wachtel @dawachtel.bsky.social Senior Appraiser, Rare Books Consulting LLC; Research Librarian for Special Collections Emeritus, The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary; formerly Senior Consultant for Judaica, Sotheby’s NY.
Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social Independent scholar: research interests in hermeneutics, textual criticism, and the classical tradition; aurum in stercore
(I don't use Chat)
Liz Shayne @lizshayne.bsky.social Rabbanit, digital books enthusiast, student of Halacha, accidental creator of curious data viz, knitter, autistic. Talks about all of the above. (she/her)
Haim Gottschalk @hgot.bsky.social I am a Hebraica-Judaica Cataloging Librarian, cataloging across the board in subjects and classification, ranging from 15th cen. through newest publications.
Efrex @efrex.bsky.social Father of 4, Orthodox Jew, Liberal Zionist (probably doesn’t mean what you think it does), ADHD, straight musical theater queen, tired. Posting barbershop quartet content until the timeline improves…
David Feltmate @davidfeltmate.bsky.social Professor of Sociology; Scholar of Religion and Popular Culture, Humor, and Social Theory; Co-editor, Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
Dov @drnelk.bsky.social All fire, no chill. Husband/Father. I philosoPHizeD about Ethics @ UVA, and ever true to Brown. I teach text and thought to HS students in NYC.
Philip Forness @philipforness.bsky.social Associate Professor of Eastern Christianity at KU Leuven.
Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social Dilettante, Director of Jewish Studies at Queen's, I've stopped working on myself because I am tired.
Isabel Toral @itoral.bsky.social Arabic studies, premodern; climate, gender, politics; Spain, Germany and Europe..Madrid. Berlin. Cats. Owls. Food in history. History. Late Antiquity. Iraq and al-Andalus
Yosef Rosen @yoselle.bsky.social Historian of Kabbalah & Jewish Magic.
Director of Jewish Life & Learning at the Portland Jewish Federation.
Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social Holocaust, Jewish, feminist, and queer history. She/her. Ukraine stan. Author of The Last Ghetto and People without History Are Dust
Nesi Altaras @nesialtaras.bsky.social Stanford phd in ottoman jewish history. diaspora montrealer. istanbul jew. Me karisheo en meseles. Eskriviendo bazen en djudio and eng, ve turkce
he/him/ijiko
Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social East Central European, Modern Jewish, and Human Rights History at Purdue U. Shofar journal. Bard, CEU Budapest, Columbia alumna. Displacement, Dispersion, Diaspora. coffee, black. 🖤🧿 #skystorians 🗃
Anne Klotz @acklotz.bsky.social Historian, Postdoc & Lecturer of the Holocaust, Yiddish, East European & Jewish history @HebrewUniversity. Feminist, Firstgen, Zonenkind. 👩🏻🎓💄🌹
Mirjam Zadoff @mirjamzadoff.bsky.social writer, historian & curator
director @nsdoku.bsky.social
recent books:
Wie wir überwintern. Den Lebensmut durch die harten Zeiten retten
Gewalt und Gedächtnis. Globale Erinnerung im 21. Jahrhundert
Louis Fishman لوي فيشمان לואי פישמן @istanbultelaviv.bsky.social Associate Prof Brooklyn College; Jews and Palestinians in the late Ottoman era: Turkish, Israeli/Palestinian affairs; working on a book focusing on a post-Oct 7 historical narrative of Palestine/Israel. Haaretz and more; Website: https://louisfishman.com/
Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne • Advisory Board @ H-Judaic & EMoDiR • alumna HebrewU, Harvard, Penn, Oxford, Göttingen
#earlymodern and #modern Jewish history and #BookHistory
📍 Paris
Philipp Lenhard @philipplenhard.bsky.social Professor of Jewish History at the University of Vienna and Academic Director of the Institute of Jewish History in Austria | Private account | DE/EN
http://www.injoest.ac.at/en/institute/staff/philipp-lenhard
Miri Rubin @mirierubin.bsky.social Historian, study the ‘Middle Ages’, work at the great School of History at Queen Mary University of London. 
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.
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
Agata Paluch @agpal.bsky.social Professor of Jewish Studies in the Premodern Era, University of Cologne | early modern Central-Eastern Europe - Jewish history & book cultures - kabbalah & Jewish knowledge | neurodivergent | views my own
Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social Sociologist, dad, attenuated Jew, nervous anti-fascist, rootless cosmopolitan, drum and bass fan, out of practice salsa dancer, asphalt botaniser, glutton, insomniac, hearing impaired, union member, living in London
Jodi Eichler-Levine @jeichlerlevine.bsky.social Berman Professor of Jewish Civilization, Lehigh *
Author, PAINTED POMEGRANATES AND NEEDLEPOINT RABBIS
writing a new book on Disney/religion
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https://jodieichlerlevine.com/
https://religion.cas.lehigh.edu/faculty-staff/jodi-eic
Françoïs Guesnet @guesnet.bsky.social Based in London and Berlin.
Modern Jewish history @ University College London, focus Poland/Eastern Central Europe.
Co-chair Board of Editors of 'Polin. Studies in Polish Jewry', Secretary European Association for Jewish Studies.
Stand with Ukraine!
British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies @biajs.bsky.social to nurture, cultivate and advance the teaching and research in Jewish culture and history in all its aspects within Higher Education in the British Isles
https://bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com
Christopher Silver @christophersilver.bsky.social Historian, author of Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa (SUP, 2022), collector of records, associate professor of Jewish history and culture at McGill University, curator of gharamophone.com
Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social We published a new book: "Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives across Cold War Borders" (https://www.press.purdue.edu/9781626712645)
Jewish, Czech & Cold-War hist: https://tinyurl.com/36zsaffc
OyKay JLP: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/W7Vy5CXGc4A
Joseph Finlay @josephfinlay.bsky.social Historian of British Jews and race relations. Composer and Musical Director. Socialist and דאָיִקער. Writing on Jewish issues at www.toratalbion.org.uk