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Jewish Language Project retweeted
Thank you @Forverts for this great review of Isaac Bashevis Singer's "Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt: The War Years, 1939-1945," translated and edited by @davidscribbler and available today from the Center's imprint, White Goat Press. Read the review: forward.com/forverts-in-engl…
Writer David Stromberg @davidscribbler began translating I.B. Singer's essays that he wrote using the pen name, Yitskhok Varshavski. Singer often portrayed himself as the sole guardian of the annihilated world of Polish Jewry.
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Jewish Language Project retweeted
We are excited to share our #TermProgramme for Michaelmas 2023! It contains a comprehensive list of and information about our #lectures, #seminars and other activities. We hope to see you at some of them this autumn! ochjs.ac.uk/news/term-progra… #JewishStudies
Jewish Language Project retweeted
Documenting Judeo-Spanish exhibit, now open and on display for the academic year! @bingulibraries @binghamtonu #Ladino
Jewish Language Project retweeted
It's time for our #Ladino Quote of the Week!
Every week, we share a quote or phrase in Ladino related to the theme of a weekly Torah portion, upcoming holiday, or seasonal theme - take a look!
Jewish Language Project retweeted
Announcing a new #OSRJL #JewishMusic class! In Michaelmas Term 2023, Dr Diana Matut will teach 'The Origins of #Yiddish Music, 1300-1800'. For more details and to #apply (deadline 6 October), see: ochjs.ac.uk/language-classes…. #JewishStudies #JewishLanguages
Dr Diana Matut will be teaching Introduction to the History of Yiddish Music at Oxford @OCHJSnews (online). She’s an incredible pedagogue and a brilliant scholar in the field. @jewishmusicUK @kleznorth @flaxter @jbgranick @UriSchreter ochjs.ac.uk/michaelmas-term-…
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In anticipation of the High Holidays, join @JewishLanguages on September 13 for an online lecture about the fascinating phenomenon of Jewish "festal names," personal names derived from holidays and months on the Jewish calendar. Learn more and register: jewishlanguages.org/events
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Here's a recap of the August @JewishLanguages Word of the Week posts! The Jewish English Lexicon WOW contains words that appear in a crowdsourced dictionary of words used by Jews within English. Check the full entries in the Jewish English Lexicon: jel.jewish-languages.org/
Jewish Language Project retweeted
We know that our very own @EstherK really loved moderating this conversation for @JewishLanguages and @SarahBenor! Happy to be a sponsor for this event series, which you should check out at the link below or at jewishlanguages.org...
We had such a fun conversation about the linguistics of matchmaking on Sunday! Thank you @EstherK of @TheBagelReport, Dr. @SarahBenor @HUCJIR, @AleezaBenShalom of "Jewish Matchmaking" @netflix, & Leah Gottfried of "Soon By You." Here's the video:
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Jewish Language Project retweeted
A little less than 2 weeks left to #apply for our #OSRJL classes which begin in Michaelmas Term, including #Haketia, #BaghdadiJudeoArabic, #ClassicalJudeoArabic, #JudeoHamadani, #JudeoItalian, #JudeoMoroccan, #JudeoNeoAramaic, #JudeoPersian, #Ladino, #OldYiddish & #Yiddish! 1/2
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Another installment of the Jewish Language on TV Summer Event Series, from @JewishLanguages, happening this Sunday, August 20 @ 1pm ET. Pleased to be cosponsoring this fun event! Register at the link: jewishlanguages.org/events
Depictions of Jewish dating have come a long way since the "Fiddler" cast first crooned "Matchmaker, Matchmaker." Join us this Sun. 8/20 to hear from the #JewishMatchmaking @netflix star, @AleezaBenShalom, alongside Leah Gottfried @SoonByYou. RSVP: jewishlanguages.org/events
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Excited to be a cosponsor of this fun series from @JewishLanguages! For more details and to register visit: jewishlanguages.org/events
🗓️📣 Just 4 days until our "Jewish Language on TV" series tunes its antennae to Hulu's #MelBrooks show, "History of the World Part II"! Join us on 8/13 for a fascinating look at #Yiddish & language mixing in American #comedy. Virtual📺Free📺RSVP: jewishlanguages.org/events
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Happy #InternationalCatDay featuring “A mayse mit a ketsl (A Story with a Cat),” written by Samuil Iakovlevich Marshak and published in Odessa by the Kinder-Farlag (The Children’s Publishing House) in 1935. Read it here: yiddishbookcenter.org/collec…
ALT The cover of "A mayse mit a ketsl (A Story with a Cat)"
ALT Illustration of a young girl holding a cat
ALT Illustration of a young girl tucking a cat into a small bed.
Jewish Language Project retweeted
August is Women in Translation Month. Explore resources on Yiddish women in translation at NYPL! nypl.org/blog/2020/08/17/oth…
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Medieval Judaeo-Arabic manuscript recording how to say "OMG" in fifteen languages.
If you happen to know Samaritan, Nubian, Rusian, {A}rmenian, Oghuz, Coptic, or any of the half dozen mystery languages here, please advise!
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ALT Photos of recto and verso of a small medieval manuscript in Hebrew and Arabic script, alongside tentative transcription & translations: אלה שמיה תרגמיה God of heaven (in) Targumic שמח שמח באלסימריה ŠMḤ ŠMḤ in Samaritan נגש נגש באלחתיה(?) NGŠ NGŠ in Hittite(???) סלו סלו באלנוביה SLW SLW in Nubian תחה תחה באלכאשכיה(?) TḤH TḤH in Kāskian(?) יא בר בר באלרוסיה O BR BR in Russian יא זגזגה סוראניה O ZGZGH (in) Syriac(?) יא קרס קרס באלסרצטיה(?) O QRS QRS in SRṢṬian יא קטפז באלרמנייה(?) O QṬFZ in {A}rmenian(?) יֵאמִנתִיָיו(?) אפרנגיה O Mintiyaw (in) Frankish יאגמתו(?) באלגזיה O GMTW in Ghuzz(?) יא שפנותה באלקבטיה O S(h)ephnute in Coptic יא כדי כדי באלעגמיה O Khudī Khudī in Persian יא חס חס באלרומיה(?) O ḤS ḤS in Roman (Greek?) יא רב . . . . . אלשמא באלערביה O Lord of heaven in Arabic بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم عونك يا رب بالله ربكما عوجا على سكني وعاتبماه(!)
Jewish Language Project retweeted
This week’s Refran Rundown (#Ladino proverb breakdown): do you chat like a duck? 🦆😉
Jewish Language Project retweeted
Most longstanding Diaspora Jewish languages are currently endangered. With the support of a grant from @Wikimedia, @JewishLanguages will create new video content in six critically endangered Jewish languages and dialects.
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Prayers for Rosh Ḥodesh Tammuz opensiddur.org/shared/prayer…
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Tonight at nightfall, the #Jewish month of Tammuz begins. According to the kabbalistic work Sefer Yetzirah, this month is represented by sight. What is a sight you always love to see?
ALT Purple background sky with tree line and quote from the Sefaria Library: "God made the letter Chet rule over sight...and formed Cancer in the world, Tammuz in the year..." Sefer Yetzirah (Gra Version) 5:8
Jewish Language Project retweeted
In honor of Juneteenth, we would like to share our HUC Connect Racial Justice Playlist, which highlights the critical thinkers who have discussed Civil Society & (Re)Defining Allyship in our HUC Connect Webinars & College Commons Podcasts. huc.edu/huc-connect/racial-j…
Jewish Language Project retweeted
Here is another charter ('shetar') that evidences Jewish presence in medieval England. It's an acquittance by Gershom ha-Kohen of Lincoln dated 1236, with a seal attached to it. #HebrewProject #LetsGetDigital
#AngloJewishCharters #JewsEngland
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