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@josie.zone
NYT-bestselling, Hugo-finalist authoress of RINGMASTER and TRUE BELIEVER. Upcoming: HOLLYWOOD FREAKS. Judeo-Tranarchist exile. She/her. Married to @sirosenbaum.bsky.social. Avatar by Leela Corman. https://neokayfabe.com/ מִדְּבַר־שֶׁ֖קֶר תִּרְחָ֑ק
@boellus.bsky.social
Washington, DC office of @boell.de. We promote democracy, human rights, gender equality, and climate action through international dialogue and exchange. us.boell.org
@adamlanger.bsky.social
Author. Journalist. Editor. American but considering alternatives.
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@self.agency
fmr. publisher of jewish worker, jewschool, & orthodox anarchist. ex-tech lead at nylon mag, jta news, & repair the world. led kol nidre at occupy wall street. aft & iww. never again to anyone. syracuse, ny. 🔗 https://self.agency
@sharonbrous.bsky.social
Senior Rabbi and Founder, IKAR. Author of The Amen Effect. Acct managed by weareikar.
@weareikar.bsky.social
Community of inspiration & experimentation dedicated to reinvigorating Jewish life through piety, hutzpah, tradition, imagination, activism, & spirit.
@afalkhatib.bsky.social
Proud American From Gaza Pro-Palestine ✊ Pro-Peace ☮️ Anti-Hamas 🚫 Anti-occupation ✌️ Lost 31 family members in the war 💔
@newjewishnarrative.bsky.social
Built on the proud legacies of Americans for Peace Now and Ameinu, we have come together and are writing a new narrative for a new day. https://www.newjewishnarrative.org/
@mjhetfield.bsky.social
President of HIAS, the Jewish community’s international agency standing with forcibly displaced persons, and the oldest refugee organization in the world.
@meghanncuniff.bsky.social
Legal affairs journalist in Southern California. Follow my work by subscribing to Legal Affairs and Trials. https://www.legalaffairsandtrials.com/subscribe
@dirozevepave.bsky.social
אַ קווירער, יידישער, אַנטיציאָניסטער, בחנימדיקע־עסן קאַפֿע & קהילה אָרט אַ מאָל אין גלאַזויי, שאָטלאַנד קומט אין ברוקלין, נ“י a queer, yiddish, antizionist, free food café & community space formerly in glasgow, scotland coming soon to brooklyn, ny pinkpeacock.gay
@divyamele.bsky.social
Comics, poetry, folk art, Yiddish, storytelling, and the ancient lyre.
@bachwards.bsky.social
Archive haunter (where history of technology + Yiddish meet); theatre/-er-maker; rogue illustrator. Current PhD candidate in MIT's Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS). she/her
@drberger.bsky.social
Doctor, researcher, poet, translator. #AbolishICE #BlackLivesMatter prons: he él ער הוא 他 https://linktr.ee/zackarysholemberger
@samspinner.bsky.social
Yiddish, German, literature, art, monuments, museums. My book about 4 of the above: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33157 Assistant Professor @ Johns Hopkins.
@acklotz.bsky.social
Historian, Postdoc & Lecturer of the Holocaust, Yiddish, East European & Jewish history @HebrewUniversity. Author of „United against Germany“. Finalist Yad Vashem Book Prize ‘23. Feminist, Firstgen, Zonenkind. 👩🏻🎓💄🌹 📍JLM/BLN
@mordkhetzvi.bsky.social
the other day your bubbe was kibitzing about some black guy who sings in yiddish. it's still me. he/him - half of yiddish songwriting duo Tsvey Brider - Mandel Institute Cultural Leadership Fellow 2023-25 - afrojudeopessoptimist anthonyrussellbass.com
@pymundgenealogy.com
🌳📜 Genealogy (mine, or whoever's) with a heaping dose of parentheses. My affiliations and views are an exercise to the reader. 📍 Hamilton, ON (#HamOnt), Canada 🔗: pymundgenealogy.com
@theschach.bsky.social
Modern Jewish lit, Yiddish translation, women in the arts, author of Diasporic Modernisms and Women Writing Jewish Modernity.
@jyoungb.bsky.social
History/museum/education. Writing a book about radical housewives. Yiddish cultural worker. PDA Parent. Unapologetically bad knitter. Western MA but recovering Canadian and New Yorker.
@zanykirz.bsky.social
Yiddish Studies scholar & translator & language instructor & editor
@joelberkowitz.bsky.social
Full-time dual-authenticator. "A sorta big name for Wisconsin Jews" - my son Reuben.
@annsplaining.bsky.social
Historian researching communism and anti-fascism in the 1930s and 40s, Spanish Civil War and (l'havdil) Jewish women whose job was to talk to the dead. www.pullingatthreads.com. Yiddish teacher and translator. She/her. Live in 🥐, come from 💂, part-time 🗽
@tromyam.bsky.social
NYC trumpeter. Lover of all things Yiddish,Klezmer,Pops, Pres,Sweets,Bean,Diz,Roy,Dexter and Moishe Oysher. Trumpet 1 at Fiddler in Yiddish. AFofM, Local 802
@spinsker.bsky.social
Professor of Middle East Studies and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Writer, Editor, Translator.
@ssidky.bsky.social
Teaching & writing about American Judaism, Holocaust lit., Yiddish, & Pedagogy | He/him/his
@bluma.bsky.social
Werewolf advocate, Golem appreciator. Writes a little about H. Leivick on https://blumalangerobertson.substack.com/
@sophielizbear.bsky.social
Sophia. Dissertating at JHU, writing about modern Yiddish literature and print culture. she/her.
@farbindungen.bsky.social
An annual Yiddish studies conference for graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and early career professionals. www.farbindungen.com Register for #Farbindungen25: https://bit.ly/registerfarbindungen25
@evejochnowitz.bsky.social
Yiddish, culinary ethnography, cookbooks, Yiddish cookbooks, cycling, dance, delicious food
@miriamudel.bsky.social
Studying how Jews meet modernity. MODERN JEWISH WORLDMAKING(@PrincetonUPress), HONEY ON THE PAGE (@NYUPress). Dir @TIJSatEmory @yeshivatmaharat
@sgollance.bsky.social
Associate Prof. of Yiddish at UCL Hebrew and 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
@joshuaraclaw.com
sociocultural linguist working in trans and queer linguistics and conversation analysis. posts about yiddish, cooking, adhd, cats, professor stuff. (they/זײ) [ˈɹæ.klɔ] מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן
@mollycrabapple.bsky.social
Draws and writes and gets in fights Mollycrabapple.com Mollycrabapple.substack.com
@sarahbiskowitz.bsky.social
Yiddishist. Feminist. Jewish cultural activist & educator. She/her. Manager of the Rising Voices Fellowship at the Jewish Women's Archive. Yiddish teacher at the Boston Workers Circle. Views expressed here are my own.
@keene.la
Covering the Jewish world for forward.bsky.social | sometimes write about sports | Talk to me: keene at forward punto com
@dhw28.bsky.social
I’m a prof of religion, journalism and Comm at USC. Recent book on how news media mainstreamed Reagan’s evangelical vision, normalizing neoliberalism and eventually Christian nationalism. I’m a NewYorker by birth and disposition who loves living in LA.
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