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Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social · 1d

Go for chol hamoed. Then come back in a couple weeks for this! www.grolierclub.org/default.aspx...

Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social · 6d

One of my favorite stories from Project 5785. A sukkah on the pampa=vulnerability…+ resilience. forward.com/yiddish-worl...

‘A Sukkah on the Argentine grasslands’ (short story)

A farmer describes what Sukkos was like for his family when they immigrated from Russia and didn’t even have a house yet.

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Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social · 7d

Dos iz mir geven a mekhaye farn yontef.

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Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social · 8d

Please join me for a book event in your city or an online mini-course from anywhere!

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Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social · 9d

I’ve heard versions of the tale attributed to a few different figures, which makes sense. TY for sharing this one. A gut gebentsht yor!

Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social · 10d

Revisiting Project 5785 with a story for Yom Kippur. Kol Nidre can’t start without the rabbi—but where is he?
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‘The Rabbi Who Was Late to Kol Nidre’ (folktale)

The editor of the story took pains to minimize the conflict between child care and the dictates of Jewish law.

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Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social · 14d

I hope you connect with my excellent colleague Didem Uca!

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Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social · 18d

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Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social · 18d

Talking with Rachel Gordan about my new book and SO MUCH more was delightful: nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

When dissertations do not become tenure books & research becomes NYT Op-eds with Miriam Udel

We’re talking with Emory Professor Miriam Udel about lessons from a career full of writing highs and challenges, beginning with the realization that the dissertation will not become the first book. We...

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Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social · 19d

In case you missed my Project 5785, the holidays are coming back round on the guitar, starting with Rosh Hashana: forward.com/yiddish-worl...

‘A Sweet Year’ (A Rosh Hashanah story)

Sign up for the Yiddish Brief, a bissel of all things Yiddish, brought to you weekly by our Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter.Translated by Miriam Udel. Read the original Yiddish version. Way high up a...

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Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social · 19d

Offered in a similar spirit: forward.com/yiddish-worl...

‘A Sweet Year’ (A Rosh Hashanah story)

Sign up for the Yiddish Brief, a bissel of all things Yiddish, brought to you weekly by our Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter.Translated by Miriam Udel. Read the original Yiddish version. Way high up a...

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Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social · Sep 8

Such a banger.

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Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social · Aug 28

No, I meant Ch 8 of this: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature

How modern Yiddish children’s literature gave expression to emerging forms of Jewish identity

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Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social · Aug 28

Der shenster nomen? Yer gonna love my Ch. 8.

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Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social · Aug 21

I’m contemplating trying to Mike Mulligan the whole ChatGPT sitch by inviting my 1st years to show in class what they can do w it in relation to a specific text & then hopefully showing we can do better/subtler w close reading & human literary analysis. Am I delulu?

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Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social · Aug 18

Sentences like that plunge me into an untranslatable anomie.

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Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social · Jul 17

First known order! I hope you have it in time to savor in your sukkah, Haim.

Haim Gottschalk @hgot.bsky.social · Jul 17

... and just ordered!! Looking forward to your new publication. Yashar koach.

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Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social · Jul 17

Are you perchance reading Moyshe Shifris’s story about the alef-beyz attacking poor Mikhele?

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Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social · Jul 17

“Yiddish children’s literature seems fun, but why does it actually matter?” Now there’s a book you can pre-order to find out: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... @princetonupress.bsky.social

Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature

How modern Yiddish children’s literature gave expression to emerging forms of Jewish identity

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Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social · Jul 11

If I “heart” this, does it convey that “I too am appalled”?

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Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social · Jun 16

Yes, I caught up on shabes and was just not expecting the emotional wallop. Yoo-hoo, indeed, is anyone?

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Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social · Jun 16

Emotionally ambushed by reading @emilynussbaum.bsky.social’s profile of Gertrude Berg In These Times. The Labzik stories’ materfamilias is also a Molly, and illustrator Lou Bunin also lost his career due to McCarthyism.

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Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social · May 29

@rcolesworthy.bsky.social can hopefully confirm we are still on for publication of the full translation August 2026 or thereabouts!

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Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social · May 19

Hard to imagine a lovelier shelfie. I’m not quite rubbing shoulders with Glikl, but we’re def in whispering distance in the ezras noshim.

Miriam Anzovin @miriamanzovin.bsky.social · May 19

I wanted you to see where the ducks live now, @carynrose.bsky.social!

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Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social · May 16

That is a real dream collaboration right there. I’m excited to say I snuck a mention of CLAP HANDS! Into my forthcoming book on Yiddish children’s lit and Jewish worldmaking.

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