Miriam Udel
@miriamudel.bsky.social
Studying how Jews meet modernity. MODERN JEWISH WORLDMAKING(@PrincetonUPress), HONEY ON THE PAGE (@NYUPress). Dir @TIJSatEmory @yeshivatmaharat
To understand the relationship between past and present in Jewish culture, look to the Passover seder and its story-logic. #sparklingsentences @princetonupress.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
To understand the relationship between past and present in Jewish culture, look to the Passover seder and its story-logic. #sparklingsentences @princetonupress.bsky.social
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Kirkus Reviews calls @miriamudel.bsky.social's new book Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature "a foundational work that deserves a wide readership." Read the full review here:
MODERN JEWISH WORLDMAKING THROUGH YIDDISH CH… | Kirkus Reviews
Udel, an associate professor of Yiddish language, literature, and culture at Emory University, chronicles the ways in which classical Yiddish-language storytelling spread Jewish cultural ideas around…
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November 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Kirkus Reviews calls @miriamudel.bsky.social's new book Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature "a foundational work that deserves a wide readership." Read the full review here:
Kirkus’s verdict is GET IT. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... @princetonupress.bsky.social
MODERN JEWISH WORLDMAKING THROUGH YIDDISH CH… | Kirkus Reviews
Udel, an associate professor of Yiddish language, literature, and culture at Emory University, chronicles the ways in which classical Yiddish-language storytelling spread Jewish cultural ideas around ...
www.kirkusreviews.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Kirkus’s verdict is GET IT. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... @princetonupress.bsky.social
Windows, mirrors, and the cultivation of empathy through children’s literature. #sparklingsentences @princetonupress.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Windows, mirrors, and the cultivation of empathy through children’s literature. #sparklingsentences @princetonupress.bsky.social
As I argue in Ch. 6 of my new book, one of the more strenuous acts of worldmaking undertaken in Yiddish children’s literature was to imagine a world in which it was safe for girls (including adolescents) to wander and adventure. Century-old fiction offers what the real world still can’t.
Anybody else had on their bingo card Batya Ungar-Sargon as helping MAGA classify 15-year-olds as not children to claim that pedophilia isn’t really pedophilia? I’m not surprised. Congrats to the 92nd St Y for including her on a panel the other week!
November 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
As I argue in Ch. 6 of my new book, one of the more strenuous acts of worldmaking undertaken in Yiddish children’s literature was to imagine a world in which it was safe for girls (including adolescents) to wander and adventure. Century-old fiction offers what the real world still can’t.
Tonight in ATL! www.shearithisrael.com/event/modern... @princetonupress.bsky.social @emorycollege.bsky.social
Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature: Miriam Udel & Marshall Duke in Conversation - Event - Congregation Shearith Israel
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November 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Another glimpse of my heart on the page: writing about generation gaps. #sparklingsentences
November 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Another glimpse of my heart on the page: writing about generation gaps. #sparklingsentences
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Tomorrow, Nov 6 at 7 pm EST see @miriamudel.bsky.social at Temple Israel of Boston to discuss her book, Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature, and how Yiddish children’s literature gave expression to emerging forms of Jewish identity
Join this hybrid event: buff.ly/4Wlq1Vh
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November 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Tomorrow, Nov 6 at 7 pm EST see @miriamudel.bsky.social at Temple Israel of Boston to discuss her book, Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature, and how Yiddish children’s literature gave expression to emerging forms of Jewish identity
Join this hybrid event: buff.ly/4Wlq1Vh
Join this hybrid event: buff.ly/4Wlq1Vh
Seems like a fitting day to post one of my #sparklingsentences, about how starting a century ago, Yiddish children’s authors imagined new possibilities for girls and girlhood.
November 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Seems like a fitting day to post one of my #sparklingsentences, about how starting a century ago, Yiddish children’s authors imagined new possibilities for girls and girlhood.
I read Sholem Aleichem and Isaac Bashevis Singer verrrry closely to find out what Yiddish boys were made of a century ago. #sparklingsentences @princetonupress.bsky.social @emorycollege.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I read Sholem Aleichem and Isaac Bashevis Singer verrrry closely to find out what Yiddish boys were made of a century ago. #sparklingsentences @princetonupress.bsky.social @emorycollege.bsky.social
Join me in Boston or online next Thursday!
Next week—Nov 6 at 7 pm EST—see @miriamudel.bsky.social at Temple Israel of Boston to discuss her book, Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature, and how Yiddish children’s literature gave expression to emerging forms of Jewish identity
Join this hybrid event: buff.ly/4Wlq1Vh
Join this hybrid event: buff.ly/4Wlq1Vh
October 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Join me in Boston or online next Thursday!
What did the concept of Shabbos, the Sabbath, mean to Jewish socialists? One of them anticipated Abraham Joshua Heschel’s “palace in time” metaphor by decades. Shabbos was a cultural patrimony and a technology for “rest as resistance,” as I explain in today’s “sparkling sentence.” @princetonupress
October 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
What did the concept of Shabbos, the Sabbath, mean to Jewish socialists? One of them anticipated Abraham Joshua Heschel’s “palace in time” metaphor by decades. Shabbos was a cultural patrimony and a technology for “rest as resistance,” as I explain in today’s “sparkling sentence.” @princetonupress
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Had my own little "lunch and learn" today and attended the amazing discussion on @miriamudel.bsky.social 's new book on Yiddish #kidlit with Miriam and @marjorieingall.bsky.social hosted by the YIVO institute. Thank you so much for an inspirational and delightful hour!
October 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Had my own little "lunch and learn" today and attended the amazing discussion on @miriamudel.bsky.social 's new book on Yiddish #kidlit with Miriam and @marjorieingall.bsky.social hosted by the YIVO institute. Thank you so much for an inspirational and delightful hour!
See you in about 90 minutes?
October 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
See you in about 90 minutes?
¡Mañanita! מארגן!
Tomorrow (Oct 27) at 12:00 pm EDT, please join the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in welcoming @miriamudel.bsky.social for a discussion of her book, Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature, with Marjorie Ingall.
Register for this free, virtual event here: buff.ly/WlSb9qx
Register for this free, virtual event here: buff.ly/WlSb9qx
October 27, 2025 at 1:54 AM
¡Mañanita! מארגן!
Children’s reading was food for their minds. In today’s “sparkling sentence,” I elaborate the specifically Jewish form of the widespread alimentary metaphor in discussing literature for children. @princetonupress @emoryjewishstudies @emorygermanstudies
October 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Children’s reading was food for their minds. In today’s “sparkling sentence,” I elaborate the specifically Jewish form of the widespread alimentary metaphor in discussing literature for children. @princetonupress @emoryjewishstudies @emorygermanstudies
Know who appreciated this “sparkling sentence”? @marjorieingall.bsky.social Join us in virtual conversation Oct 27 at YIVO. Link in comments.
October 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Know who appreciated this “sparkling sentence”? @marjorieingall.bsky.social Join us in virtual conversation Oct 27 at YIVO. Link in comments.
Join @marjorieingall.bsky.social and me from anywhere!
Next week, Oct 27 at 12:00 pm EDT, please join the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in welcoming @miriamudel.bsky.social for a discussion of her book, Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature, with Marjorie Ingall.
Register for this free, virtual event here: buff.ly/WlSb9qx
Register for this free, virtual event here: buff.ly/WlSb9qx
October 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Join @marjorieingall.bsky.social and me from anywhere!
Time to talk to the young people in your life about current events? Striking is for the birds! muse.jhu.edu/pub/193/edit...
October 20, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Time to talk to the young people in your life about current events? Striking is for the birds! muse.jhu.edu/pub/193/edit...
ATL launch this Sunday!
October 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
ATL launch this Sunday!
Double-shiny thing in NYC: view the exhibit while attending my NYC book launch next Thursday! www.grolierclub.org/default.aspx...
October 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Double-shiny thing in NYC: view the exhibit while attending my NYC book launch next Thursday! www.grolierclub.org/default.aspx...
Today’s #sparklingsentence, from the preface. @princetonupress.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Today’s #sparklingsentence, from the preface. @princetonupress.bsky.social
Reposted by Miriam Udel
" @miriamudel.bsky.social's abundant gifts as an author, her exhaustive research, and elegant writing elevate her book above its subject matter.” Read the full review of Modern Jewish Worldmaking for @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social here: www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/modern-...
Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature
Children’s literature is never a peripheral segment of culture.
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October 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
" @miriamudel.bsky.social's abundant gifts as an author, her exhaustive research, and elegant writing elevate her book above its subject matter.” Read the full review of Modern Jewish Worldmaking for @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social here: www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/modern-...
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How modern Yiddish children’s literature gave expression to emerging forms of Jewish identity.
Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature by @miriamudel.bsky.social is out now in North America (9 Dec UK pub).
Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature by @miriamudel.bsky.social is out now in North America (9 Dec UK pub).
Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
October 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
…wherever books are sold (or borrowed!)….