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
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Women Wrote: Glikl in Context | In geveb
Placing Glikl's writing alongside writings by other contemporary women in central Europe reveals what characterized their shared literary and cultural context.
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Hi folks, let's see if anyone is here! Glikl was NOT the only pre-modern Jewish woman who wrote -- check it out! ingeveb.org/articles/wom... #women in #earlymodern #Jewish #History in #Yiddish in
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Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Hey there #JewishLife on #HigherEd campus folks. IMHO, Jewish communities need to support Jewish life at public institutions of higher education. Hillel at @umassamherst.bsky.social is stellar. Give 2day & if they reach 150 donors, there's a bonus. All gifts matched to 20k.
bit.ly/umassgt
bit.ly/umassgt
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Hey there #JewishLife on #HigherEd campus folks. IMHO, Jewish communities need to support Jewish life at public institutions of higher education. Hillel at @umassamherst.bsky.social is stellar. Give 2day & if they reach 150 donors, there's a bonus. All gifts matched to 20k.
bit.ly/umassgt
bit.ly/umassgt
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Public land grant universities with a mission to serve the residents of their respective states are the great economic equalizers. So of course Republicans and billionaires want to destroy them. 😖
November 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Public land grant universities with a mission to serve the residents of their respective states are the great economic equalizers. So of course Republicans and billionaires want to destroy them. 😖
You Səgd (ስግድ) reading for this year. You're welcome ; - ). And all the real thanks to the remarkable Shula Mola.
The Sound of Səgd (ስግድ): Reclaiming Language, Memory, and Belonging
When I arrived in Israel from Ethiopia as a little girl, I learned quickly that language can build a home and it can unmake one.
www.jewishbookcouncil.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
You Səgd (ስግድ) reading for this year. You're welcome ; - ). And all the real thanks to the remarkable Shula Mola.
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Proud of this City/community partnership tackling hunger & waste—1.5 million meals over the last year from fresh, healthy food that otherwise would’ve ended up in landfills
Mayor Michelle Wu visited the Greater Boston Collaborative Food Access Hub today for a one-year progress update on the facility’s work.
Boston Mayor Wu Visits The Greater Boston Collaborative Food Access Hub | WBZ NewsRadio 1030
Mayor Michelle Wu visited the Greater Boston Collaborative Food Access Hub today for a one-year progress update on the facility’s work.
wbznewsradio.iheart.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Proud of this City/community partnership tackling hunger & waste—1.5 million meals over the last year from fresh, healthy food that otherwise would’ve ended up in landfills
Just remembering how much I love this parokhet (curtain for the ark holding the Torah scrolls) and its story of female agency and spirituality. And #memory. #JewishHistory #earlymodern #JewishHistory #HerStory #MaterialCulture sharedhistoryproject.org/object/plohn...
November 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Just remembering how much I love this parokhet (curtain for the ark holding the Torah scrolls) and its story of female agency and spirituality. And #memory. #JewishHistory #earlymodern #JewishHistory #HerStory #MaterialCulture sharedhistoryproject.org/object/plohn...
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Today marks the 400th anniversary of the passing of Renaissance painter Sofonisba Anguissola. Read about the artist on the #ArtHerstory blog -
Sofonisba’s Impact
Guest post by Howard Burton, @ideasroadshow.bsky.social
artherstory.net/sofonisbas-i...
Sofonisba’s Impact
Guest post by Howard Burton, @ideasroadshow.bsky.social
artherstory.net/sofonisbas-i...
Sofonisba's Impact
Howard Burton discusses Renaissance Italian painter Sofonisba Anguissola's influence on other Italian women artists, including her sisters.
artherstory.net
November 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Today marks the 400th anniversary of the passing of Renaissance painter Sofonisba Anguissola. Read about the artist on the #ArtHerstory blog -
Sofonisba’s Impact
Guest post by Howard Burton, @ideasroadshow.bsky.social
artherstory.net/sofonisbas-i...
Sofonisba’s Impact
Guest post by Howard Burton, @ideasroadshow.bsky.social
artherstory.net/sofonisbas-i...
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If I were running in next year's midterms, I'd be saying: Aussies are getting free electricity, and we're getting huge price spikes.
Because they built solar, and Trump is blocking it.
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
Because they built solar, and Trump is blocking it.
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
Free Electricity. Like, at no cost. For everyone. Now.
Let's talk about affordability, abundance, and Australia--and why thanks to Trump we can't have nice things
open.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
If I were running in next year's midterms, I'd be saying: Aussies are getting free electricity, and we're getting huge price spikes.
Because they built solar, and Trump is blocking it.
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
Because they built solar, and Trump is blocking it.
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
On the inspiring work of Balazs Tamasi of Budapest in recovering the pre-World War II library of the Jewish Theological Seminary there. #BookHistory #Libraries #LootedBooks www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...
Rebuilding a Historic Jewish Library, Book by Book
www.nytimes.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
On the inspiring work of Balazs Tamasi of Budapest in recovering the pre-World War II library of the Jewish Theological Seminary there. #BookHistory #Libraries #LootedBooks www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...
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Now that terms and semesters are in full swing, giving this cfp a boost.
Speaking as one of the editors, we'd love to consider your work on the topic of "Early Modern Women and Migrancy." Our Forum feature is a great way to try out ideas in a shorter-length format.
#earlymodern
Speaking as one of the editors, we'd love to consider your work on the topic of "Early Modern Women and Migrancy." Our Forum feature is a great way to try out ideas in a shorter-length format.
#earlymodern
Here's our CFP for the Forum again, with ALT text
August 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Now that terms and semesters are in full swing, giving this cfp a boost.
Speaking as one of the editors, we'd love to consider your work on the topic of "Early Modern Women and Migrancy." Our Forum feature is a great way to try out ideas in a shorter-length format.
#earlymodern
Speaking as one of the editors, we'd love to consider your work on the topic of "Early Modern Women and Migrancy." Our Forum feature is a great way to try out ideas in a shorter-length format.
#earlymodern
#Metadata matters-deepening my discomfort w online catalogs: "Here lies the paradox of our moment: the same technological advances celebrated for their efficiency are erasing the human expertise that creates the high-quality metadata these systems depend on to function." #libraries #bookhistory 1/2
Guest Post — Beyond Classification: The Human Cost of Library and Information Labor Under Digital Capitalism scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/26/g...
Guest Post — Beyond Classification: The Human Cost of Library and Information Labor Under Digital Capitalism - The Scholarly Kitchen
In an era of information abundance and epistemic chaos, libraries serve as crucial sites for democratic knowledge practices -- protecting them is critical to preserving the infrastructure of informed ...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
September 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
#Metadata matters-deepening my discomfort w online catalogs: "Here lies the paradox of our moment: the same technological advances celebrated for their efficiency are erasing the human expertise that creates the high-quality metadata these systems depend on to function." #libraries #bookhistory 1/2
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“Chicago has long helped to keep alive tiny fields & esoteric areas of humanistic study... Without the univ’s support, & the continued training of grad students who can keep these bodies of kn going, entire spheres of human learning might eventually blink out.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
If the University of Chicago Won’t Defend the Humanities, Who Will?
Why it matters that the University of Chicago is pausing admissions to doctoral programs in literature, philosophy, the arts, and languages
www.theatlantic.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
“Chicago has long helped to keep alive tiny fields & esoteric areas of humanistic study... Without the univ’s support, & the continued training of grad students who can keep these bodies of kn going, entire spheres of human learning might eventually blink out.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
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Parents insist their kids go to college to get business degrees. Administrators respond by defunding the humanities and social sciences, while hiring business profs at ~2X what historians get paid. Meanwhile, businesses say over and over that they want to hire humanities and social science majors.
Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
July 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Parents insist their kids go to college to get business degrees. Administrators respond by defunding the humanities and social sciences, while hiring business profs at ~2X what historians get paid. Meanwhile, businesses say over and over that they want to hire humanities and social science majors.
amazing resource for #JewishLanguages (including #EarlyModern languages)
BTW there are SO MANY Jewish languages, people
here's a resource mapping about 33 of them, from Juhuri/Judeo-Tat to Haketia to Jewish Malayalam:
here's a resource mapping about 33 of them, from Juhuri/Judeo-Tat to Haketia to Jewish Malayalam:
Jewish Languages
An introduction to Jewish languages around the world, past and present, including longstanding ones, like Judeo-Arabic, Ladino, and Yiddish, and new ones like Jewish English and Jewish Russian.
www.jewishlanguages.org
July 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
amazing resource for #JewishLanguages (including #EarlyModern languages)
Is @tigers.bsky.social #baseball on bsky yet? LOVE this photo of Dietrich Enns & fam. #persistence ! #GoDownMoTown ! Souse & I had the joy of meeting wife & daughter at a #MudHens game in #Worcester earlier this year. So happy for all of them.
June 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Is @tigers.bsky.social #baseball on bsky yet? LOVE this photo of Dietrich Enns & fam. #persistence ! #GoDownMoTown ! Souse & I had the joy of meeting wife & daughter at a #MudHens game in #Worcester earlier this year. So happy for all of them.
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They're so cool
Looking forward to hearing more about the Library of Lost Books project #AJLCon25
June 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
They're so cool
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A riveting presentation on Fanny Goldstein by Richard Michelson
#AJLCon2025 @jewishlibraries.bsky.social
#AJLCon2025 @jewishlibraries.bsky.social
June 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
A riveting presentation on Fanny Goldstein by Richard Michelson
#AJLCon2025 @jewishlibraries.bsky.social
#AJLCon2025 @jewishlibraries.bsky.social
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#AJLCon25 is underway, with great title recommendations during "Kiki and Kvetch: Spilling the Tea on Queer Jewish Books for Teens and Adults."
June 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
#AJLCon25 is underway, with great title recommendations during "Kiki and Kvetch: Spilling the Tea on Queer Jewish Books for Teens and Adults."
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More about GLIKL: brandeisuniversitypress.com/title/glikl-...
June 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
More about GLIKL: brandeisuniversitypress.com/title/glikl-...
As the world burns, retreat into the past! Resposting this podcast on the inimitable #Glikl because #WomenWhoWrote entertain us, teach us, live in us. Check out Sara Friedman's translation based on Prof. Chava Turniansky's edition at @brandeispress.bsky.social #EarlyModern #JewishHistory
Glikl of Hameln (1647 – 1724) and her memoirs (with Dr. Rachel Greenblatt) – Seforimchatter PodcastApple PodcastsSpotify
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June 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
As the world burns, retreat into the past! Resposting this podcast on the inimitable #Glikl because #WomenWhoWrote entertain us, teach us, live in us. Check out Sara Friedman's translation based on Prof. Chava Turniansky's edition at @brandeispress.bsky.social #EarlyModern #JewishHistory
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#AJLCon25 is next week, with a packed schedule of educational, enriching, entertaining, and fun programming!
Don't miss out; visit jewishlibraries.org/2025-digital-conference for more information and to register.
Don't miss out; visit jewishlibraries.org/2025-digital-conference for more information and to register.
June 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
#AJLCon25 is next week, with a packed schedule of educational, enriching, entertaining, and fun programming!
Don't miss out; visit jewishlibraries.org/2025-digital-conference for more information and to register.
Don't miss out; visit jewishlibraries.org/2025-digital-conference for more information and to register.
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@hcrichardson.bsky.social
Lexington, MA today 🇺🇸
Lexington, MA today 🇺🇸
June 15, 2025 at 2:31 AM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
Lexington, MA today 🇺🇸
Lexington, MA today 🇺🇸
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In the middle of everything, I will not forget them.
#LetThemAllGoNow
#AllTogether
#UntilTheLastHostage
#BringThemHomeNow
#LetThemAllGoNow
#AllTogether
#UntilTheLastHostage
#BringThemHomeNow
June 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
In the middle of everything, I will not forget them.
#LetThemAllGoNow
#AllTogether
#UntilTheLastHostage
#BringThemHomeNow
#LetThemAllGoNow
#AllTogether
#UntilTheLastHostage
#BringThemHomeNow
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