Sam Spinner
@samspinner.bsky.social
Yiddish, German, literature, art, monuments, museums.
My book about 4 of the above: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33157
Associate Professor @ Johns Hopkins.
My book about 4 of the above: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33157
Associate Professor @ Johns Hopkins.
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Sam Spinner
@samspinner.bsky.social
· Nov 21
We are thrilled to announce a call for our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue edited by @samspinner.bsky.social
Please circulate widely. We are open to work that engages with Jewish literature, culture, and thought in any language.
@hopkinspress.bsky.social
Please circulate widely. We are open to work that engages with Jewish literature, culture, and thought in any language.
@hopkinspress.bsky.social
After 140 years, MLN will have a regular issue devoted to Yiddish, Hebrew, and other Jewish languages. I don’t know about you, but I’m excited!
Please help us get the word out and please send me your work.
Please help us get the word out and please send me your work.
Apparently the answer to more artificial intelligence is less natural intelligence.
February 4, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Apparently the answer to more artificial intelligence is less natural intelligence.
Reposted by Sam Spinner
Looking forward to tomorrow's 'Come Fill Your Dance Fill Your Dance Card'.
Hosted by @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social, @uclhjs.bsky.social and the IJS.
We're all booked up, but you can sign up for the waitlist (or let us know if you'd like a similar future event).
www.tickettailor.com/events/uclin....
Hosted by @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social, @uclhjs.bsky.social and the IJS.
We're all booked up, but you can sign up for the waitlist (or let us know if you'd like a similar future event).
www.tickettailor.com/events/uclin....
February 4, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Looking forward to tomorrow's 'Come Fill Your Dance Fill Your Dance Card'.
Hosted by @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social, @uclhjs.bsky.social and the IJS.
We're all booked up, but you can sign up for the waitlist (or let us know if you'd like a similar future event).
www.tickettailor.com/events/uclin....
Hosted by @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social, @uclhjs.bsky.social and the IJS.
We're all booked up, but you can sign up for the waitlist (or let us know if you'd like a similar future event).
www.tickettailor.com/events/uclin....
Campus map now with interactive live weather updates!
January 29, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Campus map now with interactive live weather updates!
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Yiddish was spoken by 5 million of the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. Yiddish is an absolutely crucial language for Holocaust research.
This Holocaust Memorial Day, you can support Yiddish at universities facing cuts to the Humanities, including UCL.
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This Holocaust Memorial Day, you can support Yiddish at universities facing cuts to the Humanities, including UCL.
🧵 1/4
January 27, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Yiddish was spoken by 5 million of the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. Yiddish is an absolutely crucial language for Holocaust research.
This Holocaust Memorial Day, you can support Yiddish at universities facing cuts to the Humanities, including UCL.
🧵 1/4
This Holocaust Memorial Day, you can support Yiddish at universities facing cuts to the Humanities, including UCL.
🧵 1/4
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After 140 years, MLN will have a regular issue devoted to Yiddish, Hebrew, and other Jewish languages. I don’t know about you, but I’m excited!
Please help us get the word out and please send me your work.
Please help us get the word out and please send me your work.
We are thrilled to announce a call for our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue edited by @samspinner.bsky.social
Please circulate widely. We are open to work that engages with Jewish literature, culture, and thought in any language.
@hopkinspress.bsky.social
Please circulate widely. We are open to work that engages with Jewish literature, culture, and thought in any language.
@hopkinspress.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
After 140 years, MLN will have a regular issue devoted to Yiddish, Hebrew, and other Jewish languages. I don’t know about you, but I’m excited!
Please help us get the word out and please send me your work.
Please help us get the word out and please send me your work.
I like how AI is totally ambivalent about being right. Here we go from the right answer directly to spectacularly wrong answers.
January 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I like how AI is totally ambivalent about being right. Here we go from the right answer directly to spectacularly wrong answers.
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Do you teach/research gender/sexuality w/ German sources? Have you had access issues or needed to translate sources yourself bc English versions don’t exist? Fill in this survey (by 2/15) to identify core texts for an anthology of translations in scientific & literary sexology between 1890 & 1930.
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January 13, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Do you teach/research gender/sexuality w/ German sources? Have you had access issues or needed to translate sources yourself bc English versions don’t exist? Fill in this survey (by 2/15) to identify core texts for an anthology of translations in scientific & literary sexology between 1890 & 1930.
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Merry Christmas! Roland Clark's incisive interview of my new book juts dropped. Perfect listening fodder for your digestive run, neat 32 min: newbooksnetwork.com/people-witho...
Anna Hájková, "People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust" (U Toronto Press, 2025) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Merry Christmas! Roland Clark's incisive interview of my new book juts dropped. Perfect listening fodder for your digestive run, neat 32 min: newbooksnetwork.com/people-witho...
“Hey Siri, play Yiddish Chaukah carols.”
And then—a great miracle happened:
music.apple.com/us/album/yid...
And then—a great miracle happened:
music.apple.com/us/album/yid...
Yiddish Chanukah Carols by Yossi Desser on Apple Music
Album · 2021 · 12 Songs
music.apple.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
“Hey Siri, play Yiddish Chaukah carols.”
And then—a great miracle happened:
music.apple.com/us/album/yid...
And then—a great miracle happened:
music.apple.com/us/album/yid...
It'll be the second year in a row my talk at the @jewishstudies.bsky.social annual conference will be about a writer with fancy rabbinic pedigree. One more time and I'll have to talk about rebbishe eyneklekh forever.
December 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
It'll be the second year in a row my talk at the @jewishstudies.bsky.social annual conference will be about a writer with fancy rabbinic pedigree. One more time and I'll have to talk about rebbishe eyneklekh forever.
Just saw Sault Ste. Marie written in Yiddish for the first time. An adventure, but not as exciting as Buenos Aires.
December 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Just saw Sault Ste. Marie written in Yiddish for the first time. An adventure, but not as exciting as Buenos Aires.
They’re now writing biographies of authors I’ve never heard of.
December 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
They’re now writing biographies of authors I’ve never heard of.
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📣 The Big Give is now live!
This week all donations to support our work made through the Big Give will be matched, meaning they have double the impact on our work.
You have until Tuesday 9 December to help us raise £64,000 as part of this important campaign.
Donate now:
This week all donations to support our work made through the Big Give will be matched, meaning they have double the impact on our work.
You have until Tuesday 9 December to help us raise £64,000 as part of this important campaign.
Donate now:
Support our vital work in these challenging times – Big Give
We are the world’s oldest and the UK’s largest archive on the Nazi era and the Holocaust. Please help us raise £64,000 so we can continue to be a freely accessible tool to combat Holocaust denial,…
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December 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
📣 The Big Give is now live!
This week all donations to support our work made through the Big Give will be matched, meaning they have double the impact on our work.
You have until Tuesday 9 December to help us raise £64,000 as part of this important campaign.
Donate now:
This week all donations to support our work made through the Big Give will be matched, meaning they have double the impact on our work.
You have until Tuesday 9 December to help us raise £64,000 as part of this important campaign.
Donate now:
The candidates for @modernlanguage.bsky.social delegate representing Less Commonly Taught Language Programs are professors of... Italian and Portuguese. 😵💫
November 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The candidates for @modernlanguage.bsky.social delegate representing Less Commonly Taught Language Programs are professors of... Italian and Portuguese. 😵💫
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Want to get a PhD in Yiddish or Hebrew? Or Yiddish AND Hebrew? We are accepting applications for the PhD in Jewish Languages & Literatures! Please help me get the word out!
@jhuartssciences.bsky.social
@jhuartssciences.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Want to get a PhD in Yiddish or Hebrew? Or Yiddish AND Hebrew? We are accepting applications for the PhD in Jewish Languages & Literatures! Please help me get the word out!
@jhuartssciences.bsky.social
@jhuartssciences.bsky.social
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New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
newsletter.dancohen.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
Want to get a PhD in Yiddish or Hebrew? Or Yiddish AND Hebrew? We are accepting applications for the PhD in Jewish Languages & Literatures! Please help me get the word out!
@jhuartssciences.bsky.social
@jhuartssciences.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Want to get a PhD in Yiddish or Hebrew? Or Yiddish AND Hebrew? We are accepting applications for the PhD in Jewish Languages & Literatures! Please help me get the word out!
@jhuartssciences.bsky.social
@jhuartssciences.bsky.social
Moderately versatile.
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Moderately versatile.
My 6th grader needed someone to peer-review her writing homework. I agreed to do it, but first sat her down and explained Reviewer #1 and Reviewer #2.
November 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
My 6th grader needed someone to peer-review her writing homework. I agreed to do it, but first sat her down and explained Reviewer #1 and Reviewer #2.
After 140 years, MLN will have a regular issue devoted to Yiddish, Hebrew, and other Jewish languages. I don’t know about you, but I’m excited!
Please help us get the word out and please send me your work.
Please help us get the word out and please send me your work.
We are thrilled to announce a call for our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue edited by @samspinner.bsky.social
Please circulate widely. We are open to work that engages with Jewish literature, culture, and thought in any language.
@hopkinspress.bsky.social
Please circulate widely. We are open to work that engages with Jewish literature, culture, and thought in any language.
@hopkinspress.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
After 140 years, MLN will have a regular issue devoted to Yiddish, Hebrew, and other Jewish languages. I don’t know about you, but I’m excited!
Please help us get the word out and please send me your work.
Please help us get the word out and please send me your work.
Apparently the constitution was written by a group known as the “Framers.”
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Apparently the constitution was written by a group known as the “Framers.”
Self-driving books will be the end of higher education.
November 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Self-driving books will be the end of higher education.
But can robotaxis write books?
November 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
But can robotaxis write books?