Sonia Gollance
@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
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Can’t wait to get my copy of this new translation by Mikhl Yashinsky!
Mikhl is amazing. Find out more about his life and work with my conversation with him at
radiant-others-a.blubrry.net/mikhl-yashin...
Mikhl is amazing. Find out more about his life and work with my conversation with him at
radiant-others-a.blubrry.net/mikhl-yashin...
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Can’t wait to get my copy of this new translation by Mikhl Yashinsky!
Mikhl is amazing. Find out more about his life and work with my conversation with him at
radiant-others-a.blubrry.net/mikhl-yashin...
Mikhl is amazing. Find out more about his life and work with my conversation with him at
radiant-others-a.blubrry.net/mikhl-yashin...
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#Chancen | The Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program, College of Charleston invites applications for the Arnold Family Postdoctoral Fellowship in Jewish and Israel Studies beginning in Fall 2026 | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...
#fellowship
Deadline for applications: January 1, 2026
#fellowship
Deadline for applications: January 1, 2026
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
#Chancen | The Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program, College of Charleston invites applications for the Arnold Family Postdoctoral Fellowship in Jewish and Israel Studies beginning in Fall 2026 | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...
#fellowship
Deadline for applications: January 1, 2026
#fellowship
Deadline for applications: January 1, 2026
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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 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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
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This week's #NewBooks including the Yiddish Sherlock Holmes library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
November 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
This week's #NewBooks including the Yiddish Sherlock Holmes library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
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Join us to celebrate tsen yor in D.C.! We are celebrating our 10th birthday with a party moytse Shabes (Saturday evening) before the Association for Jewish Studies conference in Washington, DC on December 13th, 2026.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Join us to celebrate tsen yor in D.C.! We are celebrating our 10th birthday with a party moytse Shabes (Saturday evening) before the Association for Jewish Studies conference in Washington, DC on December 13th, 2026.
www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrate-...
www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrate-...
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Introducing our keynote speakers for Farbindungen 2026: Yiddish at Work, taking place Feb 15th-16th, virtually. We're beyond excited and honored to have Caroline Luce and Miriam Udel headlining our program this year. Call for papers and submission form can be found at bit.ly/Farbindungen26Submission
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Introducing our keynote speakers for Farbindungen 2026: Yiddish at Work, taking place Feb 15th-16th, virtually. We're beyond excited and honored to have Caroline Luce and Miriam Udel headlining our program this year. Call for papers and submission form can be found at bit.ly/Farbindungen26Submission
Looking forward to presenting @uclssees.bsky.social next week on Tea Arciszewska’s life and her (tragically timely) modernist play about children in wartime, “Miryeml.”
@uclhjs.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social
@uclhjs.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social
Please join us for this Study of Central Europe seminar with @sgollance.bsky.social, will discuss her translation of Tea Arciszewska’s play 'Miryeml' as part of a broader effort to uncover Yiddish plays by women.
🗓️ 2 December at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/dOMrzrO
@uclhjslibrary.bsky.social
🗓️ 2 December at 6pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/dOMrzrO
@uclhjslibrary.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Looking forward to presenting @uclssees.bsky.social next week on Tea Arciszewska’s life and her (tragically timely) modernist play about children in wartime, “Miryeml.”
@uclhjs.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social
@uclhjs.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social
פארטייטשט און פארקלענערט @joelberkowitz.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
פארטייטשט און פארקלענערט @joelberkowitz.bsky.social
“Scholars from Vilnius University in Lithuania have launched a breakthrough AI tool capable of reading handwritten Yiddish.”
www.jns.org/vilnius-univ...
www.jns.org/vilnius-univ...
Vilnius University launches new AI tool that accurately reads handwritten Yiddish
This will “contribute to advancing archival research on the history of Jews in Eastern and Central Europe,” said Sergii Gurbych, who created the model.
www.jns.org
November 21, 2025 at 7:15 AM
“Scholars from Vilnius University in Lithuania have launched a breakthrough AI tool capable of reading handwritten Yiddish.”
www.jns.org/vilnius-univ...
www.jns.org/vilnius-univ...
@uclhjs.bsky.social has issued a statement regarding an antisemitic incident at UCL last week where a speaker at a student event made Blood Libel accusations–a pernicious medieval claim that Jews use Christian blood in Passover matzoh.
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Statement from HJS on Blood Libel incident
We applaud UCL for taking swift action and look forward to UCL leadership communicating directly to the UCL community to specifically call out ideas and language that will not be tolerated on campus.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
@uclhjs.bsky.social has issued a statement regarding an antisemitic incident at UCL last week where a speaker at a student event made Blood Libel accusations–a pernicious medieval claim that Jews use Christian blood in Passover matzoh.
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
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Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026-27 Centenary PhD Fellowships for early career historians completing a doctorate bit.ly/48pWB72
Fellowships provide support of £8500 per award for 6 months and are held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
Fellowships provide support of £8500 per award for 6 months and are held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
Applications invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships, 2026-27 - RHS
Applications are now invited for the Royal Historical Society’s Centenary PhD Fellowships to support postgraduate historians to complete a doctorate. Two Fellowships, of six months each, are offered f...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026-27 Centenary PhD Fellowships for early career historians completing a doctorate bit.ly/48pWB72
Fellowships provide support of £8500 per award for 6 months and are held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
Fellowships provide support of £8500 per award for 6 months and are held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
Delighted to hear that Victorian Jewish writer Amy Levy's papers will now be more accessible.
You can read more here: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
I've also written about her writing on dance in my @stanfordpress.bsky.social book and @jofvictculture.bsky.social: jvc.oup.com/tag/ballroom/
You can read more here: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
I've also written about her writing on dance in my @stanfordpress.bsky.social book and @jofvictculture.bsky.social: jvc.oup.com/tag/ballroom/
November 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Delighted to hear that Victorian Jewish writer Amy Levy's papers will now be more accessible.
You can read more here: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
I've also written about her writing on dance in my @stanfordpress.bsky.social book and @jofvictculture.bsky.social: jvc.oup.com/tag/ballroom/
You can read more here: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
I've also written about her writing on dance in my @stanfordpress.bsky.social book and @jofvictculture.bsky.social: jvc.oup.com/tag/ballroom/
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I have been WAITING for a journalist to write this story.
I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.
I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I have been WAITING for a journalist to write this story.
I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.
I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.
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📣 Discover the stories behind our latest exhibition, Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust.
Join us on 2 December for a roundtable discussion with curators Christine Schmidt, Dan Stone, and Roxy Moore that will explore the untold history of of elderly Jews during the Holocaust: buff.ly/LK10rJX
Join us on 2 December for a roundtable discussion with curators Christine Schmidt, Dan Stone, and Roxy Moore that will explore the untold history of of elderly Jews during the Holocaust: buff.ly/LK10rJX
November 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
📣 Discover the stories behind our latest exhibition, Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust.
Join us on 2 December for a roundtable discussion with curators Christine Schmidt, Dan Stone, and Roxy Moore that will explore the untold history of of elderly Jews during the Holocaust: buff.ly/LK10rJX
Join us on 2 December for a roundtable discussion with curators Christine Schmidt, Dan Stone, and Roxy Moore that will explore the untold history of of elderly Jews during the Holocaust: buff.ly/LK10rJX
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Customers outside of the Americas can enjoy the sale, too! Our overseas distributor @mngupbooks.bsky.social is also offering all Penn Press titles for 40% off for the duration of the sale on their website, mngbookshop.co.uk! (Discount applies automatically.)
November 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Customers outside of the Americas can enjoy the sale, too! Our overseas distributor @mngupbooks.bsky.social is also offering all Penn Press titles for 40% off for the duration of the sale on their website, mngbookshop.co.uk! (Discount applies automatically.)
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parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole
November 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole
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“When a school’s own administrators intend to throw away every one of the uni’s depts in so much of the sum total of human knowledge…maybe the onus should be on them to explain their mad plan to leave intellectually immiserated & stifled the students’ lives they ought to be committed to enriching.”
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Opinion | Montclair State’s Inhumanity to the Humanities
Goodbye, English department. Hello, Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies.
www.wsj.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“When a school’s own administrators intend to throw away every one of the uni’s depts in so much of the sum total of human knowledge…maybe the onus should be on them to explain their mad plan to leave intellectually immiserated & stifled the students’ lives they ought to be committed to enriching.”
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WSJ gift link!
These links work indefinitely. (Unlike NYT/WaPo that only last for a week or two.)
These links work indefinitely. (Unlike NYT/WaPo that only last for a week or two.)
Opinion | Montclair State’s Inhumanity to the Humanities
Goodbye, English department. Hello, Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies.
www.wsj.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:11 AM
WSJ gift link!
These links work indefinitely. (Unlike NYT/WaPo that only last for a week or two.)
These links work indefinitely. (Unlike NYT/WaPo that only last for a week or two.)
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The Estonia-Oxford Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship in Baltic Studies 2026-2027 at the European Studies Centre
University of Oxford - St Antony’s College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM221/t...
University of Oxford - St Antony’s College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM221/t...
The Estonia-Oxford Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship in Baltic Studies 2026-2027 at the European Studies Centre at University of Oxford
Apply now for the The Estonia-Oxford Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship in Baltic Studies 2026-2027 at the European Studies Centre role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. V...
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 6:25 AM
The Estonia-Oxford Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship in Baltic Studies 2026-2027 at the European Studies Centre
University of Oxford - St Antony’s College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM221/t...
University of Oxford - St Antony’s College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM221/t...
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Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Health Humanities- UCL - SELCS-CMII #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPL769/a...
Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Health Humanities at UCL
Discover Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Health Humanities jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Health Humanities- UCL - SELCS-CMII #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPL769/a...
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Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern #History- Aarhus University - Department of History and Classical Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK808/a...
Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History at Aarhus University
Apply for the Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View deta...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern #History- Aarhus University - Department of History and Classical Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK808/a...
“While Zarrow presents ample evidence to support the argument that using Polish in ethnoproduction allowed scholars and museum planners to shore up their own status as modern and belonging to a Polish nation, the sources also reveal more complex language politics, especially in regard to Yiddish.”
"Displays of Belonging: Polish Jewish Collecting and Museums, 1891-1941" by Sarah Ellen Zarrow (our peer review editor!), reviewed by Elena Hoffenberg (a former peer review associate!), new on the blog! 🦚
ingeveb.org/articles/mat...
ingeveb.org/articles/mat...
November 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
“While Zarrow presents ample evidence to support the argument that using Polish in ethnoproduction allowed scholars and museum planners to shore up their own status as modern and belonging to a Polish nation, the sources also reveal more complex language politics, especially in regard to Yiddish.”
Upcoming book launch at YIVO for two new books in the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social Yiddish Voices series, translations of works by Rokhl Faygnberg and Ester-Rokhl Kaminska (hybrid event on Dec 2 at 7pm ET). yivo.org/Yiddish-Voic...
'Yiddish Voices': A Translation Series by YIVO and Bloomsbury | YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Elissa Bemporad, Mikhl Yashinsky, and Glenn Dynner explore two new translations from YIVO’s Yiddish Voices series, The Destruction of Dubova by Rokhl Faygenberg and The Mother of Yiddish Theater by Ester-Rokhl Kaminska.
yivo.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Upcoming book launch at YIVO for two new books in the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social Yiddish Voices series, translations of works by Rokhl Faygnberg and Ester-Rokhl Kaminska (hybrid event on Dec 2 at 7pm ET). yivo.org/Yiddish-Voic...
The Byron Society is looking an early career researcher in the Romanticism field, preferably with experience of website management and social media. This paid role will focus on digital promotion activities. Application due 19th Nov.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6197
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6197
Fellowship Opportunity: The Byron Society Fellow – BARS Blog
www.bars.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 7:16 AM
The Byron Society is looking an early career researcher in the Romanticism field, preferably with experience of website management and social media. This paid role will focus on digital promotion activities. Application due 19th Nov.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6197
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6197
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#OnThisDay 1945: Zec, in the Daily Mirror, on Jewish Holocaust survivors and the Labour government’s Palestine policy
November 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
#OnThisDay 1945: Zec, in the Daily Mirror, on Jewish Holocaust survivors and the Labour government’s Palestine policy