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jonah lubin @kuremhs.bsky.social · 2d

can't think of any others but there is a certain resemblance to Luther's "wüst" which also gets picked up in Yehoyesh's "װיסט"

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jonah lubin @kuremhs.bsky.social · 3d

im da timeguessr

Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · 8d

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jonah lubin @kuremhs.bsky.social · Sep 8

watched zoolander on this

Keyboards @keyboards.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social · Sep 2

“When Pepi Littman stepped out onto the stage and caught sight of the [armed gangsters in the first row], she choked up out of fear and was unable even to open her mouth.”
New from the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project — excerpts from Zina Rapel’s memoirs, trans. Zachary Baker.
uwm.edu/yiddish-stag...

Zina Rapel (1884-1943)

Excerpts from Fir doyres idish teater: di lebns-geshikhte fun Zina Rapel (Cuatro generaciones de teatro israelita), by Nechemias Zucker (Buenos Aires: Eygener farlag, 1944) Translated and with an intr...

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · Sep 2

From Ancient Greek to 20 century Yiddish, and from Spain to Georgia: the #DraCor Corpora Conference at #DraCorSummit 2025 is starting right now! 18 @dracor.org corpora presentations to go! The first one is by @juliajbeine.bsky.social about the #NeoLatDraCor

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DraCor @dracor.org · Sep 1

✨ We're kicking off the #DraCorSummit 2025 in Berlin today!

5 days of digital drama analysis, enhancing #DraCor, and celebrating #OpenScience with participants from around the world at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social.

Programme:
summit.dracor.org

@temporal-communities.de @unipotsdam.bsky.social

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jonah lubin @kuremhs.bsky.social · Aug 28

Russian жемчуг is a cognate

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · Aug 25

“Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.”
walzr.com/IMG_0001
this is beautiful 🥲

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jonah lubin @kuremhs.bsky.social · Aug 21

very nice language mixing בײַ שלום־עליכם

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Bot @bdb-bot.bsky.social · Aug 9

Entry:
מְעִי
only in Is 17:1; n[m.] = עִי ruin-heap, but form very strange

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VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social · Aug 8

A fascinating exploration of Chinese reception of Egyptian antiquity by our visiting fellow Tian Tian!

Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · Aug 7

Duanfang 端方 (1861-1911) was one of China's 'constitutional commissioners' in 1905-06. He used his world tour to not only study constitutions, but also to purchase elephants 🐘(backbone of Peking Zoo, first in Asia) - and Egyptiaca. Fascinating article by Tian Tian:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Duanfang’s Egyptian rubbings: the first Egyptian collection in Late Imperial China | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Duanfang’s Egyptian rubbings: the first Egyptian collection in Late Imperial China

www.cambridge.org

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jonah lubin @kuremhs.bsky.social · Aug 8

@lnez.bsky.social

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Jastrow bot @jastrow-bot.bsky.social · Aug 8

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‎הֵה
m. heh, name of a worm in the pomegranate. Sabb. 90 a (Var. הֵא, חָח, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. notes 200 a. 300; Alf. ed. הח).

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jonah lubin @kuremhs.bsky.social · Aug 7

this is the qere for עפלים (hemorrhoids) in Samuel 5-6

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Jastrow bot @jastrow-bot.bsky.social · Aug 3

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‎*בִּסְתַּיָּיר
(read בִּסְטַ') m. (vestiarius, βεστιάριος S.) the keeper of the ( royal) wardrobe. Pesik. R. s. 10.m.

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jonah lubin @kuremhs.bsky.social · Aug 2

@bnuyaminim.bsky.social genesis 14 vibes

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jonah lubin @kuremhs.bsky.social · Jul 31

please say more!

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Jastrow bot @jastrow-bot.bsky.social · Jul 31

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‎אַמְגּוּשְׁתָּא
f. (deriv. of preced. ws.) magianism, magian practices. Sabb. 75 a א' רב ושמואל Ms. M. (ed. מגושתא, Var. אמגושא) as to magianism Rab and Samuel differ, one declaring it to be sorcery, the other—blasphemy.

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jonah lubin @kuremhs.bsky.social · Jul 29

Why do we always assume that these bird names we can't identify are ostriches??

Brown-Driver-Briggs Bot @bdb-bot.bsky.social · Jul 29

Entry:
תַּחְמָס
n.[m.] name of male ostrich

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Jastrow bot @jastrow-bot.bsky.social · Jul 28

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‎וַרְדָּנָא
m. (וַרְדָּא), בי וו' flower-garden (v. וֶרֶד II pl.). B. Bath. 69 a והוא דקרו ליה בי וו' דפ' Ms. M. (ed. לה וורדא; oth. Mss. וַורְדֵּי, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) provided it goes by the name of ‘the flower garden of that man.’

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Jastrow bot @jastrow-bot.bsky.social · Jul 27

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כַּנְדָּא,
m. (κάνδυς, Pers. ) a gown with wide sleeves.— Pl. כַּנְדֵּי . M. Kat. 24 a תליסר כ' מאני Ar. (ed. תריסר מני; Ms. M. תל' בגדי מני, מני being a gloss to our w.).

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Netzschleuder @netzschleuder.skewed.de · Jul 19

roadnet: U.S. roads (CA, PA, TX).

Road networks from three US states (CA, PA, TX), in which edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads.

1090920 nodes, 3083796 edges.

https://networks.skewed.de/net/roadnet#PA

Ridiculogram:

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Svenja Guhr @guhrs.bsky.social · Jul 18

Today’s #highlight for me on the last day of #DH2025? @lucagiovannini.bsky.social presenting his "Modest Proposal for Operationalizing Dramatic Texts". He proposes drama vectorization not to simplify plays, but rather to continue formalist morphological thinking using computational tools. 🎭📊

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Mark Schwindt @schwindt.bsky.social · Jul 18

— Why are you using YAML?
— I don't know, Frank told me to...
#DH2025

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Frank Fischer @umblaetterer.bsky.social · Jul 18

Next up #DH2025, @kuremhs.bsky.social (@harvard.edu) presenting iberz.org, our database of Yiddish translations.

Slides:
sreyfe.github.io/slides/2025-...

Website:
iberz.org

#DigitalHumanities @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

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