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Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

“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...

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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 · 02/09/2025

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 · 01/09/2025

✨ 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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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

“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 · 21/08/2025

very nice language mixing בײַ שלום־עליכם

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Bot @bdb-bot.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

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 · 08/08/2025

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

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Jastrow bot @jastrow-bot.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

⁂°⁂ ‎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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Jastrow bot @jastrow-bot.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

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

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Jastrow bot @jastrow-bot.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

‎⁂°⁂ ‎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 · 29/07/2025

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

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Jastrow bot @jastrow-bot.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

‎⁂°⁂ ‎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 · 27/07/2025

‎⁂°⁂ 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 · 19/07/2025

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

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Svenja Guhr @guhrs.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

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 · 18/07/2025

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

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Frank Fischer @umblaetterer.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

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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Mark Schwindt @schwindt.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Still holding… #DH2025

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DraCor @dracor.org · 14/07/2025

💫 We just rolled out a new #DraCor release featuring significant improvements to the API, Frontend, and Schema. Full update here: weltliteratur.net/dracor-platf... #DigitalHumanities #DH2025

Screenshot of the dracor.org frontpage from 14 July 2025.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Bot @bdb-bot.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Entry: א Āleph, first letter; in postBHeb. = numeral 1 (and so in margin of printed MT); אֿ = 1000; no evidence of this usage in OT times.

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jonah lubin @kuremhs.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

crazy: papiamentu uses a modal verb derived from dutch "worden" to mark passive

From: https://pap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceddanne_Rafaela

Rafaela a wòrdu inkluí komo parti di e roster di e dia di apertura di Boston pa kuminsá e temporada di 2024.[4] Dia 8 di aprel 2024, Rafaela a firma un kontrato di ekstension ku Red Sox di $50 mion pa ocho aña, ku ta pone ku e lo keda den e ekipo te ku temporada 2031.[5]

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Netzschleuder @netzschleuder.skewed.de · 02/07/2025

linux: Linux source inclusions (v3.16). A network of Linux (v3. 30837 nodes, 213954 edges. networks.skewed.de/net/linux Ridiculogram:

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jonah lubin @kuremhs.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

did i dream that there was some sort of connection between the names of the kings and the names of the cities in Genesis 14? cuz i was sure there was and now i can't find anything

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In geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Eric Joas and Olof Bortz share an overview of the work of Mordechai Forlerer, a Yiddish translator of, and enthusiast for, Swedish literature whose work shows the transnational nature of Yiddish culture during the interwar period. English translation by Matthew Johnson. ingeveb.org/blog/mordko-...

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Leonardo Flores @leoflores.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Taper #14: Sonnets is out! Come explore 28 tiny self-contained computational creative works that explore the sonnet as a form or engage with some aspect of the number 14. taper.badquar.to/14/ #elit #creativecoding #art #sonnet

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Netzschleuder @netzschleuder.skewed.de · 13/06/2025

fullerene_structures: Fullerene molecular structures. Fifteen networks of carbon atoms and the atomic bonds that connect them within molecules of fullerenes, from 60 atoms up to 6000 atoms. 4860 nodes, 7290 edges. networks.skewed.de/net/fullerene_st… Ridiculogram:

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jonah lubin @kuremhs.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

anyone know ways Rashi expresses "i don't know" besides אֵינִי יוֹדֵעַ" and "לֹא יָדַעְתִּי"?

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Random midrash time: Job (יוב, Gen 46:13), son of Issachar, complained that his name sounded like that of an idol (Jove). So his father gave him his שׁ, turning his name into Jashub (ישוב, Num 26:24). That's why the second ש in Issachar is silent (יִשָּׂשכָר).

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jonah lubin @kuremhs.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

who remembers this guys toes

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Mona @monrac.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

a 19th century letter manual, decomposed and recomposed: www.monathierse.net/lettergenera...

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Read the original here.All letters are in the public domain.

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In geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

We have extended the deadline for submissions to our special issue on "Yiddish Science Fiction" to Monday, May 5th. We seek submissions for our blog, pedagogy, and translation sections, as well as a special section of minyaturn. More information: ingeveb.org/blog/call-fo...

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jonah lubin @kuremhs.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

little blog post with Stammbaums of object inheritances in Photoshop 1.0.1, nach @tillheilmann.bsky.social www.klejb.net/posts/2025-0...

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Inheritance in Photoshop 1.0.1

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Frank Fischer @umblaetterer.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Just published @hsozkult.bsky.social: Conference report · "Linked Open Data and Literary Studies" www.hsozkult.de/conferencere... @luntner.bsky.social @viktor.im @kuremhs.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @temporal-communities.de Slide sets: www.temporal-communities.de/events/2024/...

Poster for our conference "Linked Open Data and Literary Studies" at Freie Universität Berlin.

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In geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Twenty-something year-old Yiddish student Judith Lerner has just set the world record for “Continuous Streak of Leksikon Shpil Wins in One Guess”. She kindly agreed to talk with us about her origins, process, and what she plans to do next. ingeveb.org/blog/world-r...

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Frank Fischer @umblaetterer.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

»Rubens would never have chopped off Samson’s toe«

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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Introducing olmOCR, our open-source tool to extract clean plain text from PDFs! Built for scale, olmOCR handles many document types with high throughput. Run it on your own GPU for free—at over 3000 token/s, equivalent to $190 per million pages, or 1/32 the cost of GPT-4o!

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In geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Call for Submissions: Yiddish Science Fiction!! We invite submissions to a special issue of In geveb on “Yiddish Science Fiction" with guest editors Alona Bach, Sebastian Schulman, and Dalia Wolfson. Submissions are due April 28. See the link for further details. buff.ly/416QaB1

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jonah lubin @kuremhs.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Try to beat me at the Leksikon Shpil (02/18/2025) 🟥🟩⬜⬜⬜ www.leksikonshpil.net

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jonah lubin @kuremhs.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Try to beat me at the Leksikon Shpil (02/17/2025) 🟥🟩⬜⬜⬜ www.leksikonshpil.net

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In geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

In geveb is pleased to present a list of translations from Yiddish into other languages, published in 2024. buff.ly/42R4OPc

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jonah lubin @kuremhs.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

after you, benjamin! god's very polite...

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Into cryptic crosswords? We’ve started our very own “tiny cryptic” series! Published fortnightly on our blog. See the inaugural puzzle here: publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/01...

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