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Saul Noam Zaritt

@saulnoamz.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Yiddish, The Ohio State University / A Taytsh Manifesto: www.fordhampress.com/9781531509170/… / new project: shund.org

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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
People are always asking me what readers thought of shund, Yiddish pulp novels, especially in the face of elite (male) criticism. Well, here's one reviewer in the margins... [zeyer a fayner bukh, a very fine book]
a page of a yellowing book with the words in Yiddish "zeyer a fayner bukh," a very fine book.
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
In honor of In geveb's tenth year, I revisit an essay by my mentor Alan Mintz, z"l. For thoughts on Hebrew, the monologic and genocide: ingeveb.org/blog/ends-of...
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The Ends of Dialogue: On Alan Mintz’s Critique of Hebrew | In geveb
During my time editing In geveb’s peer review section, I often found myself plagued by the problem of the detail.
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
In honor of In geveb's tenth year, I revisit an essay by my mentor Alan Mintz, z"l. For thoughts on Hebrew, the monologic and genocide: ingeveb.org/blog/ends-of...
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The Ends of Dialogue: On Alan Mintz’s Critique of Hebrew | In geveb
During my time editing In geveb’s peer review section, I often found myself plagued by the problem of the detail.
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Join me in reading Paley, thinking with her, over four online classes, starting on Thursday, February 26. Registration link below. Use the code PALEY40 for a discount! roundtable.org/live-courses... I think about Grace Paley a lot these days, especially her insistence on the political urgency 1/2
Activist and writer Grace Paley speaking to reporters. (Photo from the Jewish Women's Archive)
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In geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
We are so grateful for all of our colleagues (and dear friends) who joined us on December 13th to kick off AJS and celebrate ten years with us ✨ If you couldn't join us and still want to wish us a happy birthday, you can do so here: donorbox.org/tsen-yor
three smiling women, one of whom is wearing a dress patterned with In geveb's letters motif a table of In geveb tsen yor merch / info about the Yiddish Book Centerin geveb pencils! crowded tables at a biergarten filled with AJS attendees and In geveb well-wishers!
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Magdalena Kozłowska @magdalenakozlowska.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
It was a pleasure to host Saul Noam Zaritt at the University of Warsaw!
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In geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
WE DID IT! 🎉 A sheynem dank to all of you who helped us to raise $20,000 (and counting!) in honor of In geveb's tsen yor anniversary. We are so, so honored by your support and engagement in the community that makes up In geveb: readers, writers, editors, board members, and supporters.
a gold-tinted background with a peacock feather and two white text blocks with the text "a sheynem dank!" and "we met our goal!"
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In geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
We were thrilled to join the Writing It! team at the University of Florida's Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies to chat about the process of starting a journal 🦚 Give it a listen here: writingit.fireside.fm/64
A graphic with two floating rectangles that include the logo for Writing It! and the episode description. There is also a line-drawing graphic of a microphone
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
This winter take a break with Sholem Aleichem and me! Take my course on the Tevye stories at Roundtable with the 92nd street Y. roundtable.org/live-courses... Or, as Tevye puts it, “And now let’s talk about something more cheerful. Tell me, what’s the news about the cholera in Odessa?”
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Roundtable by The 92nd Street Y, New York — Live, Online Classes
Roundtable is live, in-the-moment online classes with respected and passionate experts who give you a place at the table to ask questions, join a discussion, and satisfy your curious mind.
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In geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Come work with us! In geveb is seeking a new member of our editorial staff for the 2025-2026 publishing year. To apply: please submit a cover letter and resume by August 19, 2025 to info@ingeveb.org. Subject line: “managing editor”. Details here: ingeveb.org/blog/in-geve...
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Roni Henig @ronihenig.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
A brilliant review of On Revival is published in In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. Thank you @saulnoamz.bsky.social and @ingeveb.bsky.social @pennpress.bsky.social ingeveb.org/articles/yid...
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Yiddish Revival, Hebrew Revival: A Review | In geveb
Thinking beyond notions of origin, nativity, and possession in language, Henig offers a reflection on the paradoxes of ethnolinguistic nationalism and what it m
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
In which I think again about Hebrew and Yiddish, about the living-dead, about the violence of sovereignty and nationalism, and what it might mean to "walk on the wild side," if only that were possible–all through Roni Henig's fantastic book. ingeveb.org/articles/yid...
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Yiddish Revival, Hebrew Revival: A Review | In geveb
Thinking beyond notions of origin, nativity, and possession in language, Henig offers a reflection on the paradoxes of ethnolinguistic nationalism and what it m
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I definitely forgot to promote this... but if you're in Chicago and want to hear about Lipton Tea and Yehoyash's bible translation then you should probably come to my talk at 4pm today. complit.uchicago.edu/saul-zaritt-...
Clip from a Yiddish ad from Lipton's tea that includes an image of a laborer on a Ceylon tea plantation, with a caption that reads "how to pick tea on the Lipton plantations"
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I'm teaching an online class this July, all about the short story and Jewish American writing—a return to some parts of my first book and plenty of fun with Delmore Schwartz, Grace Paley, and Saul Bellow. (I promise you that Delmore and Grace will win out the day.) Registration link below...
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I am humbled to be among this year's Berlin Prize fellows, joining a wide-ranging group of scholars, writers, and artists (including the yidishist in hiding, Ross Perlin). The move to Ohio will be delayed to spend the fall on the shores of the Wannsee reading Yiddish trash...
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
The taytsh campaign continues! I'll be giving a zoom talk on Wednesday about the book through the Southern California Workers Circle (Arbeter ring). Registration link below...
poster for zoom talk on Saul's book A taytsh manifesto, including time and date: may 7, 2025 at 4pm pacific time and 7pm eastern time
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
In the midst of all the terror and looming precarity, something to look forward to, professionally and personally: come July 1 I'll be an assistant professor of Yiddish and Ashkenazic Culture at The Ohio State University.
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Farbindungen Yiddish Studies Conference @farbindungen.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
It's been 2 weeks since #Farbindungen25 Bad Yiddish, and we're still thinking about all of the amazing panels and talks! You can now watch the incredible keynote address, by @saulnoamz.bsky.social and Natan M. Meir, available on our YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvhT...
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Farbindungen 2025: Keynote Panel w/ Saul Noam Zaritt and Natan M. Meir
YouTube video by Farbindungen Yiddish Conference
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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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Alona Bach @bachwards.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
What other social and technological futures have we imagined, feared, hoped for—af yidish? Help us imagine, remember, and consider alternative possibilities by submitting to @ingeveb.bsky.social 's special issue on #Yiddish #scifi. Full CFP: ingeveb.org/blog/call-fo...
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Farbindungen Yiddish Studies Conference @farbindungen.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Introducing! מיר שטעלן פֿאָר! The keynote panel of #Farbindungen25 Bad Yiddish will feature Saul Noam Zaritt and Natan M. Meir, moderated by Jacqueline Krass. Register today, link in bio!
A picture of Saul Noam Zaritt, with a bio and panel details. Long description linked in the reply.A picture of Natan M. Meir, with a bio and panel details. Long description linked in the reply.A picture of Jacqueline Krass, with a bio and panel details. Long description linked in the reply.
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Sarah Biskowitz @sarahbiskowitz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Made a Yiddishist starter pack...let me know if I should add anyone :) go.bsky.app/B3QwrtA
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
"We must not close ranks and presume to heal a private family affair. I submit that we must seek out difference, not mourn it as something to be rendered dead and buried. Taytsh instructs us to sit with the ghosts, who are not and cannot be satisfied,... " [1/2]
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In geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
We're pleased to present A Taytsh Forum! We at In geveb have invited a group of Yiddish Studies scholars to offer responses to Saul Noam Zaritt's A Taytsh Manifesto. These responses, as varied and complex as A Taytsh Manifesto itself, are followed by a reply from Zaritt. buff.ly/4h8XfaL
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
What a privilege to be read so thoroughly and so generously, with critique and shared responsibility—for the field and for much else beyond the field. A taytsh forum! ingeveb.org/issues/forum...
Screen shot of the landing page for a website that gives links to a book forum on A Taytsh Manifesto
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In geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Marina Mayorski reviews Ayelet Brinn's A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press: "A Revolution in Type offers a timely and forceful contribution to the study of Jewish history, culture, and gender." buff.ly/3DiHj76
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Got my copy of @ronihenig.bsky.social ‘s book and you should too. Stay tuned for a spring event for our books together…
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Yiddish digital humanities and taytsh, a discussion by Jonah Lubin: "If the Oytser is a forerunner to Yiddish DH, with all its obsessive prescriptivism, then how might we imagine taytsh DH? What does it mean to taytsh label, without lehavdils?" articulations.temporal-communities.de/contribution...
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
People often ask me what's going on at Harvard. Here's one report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...
Headline on black background: "Harvard Denied Its Only Yiddish Professor Tenure. Did the Process Fail Him?
When Yiddish studies professor Saul Noam Zaritt was denied tenure in June at the direction of Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76, Zaritt’s own tenure review committee was stunned. They say Harvard mishandled the case — and left the future of Yiddish instruction in limbo."
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Alona Bach @bachwards.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Just three more days to send in your proposals for #Farbindungen25 "Bad Yiddish / בעד ייִדיש"! More info & submit: www.farbindungen.com/2025 📷: Di varhayt (29 June 1915), p. 3.
Scan of an add for a room rental in a Yiddish newspaper, with many Englishisms ("a kitshen, leytest impruvments"). The headline reads "Bath Beach" in transliterated Yiddish: "Bed Bitsh"
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Hello new followers—I’m a scholar of Yiddish studies and I’ve written two books, one about Jewish American writers and their dealings with the concept of world literature and the other, just out in October, about Yiddish and translation. It’s a manifesto!
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Alona Bach @bachwards.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
A pair of keynote speakers on Bad #Yiddish who are (unthematically) excellent! From shtetl to shund, looking forward to hearing about how and why Yiddish writers, speakers, and genres get coded as "bad." (Proposals for #Farbindungen25 will be open until November 15th: www.farbindungen.com/2025)
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
I’m honored to be one of the keynote speakers, alongside Natan Meir, for the Farbindungen conference @farbindungen.bsky.social Tune in for plenty of talk about shund (trash) and all the bad Yiddish you can take!
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Here is an excerpt from my taytsh manifesto, which of course has 10 points, in Yiddish and in English. Here is #8, with something to say about our present moment...
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Sorry I have been gone from here for so long—in the meanwhile the book became real and arrived in the world! Tatysh for one and all! www.fordhampress.com/978153150917...
Cover of a book, collage of Yiddish text, yellowed, with the title “A tatysh manifesto: Yiddish, Translation, and the making of modern Jewish culture”
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
Book proofs!
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
It's coming up on the end of the semester when I share with my students all the new things going on in the Yiddish world—what are your favorite projects? Don't be afraid to self-promote. [and a bit of shund for your enjoyment along the way: "Her Men," a novel by none other than Miriam Karpilove]
headline of the Yiddish novel "ire mener," her men, but Miriam Karpilove
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
When I say that I sometimes just ask @eddyportnoy.bsky.social about random things in the Yiddish press, this is why: the shnorer's club, its mysterious library, and its lavish balls... ingeveb.org/blog/shnorer
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Ain’t No Party Like a Shnorer Party: The Wild and Short Life of a Literary Support Group | In geve...
The Shnorer Association, also sometimes known as The Shnorer Club, sponsored a variety of cultural events in New York City from 1915 through around 1925.
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In geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
"Dancing: Are you serious? Until 6am." @eddyportnoy.bsky.social reports on The Shnorer Association, also sometimes known as The Shnorer Club, a Yiddish arts organization which sponsored a variety of cultural events - some rather raucous - from 1915 through around 1925.
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Ain’t No Party Like a Shnorer Party: The Wild and Short Life of a Literary Support Group | In geve...
The Shnorer Association, also sometimes known as The Shnorer Club, sponsored a variety of cultural events in New York City from 1915 through around 1925.
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
“Rather than depending on Eddy’s memory or borrowing another scholar’s hastily scribbled index cards (or perhaps in addition to these time-honored traditions), we can let technology do more of the heavy lifting.” @zanykirz.bsky.social interviews me for @ingeveb.bsky.social link below ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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In geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
As @saulnoamz.bsky.social explains, "Shund is less interested in longevity, prestige, or in some way producing a “Jewish” novel—it just wants to entertain, and this is part of its power."
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
“Rather than depending on Eddy’s memory or borrowing another scholar’s hastily scribbled index cards (or perhaps in addition to these time-honored traditions), we can let technology do more of the heavy lifting.” @zanykirz.bsky.social interviews me for @ingeveb.bsky.social link below ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
I hear that the internet loves cats. Here you go. (source: www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/...)
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 07/09/2023
I don't know what kinds of sacrifices to which gods made this happen, but my department (comp lit) is conducting two junior searches this year. The first in media history and theory, which I shared a while ago. This next one is in translation studies. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12725
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 07/09/2023
"The boy, in his appearance, is not very interesting... The father is also not very interesting... But his mother is a remarkable woman, her name is Sonia, and she is a Russian-Jewish intellectual.” What can shund.org tell us about Yiddish mothers? Link in comments...
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 03/09/2023
I see that Yiddish “revival” and “survival” is back in the discourse (and in the pages of the gray lady), which forces me again to post this now dated description of zombie Yiddish: ingeveb.org/blog/loshn-o...
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shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 29/08/2023
Rosh Hashanah card made in Germany in the late 19th or early 20th century museums.cjh.org/web/pages/cj...
A purple and yellow flower with a face. Its body is green and its hand is holding a smaller purple flower.
The text says לשנה טובה (happy new year)
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 29/08/2023
Hi Bluesky, another exciting t-t opening here: pls help us publicize before the 11/1 deadline. As @saulnoamz.bsky.social has mentioned, Comp Lit is looking for a scholar of media history/theory/archaeology who works on non-anglophone cultural traditions: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12720
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Tenure Track Professor of Comparative Literature
The Department of Comparative Literature seeks to appoint a tenure-track professor in comparative literature whose research falls within the broadly defined domain of media history, theory, and archeo...
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Saul Noam Zaritt @saulnoamz.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
Announcing a search for a tenure track appointment in Harvard's Comp Lit department, with specialization in the broadly defined domain of media history, theory, and archeology. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12720
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
Friends, may I ask you pls to help me publicize a t-t job at my institution? Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard is seeking a scholar of French/Francophone lit who specializes in a period before the 19th century. Applications due 9/22. Thank you! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12490
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Tenure-Track Professor of Pre-1800 French and Francophone Studies
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures seeks to hire a tenure-track professor of French and Francophone literatures and cultures specializing in any of the periods prior to the nineteenth...
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