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Wojciech Tworek

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- The Polish Exile: Chabad Hasidism in the Interwar Years (www.mqup.ca/Books/T/The-Polish-Exile) - Hasidism: the Basics (www.routledge.com/Hasidism-The-Basi…) א לוסטיקער פעסימיסט

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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Melba's already got her copy. Have you ordered yours?
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
איזו מן שלווה ולא עושים שום דבר.....
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
מתוק מדבש
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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Our Fall 2026 catalogue is here! Check out our featured titles: buff.ly/SWZILud Download the catalogue: buff.ly/XE0bIkv
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
why translating your academic article into hebrew if you can write a faux-medieval poem about it instead? from the works of Raphael Loewe the Londoner
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
sobotni suchar
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"Some years ago there came into my possession an offprint of one of the early studies in the Kabbalah by Gershom Scholem (...). On the offprint was a dedication written in Hebrew in Scholem's hand. I have often wondered to whom this dedication might have been addressed."
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
cats and dogs of #stockholm
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Historical Atlas of Hasidism before Historical Atlas of Hasidism. אברהם גרינבוים, התפשטות חסידות במאה ה-19
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Françoïs Guesnet @guesnet.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Wonderful to see Ada Rapoport-Albert honoured as one of the ‘UCL at 200' faces! www.ucl.ac.uk/about/search...
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Mysticism and mentorship: Ada Rapoport-Albert, leading scholar of Jewish Studies
Ada Rapoport-Albert was a respected scholar of Jewish history, Hasidism and mysticism and a foundational figure in UCL’s Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
shabes read
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The Polish Exile www.mqup.ca/Books/T/The-...
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The Polish Exile
Hasidism, a vibrant Jewish mystical movement, emerged in Eastern Europe in the eighteenth century. Among its branches, Chabad took root and flourished in tsarist Russia, radiating its distinct intelle...
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Proof day! דער וועג צו דעם ביכל איז געווען א לאנגער און שווערער וויי דער יידישער גלות, אבער אז מען ווארט, דערווארט מען זיך פארט! און אז ״ביז דער קרעטשמע דארף מען אויך א טרינק״ - א פאר זייטלעך, זיס צו מאכן דאס ווארטן.
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Yey! My bikhl about Chabad in interwar Poland is available for pre-order! Coming out from MQUP in mid-September. www.amazon.ca/Polish-Exile...
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
הערט א מעשה!
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
אט אט קומט דאס ספרל אט אט הנה זה בא
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
1940s Yiddish catposting (morgen zhurnal)
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
see u in ברעבלע this july!
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
wydawnictwo.ossolineum.pl/produkt/opow... już w sprzedaży!
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Opowieści chasydzkie. Antologia - Wydawnictwo Ossolineum
Chasydyzm zrodził się na południowo-wschodnich kresach Rzeczypospolitej w niewielkiej grupie kabalistów i mistyków, ale szybko stał się jednym z największych ruchów religijnych wśród wschodnioeuropejs...
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
wydawnictwo.ossolineum.pl/produkt/opow... już w sprzedaży!
wydawnictwo.ossolineum.pl
Opowieści chasydzkie. Antologia - Wydawnictwo Ossolineum
Chasydyzm zrodził się na południowo-wschodnich kresach Rzeczypospolitej w niewielkiej grupie kabalistów i mistyków, ale szybko stał się jednym z największych ruchów religijnych wśród wschodnioeuropejs...
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
1 anthology 2 editors 4 years of work 15 translators 48 chapters 930 pages of stories
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
wieści idą, że antologia wyjechała z drukarni! 25/09 w księgarniach!
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
#cats and vučkos of #sarajevo
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
must read!!
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
after over three years of collective work, our anthology of hasidic stories is almost out! 800 pp of stories from 1814 to 2022, transl. from hebrew and yiddish, with a book-length intro to hasidic history and lit., as part of the national library series! wydawnictwo.ossolineum.pl/produkt/opow...
wydawnictwo.ossolineum.pl
Opowieści chasydzkie. Antologia - Wydawnictwo Ossolineum
Chasydyzm zrodził się na południowo-wschodnich kresach Rzeczypospolitej w niewielkiej grupie kabalistów i mistyków i szybko stał się jednym z największych ruchów religijnych wśród wschodnioeuropejskic...
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
#cats and #dogs of #torun
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
#Cats of Rogalin
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
promień słońca w ogólnie ciulate czasy: razem z Kasią Taczyńską, אחת ויחידה, przetłumaczyłem Bajki o komunizmie Slavenki Drakulić. I powiem, że opowieści kota Jaruzelskiego, kreta z DDRu czy papugi Tity to cudeńko, שיח שרפי קודש ממש. preorder w wydawnictwie KEW. חיות פון אלע לעמדער-פאראייניקט זיך!!
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
dogs and kitties of Poznań
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
ליובאוויטש בזעיר אנפין
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Eli Rubin @elirubin.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2025), receives a generous and critical review from my friend and colleague @wtworek.bsky.social ingeveb.org/articles/rev...
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Rethinking Chabad Historiography: A Review Essay on Eli Rubin's Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity | In geveb
While not the first, Rubin’s book is among the very few that aim to address the history of the Chabad movement as a whole, placing its major figures in dialogue
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Jüdische Studien @juedstudien.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
#CfP: IV International Conference on Jews in Galicia. Histories, Topographies, and Texts in Kraków on October 20-21, 2025 | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/en/news/iv-i... Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2025
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
cats&dogs of the #Polin #museum
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Magdalena Kozłowska @magdalenakozlowska.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Third day of the workshop is about to start and it’s already been such a rich, rewarding experience. Brilliant conversations, generous minds and more to come! #ModernMediterranean @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social #EAJS @ncn.gov.pl @unigroningen.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social #UniversityofWarsaw
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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Françoïs Guesnet @guesnet.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
3 scholarships for the MA Jewish Studies at UCL, each worth £ 4,000: - Hyman Hurwitz Scholarship in Jewish Languages - Ada Rapoport-Albert Scholarship in Jewish Religious Life - The Hebrew and Jewish Studies Scholarship in Jewish History and Politics www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
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Study
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
the Jewish Studies Week at the Wirth Institute @ualberta.bsky.social is coming up. On Tue I will speak about Hasidic nostalgia. Everone's welcome!
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
My article on black kasha in Chabad is out! Had much fun writing about shvartse kashe, its history and contemporary uses, as well as food and nostalgia in Judaism. You can access it the latest Jewish Quarterly Review at muse.jhu.edu/article/952522
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
if you're in Montreal, come on Mon, 24 Feb to the Jewish Studies Dept. I will be talking about interwar yeshivas, and how all this edu business was (under)funded. Come for Hasidic revival, stay for uncanny parallels with today's academia!
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The Economy of an Interwar Yeshivah - Dr. Wojciech Tworek
Location: Leacock 738 This talk examines the financial operations of rabbinical academies (yeshivas) in Poland during the interwar years (1918–1939), a period marked by a revival of Orthodox Judaism. ...
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
כל יום אני תולש מהלוח דף....
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
My brilliant dept colleague Agnieszka August-Zarębska coorganises a conference on translation in Sephardic culture at CSIC Madrid (2 feb 2025). It will be hybrid, links will follow. everyone's welcome!!
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
beuthen by night
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
The Polish diary of Sarah Schenirer is finally out!!! Huge congrats to Joanna Degler, Dariusz Dekiert, and the whole team of zydzi.autobiografia.uni.wroc.pl An absolute must-read for anyone into Bais Yaakov, Hasidism, Jewish education etc.
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
proofs have dropped just in time for #19kislev!
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
דער ווינטער קומט אן youtu.be/a8kFkSr67Uk?...
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חיים שלמה מאיעס - בואי בשלום Chaim Shlomo Mayesz - Boi Beshalom
YouTube video by חיים שלמה מאיעס Chaim Shlomo Mayesz
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Fellow AJS-ians! On Wed, 8.30-10.00am est I'll be presenting on "The Myth of Apolitical Hasidism" in Lubavitch, in a panel with Olga Petrova and @abcurry.bsky.social . On thu, 3.30-5.00 pm est will chair an exciting panel on Women in Hasidism. kumt masnvayz! @jewishstudies.bsky.social
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Sam Glauber @sglauber.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Friends and colleagues registered for AJS, please join me on Wed 18/12 at 1:30 PM EST/8:30 PM Jerusalem time, for a really exciting panel with Zuzanna Kołodziejska-Smagała and Zohar Weiman-Kelman on "Yiddish Discourses of Body, Gender, and Sexuality (1880–1939)." Naomi Seidman will be responding!
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Wojciech Tworek @wtworek.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
one of quite a number of meshikhist and anti-meshikhist ephemera, which Ada Rapoport-Albert held in her library. regardless of its content, i am SO gonna use this 'notice' in my forthcoming book on Chabad
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CU Boulder Program in Jewish Studies @cujewishstudies.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The Program in Jewish Studies & CU Libraries support visiting scholars whose research interests take advantage of unique resources in the Innovations in Jewish Life Collections. tinyurl.com/ShneerFellow... Note: this website is under construction and will be updated 12/10 @samirakmehta.bsky.social
White text on maroon background. Shneer Family Fellowship in Innovations in Jewish Life. This $2500 fellowship is open to faculty and doctoral students who have advanced to candidacy. Recipients of the annual award must be in-residence for a minimum of four days. Recipients must use the research funds during the 2025-2026 academic year. Recipients will present a faculty and graduate student colloquium related to their research project during their visit.
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