Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 31/12/2023My New Year's resolution is to try to do more creative writing in Yiddish. yiddishbranzhe.com/2023/12/31/%... 060
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 29/12/2023Der Tog, June 9, 1927: In a speech, David Sarnoff, Vice President of the RCA, tells the Chicago Association of Commerce that he believes that soon people will communicate more with pictures than with written words. 130
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 21/12/2023You haven't lived until you've spent hours asking various programs and departments to sponsor little pieces of your conference travel, and then spent hours processing reimbursements, only to feel utter dread that you've gotten something wrong, as well as embarassment over the cost of your coffees. 010
Reposted by Jessica KirzaneVenki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 10/12/2023Some thoughts for the academic recommendation letter season; a poem from the December 2023 issue of Poetry Magazine, by Keith Leonard. #poetry 212252
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 07/12/2023Drop everything and read Jonah Lubin's translation from Mimi Pinzón’s novel Der Hoyf on Fentster, published on the website of the Yiddish Book Center.yiddishbookcenter.orgDovid | Yiddish Book CenterA chapter from Mimi Pinzon's novel The Courtyard without Windows, translated by Jonah Lubin. 140
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 01/12/2023Excited to be included in this assortment of stories by students in Boris Sandler's Yiddish prose writing class at The Workers Circle!yiddishbranzhe.comמײַסטער־קלאַס פֿון פּראָזע בײַם „אַרבעטער־רינג‟ווי ס׳איז פֿריִער אַנאָנסירט געוואָרן, ווערן דורכן "זום" דורכגעפֿירט 5 מײַסטער־קלאַסן פֿון ייִדישער פּראָזע, �... 000
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 30/11/2023I have encountered Helena Frank's translations before (and even taught them!) but I had no idea what a significant founding figure she was! So grateful to learn more about her. 020
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 21/11/2023What fun to spend time talking about Miriam Karpilove as a guest on the History of Literature Podcast!historyofliterature.com567 Your Dream Guest: Jessica Kirzane on Translating Yiddish Literature | My Last Book with Jack Zip...Your wish is our command! Jacke talks to listener-nominated "dream guest" Dr. Jessica Kirzane about her work with Yiddish literature, including her recen… 030
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 14/11/2023Just wrote a letter of recommendation for a student I care about and believe in so much that even doing the hard and thankless work of writing a letter of recommendation was nothing but pure pride and pleasure. 020
Reposted by Jessica KirzaneIn geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social · 06/11/2023Shachar Pinsker translates Avrom Karpinovitsh's 1951 story פֿאַרגעס נישט / Don't Forget, which, as Pinsker explains, "shows the proximity between the trauma of the Holocaust and the trauma of the 1948 War."ingeveb.orgפֿאַרגעס נישט | Don't Forget | In gevebShachar Pinsker translates a harrowing story of a Jewish Holocaust survivor and Palmach soldier's confrontation with a Palestinian Arab. 141
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 25/10/2023This was the question I was faced with in early October and did not know how to answer. Thanks to all the people I crowdsourced from to gather some possibilities, and especially to Shachar Pinsker (my co-author). 120
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 19/10/2023red, autumn leaves are falling and I'm thinking of this poem again: "My children, in the slaughter-knife wind Red dew drips from the world’s dawn. Don’t be uprooted by the slashing wind Grow stronger, green brighter!"yiddishbookcenter.org"Red Dew" and "Red Dew, Again" | Yiddish Book CenterA poem of courage in the face of violence; and a reprise, eighty years later. 010
Reposted by Jessica KirzaneIn geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social · 17/10/2023A new Yiddish poem by Ber Kotlerman, composed on Motsei Simchat Torah 5784, and translated by @zanykirz.bsky.social ingeveb.org/texts-and-tr...ingeveb.orgוְהָיָה הָעולָם | New Creation | In gevebA new Yiddish poem by Ber Kotlerman, composed on Motsei Simchat Torah 5784, and translated by Jessica Kirzane. 153
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 13/10/2023Had this song on my mind todayyoutu.beSunday After the WarProvided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesSunday After the War · Daniel Kahn · the Painted BirdLost Causes℗ 2010 Oriente Musik OHGReleased on: 2010-11-16... 020
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 06/10/2023Who will sing this song woth me? Found in an issue of Oktyaberl magazine. (I am having fun teaching Yiddish students from materials in UChicago's Special Collections this quarter!) 130
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 05/10/2023"All night parties with 6000 Jews decked out in literary and artistic costumes, the Shnorer Balls must have been wild. One can only imagine the thousands of partiers cosplaying their favorite characters from literature and the arts all at the behest of the Shnorers." Let's relive this please. 071
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 04/10/2023Cleveland, Jan 13, 1918: The Jewish Business Girls Club Dance: The Jewish Business Girls Club Vacation camp in Huron, Ohio will give its third annual dance this evening... Proceeds will go to the improvement of their camp Ms Rose Wasserman is the president of the club, which has over 150 members. 010
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 04/10/2023Thanks to Mindl Cohen and the Yiddish Book Center, now you can read about A Provincial Newspaper and Other stories on the website of the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative!glli-us.org#Yiddishlitmonth: “A Provincial Newspaper” and Other Storiesby Jessica Kirzane A Provincial Newspaper and Other StoriesWritten by Miriam KarpiloveTranslated from the Yiddish by Jessica KirzaneSyracuse University PressISBN: 978-0815611585 Purchase this book or ... 050
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 02/10/2023I was listening to Supreme: The Battle for Roe (podcast) on my commute this morning. Forgive me for being cheesy, but I absolutely sobbed at the celebratory tone at the end when (spoiler alert) there's a constitutionally protected right to abortion. 100
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 01/10/2023I hear that the internet loves cats. Here you go. (source: www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/...) 2121
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 30/09/2023Extraordinary music! And guess what? The cost is surprisingly low - No higher than that of ordinary music. (spotted in The Sentinel, January 1923) 131
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 28/09/2023Tomorrow my Yiddish class will go to Special Collections in our library to type on a Yiddish typewriter. I have a great job. 290
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 26/09/2023Is there something cool happening in *your* corner of Yiddishland? Consider writing about it for the In geveb blog! 000
Reposted by Jessica KirzaneIn geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social · 20/09/2023For the first time, now you can LISTEN to the translator read the original poem and its translation! (We're trying out this feature - let us know what you think!) 132
Reposted by Jessica KirzaneIn geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social · 20/09/2023Dov Greenwood translates Avram Liessin's "Yom Kippur in Synagogue" / יום־כּיפּור אין שול. "The crowd continues to pray with passion, But one of them, doubting and small, Stands with his father and family, alone, Not noticed by them at all."ingeveb.orgיום־כּיפּור אין שול | Yom Kippur in Synagogue | In gevebDov Greenwood translates Avrom Liessin's haunting poem about faith and fear on Yom Kippur. 124
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 19/09/2023Beatrice Bisno describing her 1938 novel about Chicago garment workers: "These humble tailors constitute a brilliant motif in the complicated fabric of American life and posess... literary significance" 000
Reposted by Jessica KirzaneAncient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · 19/09/2023Do you have a teaching technique, assignment, or activity to share? Consider writing a pedagogy piece for AJR! Contact @kristadalton.bsky.social for more info. 0128
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 18/09/2023First In geveb book review of the publishing year! If you want to review something for us, or suggest something for us to review, write to info@ingeveb.org! 010
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 18/09/2023If you want to hear me talk about Miriam Karpilove's A Provincial Newspaper with one of the scholars I most admire (Anita Norich) you can watch us here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdc8... 010
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 18/09/2023I've found a lot of books to love by purchasing whatever is panned in negative review essays alongside the books I'm reading. Right now I'm reading Beatrice Bisno's Tomorrow's Bread (1938) so it looks like I'll buy myself Myron Brinig's May Flavin, since both were disliked by reviewer Henry Montor. 020
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 15/09/2023Happy Publication Day! 🥳🥳🥳🥳 Pictured: Me, A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories by Miriam Karpilove (Syracuse University Press: TODAY), standing in front of Miriam Karpilove's needlework that hangs in my house. 040
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 14/09/2023אַ גוט יאָר, אַ זיס יאָר, אַ געבענטשט יאָר, אַ יאָר פֿול מיט פֿאַרכאַפּנדיק לײענװאַרג פֿון „אין געװעב“ May you have a good, sweet, blessed year, full of captivating writing from In geveb! 040
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 11/09/2023In 1930, Meyer Zolotarev interviewed UChicago physicist Prof. Albert A. Michelson, who measured the speed of light, for the Yiddish journal Shikage. "What's the use of an interview?" asks the prof. "Just come in and have a cup of coffee. Why bog down your brain in all this scientific terminology?" 162
Reposted by Jessica KirzaneRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 10/09/2023A group of U.S.-based Moroccan academics have organized a GoFundMe for rural victims of the 6.8 magnitude earthquake. Please join me in donating. Any amount helps, funds will go directly to victims. #MoroccoEarthquake www.gofundme.com/f/psjn9p-mor... Plz share with you communities, colleaguesgofundme.comMorocco Earthquake Relief, organized by Brahim El GuabliA devastating earthquake hit Morocco yesterday, leaving thousands of people dead, injured … Brahim El Guabli needs your support for Morocco Earthquake Relief 03849
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 08/09/2023Give @ingeveb.bsky.social a follow if you're excited about Yiddish Studies, broadly speaking. We have so many great book reviews, pedagogy pieces, academic articles, translations, and more lined up for this year! 031
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 08/09/2023From a 1934 newspaper - a report on a newly invented typewriter so small you can fit it in your pocket: 030
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 07/09/2023Putting final touches on a book chapter about author/screenwriter Marian Spitzer, so here's a fun anecdote about her, published in the celebrity gossip column of The Sentinel in 1930. 020
Reposted by Jessica KirzanePsaltery & Lyre @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social · 28/08/2023“We’re almost there,” you’d say, “keep crawling. We’re almost to Chicago.” Jory Mickelson’s “Chicago”psalteryandlyre.orgChicagoby Jory Mickelson 143
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 30/08/2023Do you make grammatical mistakes with your Yiddish? You too can be a Yiddish writer like Miriam Karpilove! (pictured: a description of MK's poor grammar by a grumpy critic in 1922) 020
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 28/08/2023LOOK what arrived in the mail today!!! press.syr.edu/supressbooks... 030
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 28/08/2023Ladies, who wants to go to this Yiddish production in Chicago with me for free on Thursday? (All we need is a time machine and we can watch Khane Holander in Leyb Malekh's The Yellow Shadow). 020
Jessica Kirzane @zanykirz.bsky.social · 25/08/2023It's my first post on here, so I guess I'll share a rather grisly Chicago Yiddish poem by L. Gorelik, first (I think) published in 1921 in Fraye Arbeter Shtime. "Your sky is grey and smoky/ your streets dirty and vast / children play on your sidewalks / next to them lies a dead cat"... 0171
