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Rachel Greenblatt

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Reading & writing on early modern Jewish history, women writers, old books & libraries of all ages, collective memory, higher ed. I like to be around people I can learn from, esp students & my kids. Love Irish trad sessions https://orcid.org/0000-0002-388

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · Jul 14

Hi folks, let's see if anyone is here! Glikl was NOT the only pre-modern Jewish woman who wrote -- check it out! ingeveb.org/articles/wom... #women in #earlymodern #Jewish #History in #Yiddish in
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Women Wrote: Glikl in Context | In geveb

Placing Glikl's writing alongside writings by other contemporary women in central Europe reveals what characterized their shared literary and cultural context.

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · Sep 9

On the inspiring work of Balazs Tamasi of Budapest in recovering the pre-World War II library of the Jewish Theological Seminary there. #BookHistory #Libraries #LootedBooks www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...

Rebuilding a Historic Jewish Library, Book by Book

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Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · Aug 29

Now that terms and semesters are in full swing, giving this cfp a boost.

Speaking as one of the editors, we'd love to consider your work on the topic of "Early Modern Women and Migrancy." Our Forum feature is a great way to try out ideas in a shorter-length format.

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Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · Jul 20

Here's our CFP for the Forum again, with ALT text

The editors of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal invite submissions for the Fall 2026 / Volume 21.1 Forum on the topic of Early Modern Women and Migrancy.
In keeping with the Journal’s tradition since its third issue (2008), this Forum will comprise short contributions on a single topic by scholars from a variety of disciplines. For Volume 21.1, we invite contributions on women’s experiences of migration and migrancy specifically (as opposed to other kinds of mobility) in the early modern world. We particularly encourage submissions that appeal to readers across disciplinary and national boundaries. Articles may cover literature, history, art history, history of science, geography, music, politics, religion, theater, cultural studies, and any region of the early modern world. At least part of our selection process will be focused on assuring geographical, chronological, and disciplinary diversity across the essays ultimately published in this Forum.

Submissions are due October 15, 2025 and should be 3,500 words including footnotes; essays should follow the EMW Style Guide (www.journals.uchicago.edu/pb-assets/docs/journals/EMW-style-guide-CMOS18-1735857164913.pdf). Contributions will be peer-reviewed.

If you have any questions about whether your proposed forum essay fits the scope of the journal, please contact us at emw@press.uchicago.edu.

Please submit contributions at https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/emw/about.

See Submissions and Instructions for Authors. For article type, select Forum. For additional queries, please contact the editors at emw@press.uchicago.edu.

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · Sep 3

And it's not just the human labor cost: this article shows that the information returned is highly filtered, lower quality, and essentially censored. 2/2

Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · Sep 3

#Metadata matters-deepening my discomfort w online catalogs: "Here lies the paradox of our moment: the same technological advances celebrated for their efficiency are erasing the human expertise that creates the high-quality metadata these systems depend on to function." #libraries #bookhistory 1/2

The Scholarly Kitchen @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social · Aug 26

Guest Post — Beyond Classification: The Human Cost of Library and Information Labor Under Digital Capitalism scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/26/g...

Guest Post — Beyond Classification: The Human Cost of Library and Information Labor Under Digital Capitalism - The Scholarly Kitchen

In an era of information abundance and epistemic chaos, libraries serve as crucial sites for democratic knowledge practices -- protecting them is critical to preserving the infrastructure of informed ...

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · Aug 28

Very exciting news! I'll try to get it for @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social library. Unfortunately, these bibliographies are expensive, and Oxford University Press makes #InterLibraryLoan nearly impossible in many cases. Contact your local #librarian for more info, folks.

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · Aug 27

“Chicago has long helped to keep alive tiny fields & esoteric areas of humanistic study... Without the univ’s support, & the continued training of grad students who can keep these bodies of kn going, entire spheres of human learning might eventually blink out.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

If the University of Chicago Won’t Defend the Humanities, Who Will?

Why it matters that the University of Chicago is pausing admissions to doctoral programs in literature, philosophy, the arts, and languages

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Jul 13

Parents insist their kids go to college to get business degrees. Administrators respond by defunding the humanities and social sciences, while hiring business profs at ~2X what historians get paid. Meanwhile, businesses say over and over that they want to hire humanities and social science majors.

Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Jul 13

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · Jul 7

amazing resource for #JewishLanguages (including #EarlyModern languages)

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · Jul 7

BTW there are SO MANY Jewish languages, people

here's a resource mapping about 33 of them, from Juhuri/Judeo-Tat to Haketia to Jewish Malayalam:

Jewish Languages

An introduction to Jewish languages around the world, past and present, including longstanding ones, like Judeo-Arabic, Ladino, and Yiddish, and new ones like Jewish English and Jewish Russian.

www.jewishlanguages.org

Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · Jun 27

Is @tigers.bsky.social #baseball on bsky yet? LOVE this photo of Dietrich Enns & fam. #persistence ! #GoDownMoTown ! Souse & I had the joy of meeting wife & daughter at a #MudHens game in #Worcester earlier this year. So happy for all of them.

From right to left: Detroit Tigers pitcher Dietrich Enns in a Tigers baseball t-shirt, his young daughter and wife in Tigers home jerseys. They are standing on the grass the left of the third-base line of a baseball diamond. Behind them is a huge screen showing the words "Welcome to Detroit Dietrich Enns," and a photo of Enns sitting, wearing a Detroit home uniform.

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Michelle Margolis @mmargolis.bsky.social · Jun 25

They're so cool

Vanessa Freedman @vrfreedman.bsky.social · Jun 25

Looking forward to hearing more about the Library of Lost Books project #AJLCon25

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Haim Gottschalk @hgot.bsky.social · Jun 23

A riveting presentation on Fanny Goldstein by Richard Michelson

#AJLCon2025 @jewishlibraries.bsky.social

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Association of Jewish Libraries @jewishlibraries.bsky.social · Jun 23

#AJLCon25 is underway, with great title recommendations during "Kiki and Kvetch: Spilling the Tea on Queer Jewish Books for Teens and Adults."

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Association of Jewish Libraries @jewishlibraries.bsky.social · Jun 23

Mazel tov, Marcie Eskin, on receiving the Fanny Goldstein Merit Award! Thank you for everything you do for AJL! #AJLCon25

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · Jun 18

You mean this guy? bsky.app/profile/atru... Good luck with that.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jun 18

Trump: "We have planes that are undetectable flying around. Nobody's able to see them. Stealth."

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Brandeis University Press @brandeispress.bsky.social · Jun 18

More about GLIKL: brandeisuniversitypress.com/title/glikl-...

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · Jun 18

As the world burns, retreat into the past! Resposting this podcast on the inimitable #Glikl because #WomenWhoWrote entertain us, teach us, live in us. Check out Sara Friedman's translation based on Prof. Chava Turniansky's edition at @brandeispress.bsky.social #EarlyModern #JewishHistory

Glikl of Hameln (1647 – 1724) and her memoirs (with Dr. Rachel Greenblatt) – Seforimchatter PodcastApple PodcastsSpotify

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Association of Jewish Libraries @jewishlibraries.bsky.social · Jun 18

#AJLCon25 is next week, with a packed schedule of educational, enriching, entertaining, and fun programming!

Don't miss out; visit jewishlibraries.org/2025-digital-conference for more information and to register.

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · Jun 15

Thanks

Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · Jun 15

Big fan of your work here. What about the elephant in the room when it comes to Black Dads in US TVLand? / Is there room for the art when the person/persona it's so tightly bound up with turns out to be a -- padon my language -- shmuck?

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sarahlck.bsky.social @sarahlck.bsky.social · Jun 15

@hcrichardson.bsky.social
Lexington, MA today 🇺🇸

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Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · Jun 15

In the middle of everything, I will not forget them.

#LetThemAllGoNow
#AllTogether
#UntilTheLastHostage
#BringThemHomeNow

617 days have passed since October 7th. 53 hostages are still being held captive by the terror organization Hamas.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · Jun 15

One Minnesota.

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · Jun 10

Arts, humanities, culture, books, scholarship. . . and the question is: Name some things that matter! See explanation below. #NEH #BookHistory #Skystorians #JewishHistory Thank you @mmargolis.bsky.social & Footprints footprints.ctl.columbia.edu

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Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · Jun 8

Not so accurate re medieval Jews. #christonormativity

Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social · Jun 5

Not any more. Good question.

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