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zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל

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researching yiddishkeit and the yiddish language. looking to follow jewish artists and scholars 🏳️‍🌈🕎 she/her

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zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל @zaftlzussman.bsky.social · Nov 12

hi i'm zaftl ✨ i am researching yiddishkeit, the cultural and political atmosphere in interwar poland, and learning the yiddish language in order to write my first big girl story that i've been dreaming of writing for years. irl lesbian who makes theatre professionally 😌

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zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל @zaftlzussman.bsky.social · 11h

its so interesting how much this diasporic anabaptist german sounds like yiddish...i can understand it so much better than standard german www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkmA...

Exile Germans Of Central Asia 🇰🇬🇩🇪 I S3, EP19

YouTube video by Little Chinese Everywhere

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zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל @zaftlzussman.bsky.social · 1d

my partner and i made this dance together for the yiddish cabaret and it was so much fun!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnWG...

doyna dance Halloween party '25

YouTube video by sophie

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zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל @zaftlzussman.bsky.social · 1d

my partner and i made this dance together for the yiddish cabaret and it was so much fun!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnWG...

doyna dance Halloween party '25

YouTube video by sophie

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zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל @zaftlzussman.bsky.social · 1d

Dybbuk haunted house and cabaret was a HUGE success!!! Feeling so warm about the Philly yiddishist community ❣️

zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל @zaftlzussman.bsky.social · 3d

oh great now my data's gonna get breached techcrunch.com/2025/10/31/h...

Hackers threaten to leak data after breaching University of Pennsylvania to send mass emails | TechCrunch

The hackers sent out mass-emails using official University of Pennsylvania email accounts, and threatened to leak university data.

techcrunch.com

zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל @zaftlzussman.bsky.social · 3d

upenn's email listserv got hacked by someone espousing right-wing views so that was an interesting email to receive

zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל @zaftlzussman.bsky.social · 3d

אַ פֿריילעכען האַלאָװין 🎃

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zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל @zaftlzussman.bsky.social · 3d

its so funny to me when i try to recall yiddish and spanish comes up. i studied japanese and got pretty good only 5 years ago, yet spanish is what my brain connects to automatically even though i stopped learning over 10 years ago. anyway "tomorrow" af yiddish is NOT mañana.

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zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל @zaftlzussman.bsky.social · 4d

i took this pic and it's in the weitzman in philly!

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zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל @zaftlzussman.bsky.social · 4d

wild. this is my photo i took 3 years ago and posted on tumblr. long live the little yiddish phrasebook with confusing rashi script

Liz (short for Rebecca) @dr-liz.bsky.social · 5d

I've always loved this little phrasebook for new (Jewish) immigrants to New York. It's got Yiddish instructions on joining a union! (The right-most column is English transliterated into Yiddish).

Yiddish, English and transliterated English phrasebook for new immigrants. Phrases include "my trade is cloak-making", "what are the dues?" "The fee is very small" and "union is power".

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zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל @zaftlzussman.bsky.social · 5d

דווקא 😌

zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל @zaftlzussman.bsky.social · 5d

איך האָב שטאַרק ליב מײַן זונ־ליכט לאָמפּ 💖☀️

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zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל @zaftlzussman.bsky.social · 5d

my gf has a pyrex design as a tattoo!! its a ring of flowers around her shoulder and its sooo cute

zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל @zaftlzussman.bsky.social · 6d

sometimes i read zohran mamdani's platform page and a single tear rolls down my face in envy...when will philly get mamdani'd....

zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל @zaftlzussman.bsky.social · 6d

via joining another oppressive tradition except you never have to get married or have sex or be pregnant or raise children so in some sort of backwards way its liberatory lol

zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל @zaftlzussman.bsky.social · 6d

theres just st really interesting to me about not only rebelling against your family by refusing an arranged marriage, but going so far as to convert and become a nun that is just so extreme. its not even conformity to hegemony at that point its basically a middle finger to ur oppressive traditions

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zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל @zaftlzussman.bsky.social · 6d

i'm reading the rebellion of the daughters: jewish women runaways in hapsburg galicia and it's so harrowing...i would run away too shit. not to mention i already have a bit of a nun kink so i wouldnt oppose to joining a convent if it was my only option

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zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל @zaftlzussman.bsky.social · 7d

omg!!! loved this

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Lydia לבנה @lydia-levone.bsky.social · 7d

My translation is up on the Yiddish Book Center website! 🎉 So proud to be debuting as a Yiddish translator with Chana Viderman's sensitive reminiscence of adolescence, Jewishness, and being a little bit in love with your cousin.

My Cousin Doba | Yiddish Book Center

Two cousins explore adoration, Jewishness, and growing up in this short essay by Anne (Chana) Viderman, translated by Lydia Moëd.

www.yiddishbookcenter.org

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zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל @zaftlzussman.bsky.social · 7d

i read a really good 2-star review that echoed my thoughts exactly, then i made the mistake of checking the 1-star reviews where one claimed that actually the book was about how jews are poor little victims and the author wouldnt stop talking about jews. what a world. wont be continuing that book

zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל @zaftlzussman.bsky.social · 7d

i started listening to a book about the holodomor but i was doubting its credibility because it seemed extremely anti-communist, i thought it mischaracterized ukraine's role in russian communism and the russian revolution, and i also thought it drastically minimized ukrainian anti-semitism -

zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל @zaftlzussman.bsky.social · 8d

An essential part of my office job is using county or state civil court searches and it's wild how often they're down. Lancaster county PA's site has been a blank templated webpage for like six weeks

zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל @zaftlzussman.bsky.social · 8d

my graphic design is going crazy lately. i made this from scratch on canva

zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל @zaftlzussman.bsky.social · 10d

really interesting video from one of my favorite creators! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXXO...

How do Hasidic Jews earn a living? | Your questions answered here

YouTube video by Frieda Vizel

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zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל @zaftlzussman.bsky.social · 10d

i started reading di ershte bagegenish by bella chagall last night and i absolutely love it, it reminds me of a YA novel actually—in the best way, it's beautiful