Maia Evrona
@maiaevrona.bsky.social
Poet, prose writer, translator of #Yiddish poetry, tanguera, Leonard Cohen enthusiast. #NEAarts fellow
"From a Bird's Cage to a Thin Branch; The Selected Poems of Yosef Kerler" out now from White Goat Press
www.maiaevrona.com
"From a Bird's Cage to a Thin Branch; The Selected Poems of Yosef Kerler" out now from White Goat Press
www.maiaevrona.com
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Maia Evrona
@maiaevrona.bsky.social
· Dec 17
Australia's Yiddish community is thriving, not reviving
Yiddish is thriving in Australia, but not revived. It has been sustained as a language there for more than 100 years.
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I was glad to see an article in @forward.com yesterday that mentioned the Australian Jewish community’s connection to Yiddishkayt. I disagreed, however, with how that connection was characterized. Today, the Forward kindly published a letter I sent them about it.
forward.com/opinion/lett...
forward.com/opinion/lett...
I missed this when it was first published two years ago but it is sadly perhaps even more relevant than it was the day it was published.
edition.cnn.com/2023/12/11/o...
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Opinion: After my grandmother’s ordeal, I have to speak out against sexual violence by Hamas on October 7 | CNN
As a teen, Alexi Ashe Meyers’ grandmother endured a horrific rape in Nazi-occupied Poland, where her family was also slaughtered. It is her grandmother’s memory that she invokes in seeking justice for...
edition.cnn.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:49 PM
I missed this when it was first published two years ago but it is sadly perhaps even more relevant than it was the day it was published.
edition.cnn.com/2023/12/11/o...
edition.cnn.com/2023/12/11/o...
“I really feel in many cases that I’ve made it possible for a book to succeed and also made it possible for a writer to go on writing,” Mr. Borchardt said in The Paris Review interview. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/o...
Georges Borchardt, 97, Dies; Literary Agent Championed Wiesel’s ‘Night’
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:04 PM
“I really feel in many cases that I’ve made it possible for a book to succeed and also made it possible for a writer to go on writing,” Mr. Borchardt said in The Paris Review interview. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/o...
"The Fiddler Plays," A Translation of Avrom Sutzkever's Poem
YouTube video by Yiddish Book Center
m.youtube.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:24 PM
"A fire heavily damaged Mississippi’s largest synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship in northeast Jackson that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights."
mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
Predawn fire reduces parts of Mississippi's largest synagogue to charred ruins - Mississippi Today
A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights...
mississippitoday.org
January 11, 2026 at 10:33 PM
"A fire heavily damaged Mississippi’s largest synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship in northeast Jackson that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights."
mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
I keep waiting for the day blue states just stop sending money to the federal government.
at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us
January 10, 2026 at 12:42 AM
I keep waiting for the day blue states just stop sending money to the federal government.
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The U.S. attack on Venezuela has led to a surge in antisemitic rhetoric online, as we’ve seen waves of antisemitism after most major news stories for years.
What separates this is not the occurrence, but the incredibly high engagement we're seeing online. Take this post with nearly 2 million views:
What separates this is not the occurrence, but the incredibly high engagement we're seeing online. Take this post with nearly 2 million views:
January 6, 2026 at 8:51 PM
The U.S. attack on Venezuela has led to a surge in antisemitic rhetoric online, as we’ve seen waves of antisemitism after most major news stories for years.
What separates this is not the occurrence, but the incredibly high engagement we're seeing online. Take this post with nearly 2 million views:
What separates this is not the occurrence, but the incredibly high engagement we're seeing online. Take this post with nearly 2 million views:
I love Stephen Colbert and don't want to see him go. But it's a bit disturbing that after Trump invades a foreign country and kidnaps its dictator without alerting congress, his first featured guest still has to be an actor, and not the journalist he has on later...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8KZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8KZ...
Did Maduro's Dancing Prompt Trump To Attack Venezuela? | No Regime Change | Another War For Oil
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
www.youtube.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:43 PM
I love Stephen Colbert and don't want to see him go. But it's a bit disturbing that after Trump invades a foreign country and kidnaps its dictator without alerting congress, his first featured guest still has to be an actor, and not the journalist he has on later...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8KZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8KZ...
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🚩 Israeli and Foreign Banks Block Aid to Gaza, Pushing Donors Into Crypto
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... 🧵
By @nirhasson.bsky.social
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By @nirhasson.bsky.social
January 5, 2026 at 2:07 PM
🚩 Israeli and Foreign Banks Block Aid to Gaza, Pushing Donors Into Crypto
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... 🧵
By @nirhasson.bsky.social
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... 🧵
By @nirhasson.bsky.social
It's funny how opinion pieces like this give away the particular bubbles their writers live in.
When Jews face violence, seemingly everyone in most of *my* circles says it's not only Israel's fault, but the fault of Jews for moving to Israel in the first place....
forward.com/opinion/7942...
When Jews face violence, seemingly everyone in most of *my* circles says it's not only Israel's fault, but the fault of Jews for moving to Israel in the first place....
forward.com/opinion/7942...
When Jews face violence, we're told to move to Israel. Does that really make us stronger?
Amid rising antisemitism, calls for Jews to retreat to Israel are coming from multiple corners. But the diaspora gives us security, too.
forward.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:21 PM
It's funny how opinion pieces like this give away the particular bubbles their writers live in.
When Jews face violence, seemingly everyone in most of *my* circles says it's not only Israel's fault, but the fault of Jews for moving to Israel in the first place....
forward.com/opinion/7942...
When Jews face violence, seemingly everyone in most of *my* circles says it's not only Israel's fault, but the fault of Jews for moving to Israel in the first place....
forward.com/opinion/7942...
After an academic mentor’s unwanted sexual advances, I stayed silent for decades. Now, I’m speaking out | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
After an academic mentor’s unwanted sexual advances, I stayed silent for decades. Now, I’m speaking out
“I saw myself as someone who had failed to act,” this scientist writes
www.science.org
December 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
After an academic mentor’s unwanted sexual advances, I stayed silent for decades. Now, I’m speaking out | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
My Chanukah/khanike poem, published a few years ago in 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millenium:
December 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
My Chanukah/khanike poem, published a few years ago in 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millenium:
I just came across this article from 2021 on Yiddish and Arabic, linked to on twitter by someone who just wrote a book on the Bund no less. It's incredibly frustrating that people can just publish whatever they want about Yiddish. People assume there are no experts.
newlinesmag.com/essays/yiddi...
newlinesmag.com/essays/yiddi...
Yiddish and Arabic Share an Uncommon Commonality
For the Zionists, Yiddish represented the weak, emasculated Jew of the shtetl. They saw it as feminine, backward and hybrid, a mixture of many languages. This stood in stark contrast with Hebrew, whic...
newlinesmag.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I just came across this article from 2021 on Yiddish and Arabic, linked to on twitter by someone who just wrote a book on the Bund no less. It's incredibly frustrating that people can just publish whatever they want about Yiddish. People assume there are no experts.
newlinesmag.com/essays/yiddi...
newlinesmag.com/essays/yiddi...
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Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country.
Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.
This is your democracy.
Hungary is Europe 🇪🇺
#DEFENDDEMOCRACY
3/5🧵
Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.
This is your democracy.
Hungary is Europe 🇪🇺
#DEFENDDEMOCRACY
3/5🧵
December 21, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country.
Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.
This is your democracy.
Hungary is Europe 🇪🇺
#DEFENDDEMOCRACY
3/5🧵
Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.
This is your democracy.
Hungary is Europe 🇪🇺
#DEFENDDEMOCRACY
3/5🧵
If you thought Paris, Texas was great and a great name for a town, today I learned that there is an Odessa, Texas. (Town, not film…At least not yet!)
December 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM
If you thought Paris, Texas was great and a great name for a town, today I learned that there is an Odessa, Texas. (Town, not film…At least not yet!)
I was glad to see an article in @forward.com yesterday that mentioned the Australian Jewish community’s connection to Yiddishkayt. I disagreed, however, with how that connection was characterized. Today, the Forward kindly published a letter I sent them about it.
forward.com/opinion/lett...
forward.com/opinion/lett...
Australia's Yiddish community is thriving, not reviving
Yiddish is thriving in Australia, but not revived. It has been sustained as a language there for more than 100 years.
forward.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I was glad to see an article in @forward.com yesterday that mentioned the Australian Jewish community’s connection to Yiddishkayt. I disagreed, however, with how that connection was characterized. Today, the Forward kindly published a letter I sent them about it.
forward.com/opinion/lett...
forward.com/opinion/lett...
To anyone who has been following antisemitism in Australia, the terror attack in Sydney is unsurprising.
December 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
To anyone who has been following antisemitism in Australia, the terror attack in Sydney is unsurprising.
These days, being an Americans means wondering when the day will come when it will be you or one of your loved ones caught in one of these shootings.
My heart is with my beautiful alma mater right now. We should treasure universities.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Police search for suspects after shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island – latest updates
Suspect or suspects at large as Ivy League university tells students to take shelter during second day of final exams
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
These days, being an Americans means wondering when the day will come when it will be you or one of your loved ones caught in one of these shootings.
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A+ trolling from Zelenskyy
December 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
A+ trolling from Zelenskyy
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I want to share a hopeful moment with you : remember that Kyiv coffee place that Russia hit 6 times - and they restored it all these 6 times ? Today I had a coffee there✨☕️
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I want to share a hopeful moment with you : remember that Kyiv coffee place that Russia hit 6 times - and they restored it all these 6 times ? Today I had a coffee there✨☕️
Reciting poetry that I wrote in Yiddish and about Yiddish in the only country in the world where #Yiddish is an official language.
So grateful for this opportunity to share my work in Sweden.
So grateful for this opportunity to share my work in Sweden.
December 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Reciting poetry that I wrote in Yiddish and about Yiddish in the only country in the world where #Yiddish is an official language.
So grateful for this opportunity to share my work in Sweden.
So grateful for this opportunity to share my work in Sweden.