My article, "Yentl and Teibele Onstage: Dramatic Adaptations of I. B. Singer’s Work for a 1970s American Audience," now out in the Studies in American Jewish Literature special issue on "THE MULTIPLE WORLDS OF ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER: NEW CRITICAL APPROACHES," co-edited by Jan Schwarz & Zehavit Stern.

London music fans! Zoe Aqua (fiddler, USA) will be performing a solo set of klezmer and Transylvanian music with some special guests this Sunday 16 Nov at DB Music (in Stoke Newington). 2:30 pm doors, 3pm concert. £8. @klezmershack.bsky.social

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This December you can join me at Yiddish New York for my session "Dancing with Stories." We'll be doing two of my favorite things – close reading a literary dance scene (in translation) and learning the dance it describes–to the live accompaniment of the amazing Christina Crowder.

Congratulations to the new @uclhjs.bsky.social BA graduates and to all of us for making it to @artshumsucl.bsky.social graduation despite the Tube strikes. (I’m also amazed that Marston Events sourced full @upenn.edu regalia from across the pond for my first graduation as academic staff.)

Honored to be teaching @klezkanada.bsky.social this Summer, the 30th anniversary of the annual retreat! I’ll be giving several talks about my dance and theatre research from August 18-24 in Lantier, Quebec. klezkanada.org

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There are lots of ways to support @ingeveb.bsky.social. You could donate to their 10th anniversary fundraising campaign. You could also make yourself an extremely nerdy office reading nook for your imaginary second career as a Yiddish influencer. donorbox.org/tsen-yor
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@lauraleibman.bsky.social’s “Once We Were Slaves” (@oxfordup.bsky.social) has arrived, in time for Passover.

Honored to be speaking about my translation of Tea Arciszewska's Yiddish play "Miryeml" next Tuesday 4 March at the Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp. @uclhjs.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social

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Thanks to @joannaraisbeck.bsky.social for locating the perfect picture of a dreamy Friedrich Schiller gazing into the middle distance for my Zoom talk at Wednesday's launch event for Polin 37.

I'll be speaking about why and how East European Jews thought Schiller could teach them about love.

Tomorrow at noon I'll be speaking about my translation of Tea Arciszewska's "Miryeml" at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, lunch included). The talk is entitled "Mourning a Lost Future: Miryeml, a Yiddish Drama of Children in Wartime."
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The paperback copies of my book “It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity” have arrived (and are looking gorgeous)!

I’m delighted that my book will be more accessible to a broader audience. @stanfordpress.bsky.social sup.org/books/title/... pic.twitter.com/VFkL0X2FIQht...

Yiddish Vinkel makes such beautiful Ukrainian Yiddish swag (including the wrapping). Check out her online store and send some sweetness to the Yiddishists in your life. @ingeveb.bsky.social linktr.ee/yiddishvinkl

Thrilled to receive my copy of “Women on the Yiddish Stage (ed. Alyssa Quint and Amanda Miryem-Khaye Seigel), with my article on Judith Berg, choreographer of the film The Dybbuk. In this article, I reconstruct her modern dance career in 1930s Warsaw. @zanykirz.bsky.social @joelberkowitz.bsky.social