zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל
@zaftlzussman.bsky.social
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 😌
shoutout to this guy whose side hustle is *squints* stealing horses from goyim
February 11, 2026 at 10:05 PM
shoutout to this guy whose side hustle is *squints* stealing horses from goyim
my goal for 2026 is to translate a system of a down song into yiddish
February 9, 2026 at 11:37 PM
my goal for 2026 is to translate a system of a down song into yiddish
being a yiddishist in philly rn is so sweet 😎
February 6, 2026 at 6:08 PM
being a yiddishist in philly rn is so sweet 😎
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We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
February 6, 2026 at 5:10 AM
We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
sad i can't translate the first one to "who the fuck is he?" to differentiate bw the other lines that don't have "zhe" in it
February 2, 2026 at 9:28 PM
sad i can't translate the first one to "who the fuck is he?" to differentiate bw the other lines that don't have "zhe" in it
i messed up a single syllable in a yiddish sentence the other day so instead of saying my mom was mad at me, i said my mom was in cheese with me....
February 2, 2026 at 7:33 PM
i messed up a single syllable in a yiddish sentence the other day so instead of saying my mom was mad at me, i said my mom was in cheese with me....
speaking another language is great. our uber driver who picked us up from the synagogue last night was playing christian music and i got to make a sarcastic comment vegn der heylekher muzik far undzer veg aheym
January 30, 2026 at 3:22 PM
speaking another language is great. our uber driver who picked us up from the synagogue last night was playing christian music and i got to make a sarcastic comment vegn der heylekher muzik far undzer veg aheym
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gonna start using this instead of "slop"
January 28, 2026 at 5:10 PM
gonna start using this instead of "slop"
gonna start using this instead of "slop"
January 28, 2026 at 5:10 PM
gonna start using this instead of "slop"
I signed up for a Yiddish penpal thingy and I got my penpal assigned....and it's someone I already know. LOL
January 27, 2026 at 4:53 PM
I signed up for a Yiddish penpal thingy and I got my penpal assigned....and it's someone I already know. LOL
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I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength
you don't become a martyr because you were a saint, you become a saint because you were martyred
I agree that we can’t make Alex Pretti a Benedictine monk because that’s a trap, but we can talk about the good things we did because people will see and hear them and think “I do those things too”
January 25, 2026 at 12:27 AM
I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength
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the nyt style section vs. der spiegel
January 24, 2026 at 11:20 PM
the nyt style section vs. der spiegel
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A lot of self described Christians seem to be banking on there not actually being a hell.
January 25, 2026 at 12:55 AM
A lot of self described Christians seem to be banking on there not actually being a hell.
been listening to a perfect circle's eMOTIVe (2004) lately. post-9/11 rock music is consistently the only thing that speaks to me in this moment...sad american society hasn't changed at all in the last 20 years.
January 23, 2026 at 3:37 PM
been listening to a perfect circle's eMOTIVe (2004) lately. post-9/11 rock music is consistently the only thing that speaks to me in this moment...sad american society hasn't changed at all in the last 20 years.
oooo i rly wanna take this yivo.org/SPR2026-Coll...
[SPR2026] A Walk through College Yiddish | YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Following Uriel Weinreich’s classic textbook College Yiddish, Dovid Braun offers a robust overview of the building blocks of Yiddish words and sentences.
yivo.org
January 22, 2026 at 4:38 AM
oooo i rly wanna take this yivo.org/SPR2026-Coll...
some yiddishists are really into bundist protest music to cope but me? i'm a child of 1970s jewish long island, the only thing that fills that niche for me is hard rock music <3
January 21, 2026 at 4:22 PM
some yiddishists are really into bundist protest music to cope but me? i'm a child of 1970s jewish long island, the only thing that fills that niche for me is hard rock music <3
sometimes i think i shouldnt blow weed smoke directly at my century old shabbos candlesticks from poland but then i remember that all my ancestors chainsmoked cigarettes. so i think theyre fine
January 20, 2026 at 3:49 PM
sometimes i think i shouldnt blow weed smoke directly at my century old shabbos candlesticks from poland but then i remember that all my ancestors chainsmoked cigarettes. so i think theyre fine
and that's on catholicism's impact!
January 16, 2026 at 9:58 PM
and that's on catholicism's impact!
reading and understanding transliterated yiddish is so much harder than just reading it in yiddish letters....
January 16, 2026 at 4:26 AM
reading and understanding transliterated yiddish is so much harder than just reading it in yiddish letters....
i finished empire of ai by karen hao which i would highly recommend. sam altman reminds me a lot of light yagami...extremely charming, manipulative in a way that's hard to pin down, and a compulsive liar who can seemingly wriggle his way out of everything. plus he has that murder notebook
January 14, 2026 at 3:43 PM
i finished empire of ai by karen hao which i would highly recommend. sam altman reminds me a lot of light yagami...extremely charming, manipulative in a way that's hard to pin down, and a compulsive liar who can seemingly wriggle his way out of everything. plus he has that murder notebook
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I was once pulled over driving to work. I hadn’t done anything. But this cop pulled me over and was, I cannot stress enough, FURIOUS. Shouting at me to not grab my phone, to not even LOOK at it, to look at HIM.
He just needed to yell and seethe at a woman.
www.salon.com/2026/01/12/i...
He just needed to yell and seethe at a woman.
www.salon.com/2026/01/12/i...
In Renee Good’s killing, ICE’s misogyny isn’t a side note—it’s the point
The words of the man who shot Renee Good speak to the Trump administration's fixation on masculinity.
www.salon.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:55 AM
I was once pulled over driving to work. I hadn’t done anything. But this cop pulled me over and was, I cannot stress enough, FURIOUS. Shouting at me to not grab my phone, to not even LOOK at it, to look at HIM.
He just needed to yell and seethe at a woman.
www.salon.com/2026/01/12/i...
He just needed to yell and seethe at a woman.
www.salon.com/2026/01/12/i...
lol had lunch with a well-known yiddish theatre actor who then revealed to me he was deeply racist, islamophobic, and anti-feminist. my list of people not to work with in the future grows by the day
January 13, 2026 at 12:14 AM
lol had lunch with a well-known yiddish theatre actor who then revealed to me he was deeply racist, islamophobic, and anti-feminist. my list of people not to work with in the future grows by the day
Eating ridiculously good in NYC this weekend :) food described in alt text
January 10, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Eating ridiculously good in NYC this weekend :) food described in alt text