Sarah Biskowitz
@sarahbiskowitz.bsky.social
Yiddishist. Feminist. Jewish cultural activist & educator. She/her.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
So excited for the fifth iteration of the @farbindungen.bsky.social conference! Accepting paper proposals from graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and early career professionals!
We're thrilled to announce our theme and dates for 2026!
מר פֿרײען זיך זײער צו מעלדן אונזער טעמע און דאַטעס פֿאַרן קומענדיקן יאָר!
מר פֿרײען זיך זײער צו מעלדן אונזער טעמע און דאַטעס פֿאַרן קומענדיקן יאָר!
November 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
So excited for the fifth iteration of the @farbindungen.bsky.social conference! Accepting paper proposals from graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and early career professionals!
Ruby Zuckerman and I joined The Shmooze podcast to talk about the Great Jewish Books Summer Program:
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Reflecting on Great Jewish Books Summer Program | Yiddish Book Center
Sarah Biskowitz and Ruby Zuckerman joined The Shmooze to talk about the Great Jewish Books Summer Program. Sarah and Ruby, alums of the program, are back at the Yiddish Book Center as RAs for this yea...
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August 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Ruby Zuckerman and I joined The Shmooze podcast to talk about the Great Jewish Books Summer Program:
www.yiddishbookcenter.org/reflecting-g...
www.yiddishbookcenter.org/reflecting-g...
It was a dream come true to work as an RA at the @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social 's Great Jewish Books high school program, which had ignited my own love for Yiddish when I participated in 2016. I met and taught incredible teens, alongside my wonderful co-RAs (pictured below)!
August 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
It was a dream come true to work as an RA at the @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social 's Great Jewish Books high school program, which had ignited my own love for Yiddish when I participated in 2016. I met and taught incredible teens, alongside my wonderful co-RAs (pictured below)!
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Registration is now open for #Yiddish classes and #klezmer workshops at the Workers Circle. Whether you’re a beginner or advanced, there’s something for everyone this summer. Don’t miss your chance to make this summer better with Yiddish. Register today: shorturl.at/kVg8D
June 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Registration is now open for #Yiddish classes and #klezmer workshops at the Workers Circle. Whether you’re a beginner or advanced, there’s something for everyone this summer. Don’t miss your chance to make this summer better with Yiddish. Register today: shorturl.at/kVg8D
I will be teaching a beginner Yiddish class this summer on Zoom for the Workers Circle. Tuesdays 6:30 – 8:00 PM. June 24, July 1, 8, 15, 22. Please spread the word, and let me know if you have any questions!
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May 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I will be teaching a beginner Yiddish class this summer on Zoom for the Workers Circle. Tuesdays 6:30 – 8:00 PM. June 24, July 1, 8, 15, 22. Please spread the word, and let me know if you have any questions!
www.circle.org/.../p/beginn...
www.circle.org/.../p/beginn...
Moderated my first in-person book talk! It was a pleasure to discuss An American Girl Anthology: Finding Ourselves in the Pleasant Company Universe with co-editors @justineodashs.bsky.social and @kchysmith.bsky.social at @portersqbooks.bsky.social in Cambridge on Friday.
May 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Moderated my first in-person book talk! It was a pleasure to discuss An American Girl Anthology: Finding Ourselves in the Pleasant Company Universe with co-editors @justineodashs.bsky.social and @kchysmith.bsky.social at @portersqbooks.bsky.social in Cambridge on Friday.
Yesterday, I took my students from my Boston Workers Circle and Lehrhaus beginner Yiddish classes to the @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social, where I first learned Yiddish. It was a dream come true for me as a teacher! We enjoyed a great tour of the museum and the special collections vault.
May 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Yesterday, I took my students from my Boston Workers Circle and Lehrhaus beginner Yiddish classes to the @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social, where I first learned Yiddish. It was a dream come true for me as a teacher! We enjoyed a great tour of the museum and the special collections vault.
Happy 10th birthday to @ingeveb.bsky.social ! I have had the pleasure of publishing several pieces with In geveb since 2021. Please consider contributing to help In geveb continue to support and compensate writers and provide their excellent free content to us all!
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Join us in celebrating In geveb’s 10 year anniversary and help us launch our second decade with a donation to this campaign in honor of four people who have played key roles in making In geveb what it...
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May 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Happy 10th birthday to @ingeveb.bsky.social ! I have had the pleasure of publishing several pieces with In geveb since 2021. Please consider contributing to help In geveb continue to support and compensate writers and provide their excellent free content to us all!
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This academic year, I gave various talks on feminist Yiddish culture and literature to student groups at Mount Holyoke, MIT, and Wellesley. I also spoke twice at Brandeis, once for the Reform chavurah and once for the Yiddish class. It was a pleasure to meet so many brilliant college students!
April 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This academic year, I gave various talks on feminist Yiddish culture and literature to student groups at Mount Holyoke, MIT, and Wellesley. I also spoke twice at Brandeis, once for the Reform chavurah and once for the Yiddish class. It was a pleasure to meet so many brilliant college students!
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Last night, I taught the final class of my series of six beginner Yiddish language classes at Lehrhaus in Cambridge, MA. It was a lively, wonderful group!
April 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Last night, I taught the final class of my series of six beginner Yiddish language classes at Lehrhaus in Cambridge, MA. It was a lively, wonderful group!
My interview for @lilithmagazine.bsky.social about the young, grassroots Sefardi culture club in my neighborhood :)
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Sefardi Folk Culture Grows in Cambridge
Sefardi Jewish culture boasts beautiful music, delicious food, and a fascinating language, Judeo-Spanish (also known as Ladino). Unfortunately, in the US, mainstream Jewish communities often erase …
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March 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
My interview for @lilithmagazine.bsky.social about the young, grassroots Sefardi culture club in my neighborhood :)
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lilith.org/2025/03/sefa...
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A wonderful report from #Farbindungen25 Bad Yiddish courtesy of @ingeveb.bsky.social! Thanks to Judy Goldstein for taking the time to write this wonderful piece!
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Farbindungen 2025: Dispatches from Bad Yiddishland | In geveb
Farbindungen 2025 was a celebration of Yiddish in all its messy, defiant, and ever-evolving forms.
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March 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
A wonderful report from #Farbindungen25 Bad Yiddish courtesy of @ingeveb.bsky.social! Thanks to Judy Goldstein for taking the time to write this wonderful piece!
ingeveb.org/blog/farbind...
ingeveb.org/blog/farbind...
So proud of @farbindungen.bsky.social and thanks, Judy, for this lovely review!
Judy Goldstein on the 2025 Farbindungen "Bad Yiddish" Conference:
"Farbindungen 2025 was a celebration of Yiddish in all its messy, defiant, and ever-evolving forms ...[it] embraced the so-called “bad,” the imperfect, the overlooked, and the experimental."
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"Farbindungen 2025 was a celebration of Yiddish in all its messy, defiant, and ever-evolving forms ...[it] embraced the so-called “bad,” the imperfect, the overlooked, and the experimental."
ingeveb.org/blog/farbind...
March 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
So proud of @farbindungen.bsky.social and thanks, Judy, for this lovely review!
Conducted my eighteenth Wexler Oral History interview (and third entirely in Yiddish) as a field fellow for the @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social ! Pictured here with the fabulous Leye, a former Boston Workers Circle Yiddish teacher.
March 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Conducted my eighteenth Wexler Oral History interview (and third entirely in Yiddish) as a field fellow for the @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social ! Pictured here with the fabulous Leye, a former Boston Workers Circle Yiddish teacher.
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It's been 2 weeks since #Farbindungen25 Bad Yiddish, and we're still thinking about all of the amazing panels and talks! You can now watch the incredible keynote address, by @saulnoamz.bsky.social and Natan M. Meir, available on our YouTube channel!
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Farbindungen 2025: Keynote Panel w/ Saul Noam Zaritt and Natan M. Meir
YouTube video by Farbindungen Yiddish Conference
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February 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
It's been 2 weeks since #Farbindungen25 Bad Yiddish, and we're still thinking about all of the amazing panels and talks! You can now watch the incredible keynote address, by @saulnoamz.bsky.social and Natan M. Meir, available on our YouTube channel!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvhT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvhT...
A shmueskrayz with the Los Angeles Yiddishists from a couple weeks ago :)
February 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
A shmueskrayz with the Los Angeles Yiddishists from a couple weeks ago :)
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My daughter is a fellow in this year's #RisingVoices cohort and has so appreciated how the program has helped her develop as a writer, an activist, and a feminist.
Know a kiddo who wants to develop their literary voice? @jwaonline.bsky.social is accepting apps through 4/1. jwa.org/risingvoices
Know a kiddo who wants to develop their literary voice? @jwaonline.bsky.social is accepting apps through 4/1. jwa.org/risingvoices
February 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
My daughter is a fellow in this year's #RisingVoices cohort and has so appreciated how the program has helped her develop as a writer, an activist, and a feminist.
Know a kiddo who wants to develop their literary voice? @jwaonline.bsky.social is accepting apps through 4/1. jwa.org/risingvoices
Know a kiddo who wants to develop their literary voice? @jwaonline.bsky.social is accepting apps through 4/1. jwa.org/risingvoices
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#Farbindungen25 panel 1 — underworlds, shund, and disappointments.
February 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
#Farbindungen25 panel 1 — underworlds, shund, and disappointments.
It was such an amazing time organizing @farbindungen.bsky.social 2026 with these incredible people!
February 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
It was such an amazing time organizing @farbindungen.bsky.social 2026 with these incredible people!
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Everybody get in we're going to talk about trans and nonbinary people learning Yiddish
February 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Everybody get in we're going to talk about trans and nonbinary people learning Yiddish
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If you aren’t at #Farbindungen2025, you’re missing the Yiddish history of Crisco, Yiddish erotic lesbian poetry, and Yiddish as a fandom 🔥
@farbindungen.bsky.social
@farbindungen.bsky.social
February 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
If you aren’t at #Farbindungen2025, you’re missing the Yiddish history of Crisco, Yiddish erotic lesbian poetry, and Yiddish as a fandom 🔥
@farbindungen.bsky.social
@farbindungen.bsky.social
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As Jews, we are obligated to welcome the stranger and protect the vulnerable -- and the Administrations's mass deportation efforts undermine these very values.
January 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
As Jews, we are obligated to welcome the stranger and protect the vulnerable -- and the Administrations's mass deportation efforts undermine these very values.
Made a Yiddishist starter pack...let me know if I should add anyone :) go.bsky.app/B3QwrtA
January 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Made a Yiddishist starter pack...let me know if I should add anyone :) go.bsky.app/B3QwrtA