Saul Noam Zaritt
@saulnoamz.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Yiddish, The Ohio State University / A Taytsh Manifesto: https://www.fordhampress.com/9781531509170/a-taytsh-manifesto / new project: shund.org
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What a privilege to be read so thoroughly and so generously, with critique and shared responsibility—for the field and for much else beyond the field. A taytsh forum!
ingeveb.org/issues/forum...
ingeveb.org/issues/forum...
This winter take a break with Sholem Aleichem and me! Take my course on the Tevye stories at Roundtable with the 92nd street Y.
roundtable.org/live-courses...
Or, as Tevye puts it, “And now let’s talk about something more cheerful. Tell me, what’s the news about the cholera in Odessa?”
roundtable.org/live-courses...
Or, as Tevye puts it, “And now let’s talk about something more cheerful. Tell me, what’s the news about the cholera in Odessa?”
Roundtable by The 92nd Street Y, New York — Live, Online Classes
Roundtable is live, in-the-moment online classes with respected and passionate experts who give you a place at the table to ask questions, join a discussion, and satisfy your curious mind.
roundtable.org
September 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM
This winter take a break with Sholem Aleichem and me! Take my course on the Tevye stories at Roundtable with the 92nd street Y.
roundtable.org/live-courses...
Or, as Tevye puts it, “And now let’s talk about something more cheerful. Tell me, what’s the news about the cholera in Odessa?”
roundtable.org/live-courses...
Or, as Tevye puts it, “And now let’s talk about something more cheerful. Tell me, what’s the news about the cholera in Odessa?”
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Come work with us!
In geveb is seeking a new member of our editorial staff for the 2025-2026 publishing year.
To apply: please submit a cover letter and resume by August 19, 2025 to info@ingeveb.org. Subject line: “managing editor”.
Details here: ingeveb.org/blog/in-geve...
In geveb is seeking a new member of our editorial staff for the 2025-2026 publishing year.
To apply: please submit a cover letter and resume by August 19, 2025 to info@ingeveb.org. Subject line: “managing editor”.
Details here: ingeveb.org/blog/in-geve...
July 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Come work with us!
In geveb is seeking a new member of our editorial staff for the 2025-2026 publishing year.
To apply: please submit a cover letter and resume by August 19, 2025 to info@ingeveb.org. Subject line: “managing editor”.
Details here: ingeveb.org/blog/in-geve...
In geveb is seeking a new member of our editorial staff for the 2025-2026 publishing year.
To apply: please submit a cover letter and resume by August 19, 2025 to info@ingeveb.org. Subject line: “managing editor”.
Details here: ingeveb.org/blog/in-geve...
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A brilliant review of On Revival is published in In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. Thank you @saulnoamz.bsky.social and @ingeveb.bsky.social
@pennpress.bsky.social
ingeveb.org/articles/yid...
@pennpress.bsky.social
ingeveb.org/articles/yid...
Yiddish Revival, Hebrew Revival: A Review | In geveb
Thinking beyond notions of origin, nativity, and possession in language, Henig offers a reflection on the paradoxes of ethnolinguistic nationalism and what it m
ingeveb.org
June 8, 2025 at 8:12 AM
A brilliant review of On Revival is published in In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. Thank you @saulnoamz.bsky.social and @ingeveb.bsky.social
@pennpress.bsky.social
ingeveb.org/articles/yid...
@pennpress.bsky.social
ingeveb.org/articles/yid...
In which I think again about Hebrew and Yiddish, about the living-dead, about the violence of sovereignty and nationalism, and what it might mean to "walk on the wild side," if only that were possible–all through Roni Henig's fantastic book.
ingeveb.org/articles/yid...
ingeveb.org/articles/yid...
Yiddish Revival, Hebrew Revival: A Review | In geveb
Thinking beyond notions of origin, nativity, and possession in language, Henig offers a reflection on the paradoxes of ethnolinguistic nationalism and what it m
ingeveb.org
June 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
In which I think again about Hebrew and Yiddish, about the living-dead, about the violence of sovereignty and nationalism, and what it might mean to "walk on the wild side," if only that were possible–all through Roni Henig's fantastic book.
ingeveb.org/articles/yid...
ingeveb.org/articles/yid...
I definitely forgot to promote this... but if you're in Chicago and want to hear about Lipton Tea and Yehoyash's bible translation then you should probably come to my talk at 4pm today.
complit.uchicago.edu/saul-zaritt-...
complit.uchicago.edu/saul-zaritt-...
May 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I definitely forgot to promote this... but if you're in Chicago and want to hear about Lipton Tea and Yehoyash's bible translation then you should probably come to my talk at 4pm today.
complit.uchicago.edu/saul-zaritt-...
complit.uchicago.edu/saul-zaritt-...
I'm teaching an online class this July, all about the short story and Jewish American writing—a return to some parts of my first book and plenty of fun with Delmore Schwartz, Grace Paley, and Saul Bellow.
(I promise you that Delmore and Grace will win out the day.)
Registration link below...
(I promise you that Delmore and Grace will win out the day.)
Registration link below...
May 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I'm teaching an online class this July, all about the short story and Jewish American writing—a return to some parts of my first book and plenty of fun with Delmore Schwartz, Grace Paley, and Saul Bellow.
(I promise you that Delmore and Grace will win out the day.)
Registration link below...
(I promise you that Delmore and Grace will win out the day.)
Registration link below...
I am humbled to be among this year's Berlin Prize fellows, joining a wide-ranging group of scholars, writers, and artists (including the yidishist in hiding, Ross Perlin).
The move to Ohio will be delayed to spend the fall on the shores of the Wannsee reading Yiddish trash...
The move to Ohio will be delayed to spend the fall on the shores of the Wannsee reading Yiddish trash...
May 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I am humbled to be among this year's Berlin Prize fellows, joining a wide-ranging group of scholars, writers, and artists (including the yidishist in hiding, Ross Perlin).
The move to Ohio will be delayed to spend the fall on the shores of the Wannsee reading Yiddish trash...
The move to Ohio will be delayed to spend the fall on the shores of the Wannsee reading Yiddish trash...
The taytsh campaign continues! I'll be giving a zoom talk on Wednesday about the book through the Southern California Workers Circle (Arbeter ring).
Registration link below...
Registration link below...
May 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The taytsh campaign continues! I'll be giving a zoom talk on Wednesday about the book through the Southern California Workers Circle (Arbeter ring).
Registration link below...
Registration link below...
In the midst of all the terror and looming precarity, something to look forward to, professionally and personally: come July 1 I'll be an assistant professor of Yiddish and Ashkenazic Culture at The Ohio State University.
March 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
In the midst of all the terror and looming precarity, something to look forward to, professionally and personally: come July 1 I'll be an assistant professor of Yiddish and Ashkenazic Culture at The Ohio State University.
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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!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvhT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvhT...
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...
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Call for Submissions: Yiddish Science Fiction!!
We invite submissions to a special issue of In geveb on “Yiddish Science Fiction" with guest editors Alona Bach, Sebastian Schulman, and Dalia Wolfson.
Submissions are due April 28. See the link for further details.
https://buff.ly/416QaB1
We invite submissions to a special issue of In geveb on “Yiddish Science Fiction" with guest editors Alona Bach, Sebastian Schulman, and Dalia Wolfson.
Submissions are due April 28. See the link for further details.
https://buff.ly/416QaB1
February 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Call for Submissions: Yiddish Science Fiction!!
We invite submissions to a special issue of In geveb on “Yiddish Science Fiction" with guest editors Alona Bach, Sebastian Schulman, and Dalia Wolfson.
Submissions are due April 28. See the link for further details.
https://buff.ly/416QaB1
We invite submissions to a special issue of In geveb on “Yiddish Science Fiction" with guest editors Alona Bach, Sebastian Schulman, and Dalia Wolfson.
Submissions are due April 28. See the link for further details.
https://buff.ly/416QaB1
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What other social and technological futures have we imagined, feared, hoped for—af yidish? Help us imagine, remember, and consider alternative possibilities by submitting to @ingeveb.bsky.social 's special issue on #Yiddish #scifi.
Full CFP: ingeveb.org/blog/call-fo...
Full CFP: ingeveb.org/blog/call-fo...
Call for Submissions: Yiddish Science Fiction!!
We invite submissions to a special issue of In geveb on “Yiddish Science Fiction" with guest editors Alona Bach, Sebastian Schulman, and Dalia Wolfson.
Submissions are due April 28. See the link for further details.
https://buff.ly/416QaB1
We invite submissions to a special issue of In geveb on “Yiddish Science Fiction" with guest editors Alona Bach, Sebastian Schulman, and Dalia Wolfson.
Submissions are due April 28. See the link for further details.
https://buff.ly/416QaB1
February 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
What other social and technological futures have we imagined, feared, hoped for—af yidish? Help us imagine, remember, and consider alternative possibilities by submitting to @ingeveb.bsky.social 's special issue on #Yiddish #scifi.
Full CFP: ingeveb.org/blog/call-fo...
Full CFP: ingeveb.org/blog/call-fo...
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Introducing! מיר שטעלן פֿאָר!
The keynote panel of #Farbindungen25 Bad Yiddish will feature Saul Noam Zaritt and Natan M. Meir, moderated by Jacqueline Krass. Register today, link in bio!
The keynote panel of #Farbindungen25 Bad Yiddish will feature Saul Noam Zaritt and Natan M. Meir, moderated by Jacqueline Krass. Register today, link in bio!
January 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Introducing! מיר שטעלן פֿאָר!
The keynote panel of #Farbindungen25 Bad Yiddish will feature Saul Noam Zaritt and Natan M. Meir, moderated by Jacqueline Krass. Register today, link in bio!
The keynote panel of #Farbindungen25 Bad Yiddish will feature Saul Noam Zaritt and Natan M. Meir, moderated by Jacqueline Krass. Register today, link in bio!
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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
"We must not close ranks and presume to heal a private family affair. I submit that we must seek out difference, not mourn it as something to be rendered dead and buried. Taytsh instructs us to sit with the ghosts, who are not and cannot be satisfied,... " [1/2]
January 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
"We must not close ranks and presume to heal a private family affair. I submit that we must seek out difference, not mourn it as something to be rendered dead and buried. Taytsh instructs us to sit with the ghosts, who are not and cannot be satisfied,... " [1/2]
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We're pleased to present A Taytsh Forum!
We at In geveb have invited a group of Yiddish Studies scholars to offer responses to Saul Noam Zaritt's A Taytsh Manifesto. These responses, as varied and complex as A Taytsh Manifesto itself, are followed by a reply from Zaritt.
https://buff.ly/4h8XfaL
We at In geveb have invited a group of Yiddish Studies scholars to offer responses to Saul Noam Zaritt's A Taytsh Manifesto. These responses, as varied and complex as A Taytsh Manifesto itself, are followed by a reply from Zaritt.
https://buff.ly/4h8XfaL
January 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
We're pleased to present A Taytsh Forum!
We at In geveb have invited a group of Yiddish Studies scholars to offer responses to Saul Noam Zaritt's A Taytsh Manifesto. These responses, as varied and complex as A Taytsh Manifesto itself, are followed by a reply from Zaritt.
https://buff.ly/4h8XfaL
We at In geveb have invited a group of Yiddish Studies scholars to offer responses to Saul Noam Zaritt's A Taytsh Manifesto. These responses, as varied and complex as A Taytsh Manifesto itself, are followed by a reply from Zaritt.
https://buff.ly/4h8XfaL
What a privilege to be read so thoroughly and so generously, with critique and shared responsibility—for the field and for much else beyond the field. A taytsh forum!
ingeveb.org/issues/forum...
ingeveb.org/issues/forum...
January 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
What a privilege to be read so thoroughly and so generously, with critique and shared responsibility—for the field and for much else beyond the field. A taytsh forum!
ingeveb.org/issues/forum...
ingeveb.org/issues/forum...
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Marina Mayorski reviews Ayelet Brinn's A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press:
"A Revolution in Type offers a timely and forceful contribution to the study of Jewish history, culture, and gender."
https://buff.ly/3DiHj76
"A Revolution in Type offers a timely and forceful contribution to the study of Jewish history, culture, and gender."
https://buff.ly/3DiHj76
December 16, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Marina Mayorski reviews Ayelet Brinn's A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press:
"A Revolution in Type offers a timely and forceful contribution to the study of Jewish history, culture, and gender."
https://buff.ly/3DiHj76
"A Revolution in Type offers a timely and forceful contribution to the study of Jewish history, culture, and gender."
https://buff.ly/3DiHj76
Got my copy of @ronihenig.bsky.social ‘s book and you should too. Stay tuned for a spring event for our books together…
December 12, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Got my copy of @ronihenig.bsky.social ‘s book and you should too. Stay tuned for a spring event for our books together…
Yiddish digital humanities and taytsh, a discussion by Jonah Lubin:
"If the Oytser is a forerunner to Yiddish DH, with all its obsessive prescriptivism, then how might we imagine taytsh DH? What does it mean to taytsh label, without lehavdils?"
articulations.temporal-communities.de/contribution...
"If the Oytser is a forerunner to Yiddish DH, with all its obsessive prescriptivism, then how might we imagine taytsh DH? What does it mean to taytsh label, without lehavdils?"
articulations.temporal-communities.de/contribution...
December 12, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Yiddish digital humanities and taytsh, a discussion by Jonah Lubin:
"If the Oytser is a forerunner to Yiddish DH, with all its obsessive prescriptivism, then how might we imagine taytsh DH? What does it mean to taytsh label, without lehavdils?"
articulations.temporal-communities.de/contribution...
"If the Oytser is a forerunner to Yiddish DH, with all its obsessive prescriptivism, then how might we imagine taytsh DH? What does it mean to taytsh label, without lehavdils?"
articulations.temporal-communities.de/contribution...
People often ask me what's going on at Harvard. Here's one report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...
November 21, 2024 at 2:06 PM
People often ask me what's going on at Harvard. Here's one report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...
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Just three more days to send in your proposals for #Farbindungen25 "Bad Yiddish / בעד ייִדיש"!
More info & submit: www.farbindungen.com/2025
📷: Di varhayt (29 June 1915), p. 3.
More info & submit: www.farbindungen.com/2025
📷: Di varhayt (29 June 1915), p. 3.
November 12, 2024 at 11:26 PM
Just three more days to send in your proposals for #Farbindungen25 "Bad Yiddish / בעד ייִדיש"!
More info & submit: www.farbindungen.com/2025
📷: Di varhayt (29 June 1915), p. 3.
More info & submit: www.farbindungen.com/2025
📷: Di varhayt (29 June 1915), p. 3.
Hello new followers—I’m a scholar of Yiddish studies and I’ve written two books, one about Jewish American writers and their dealings with the concept of world literature and the other, just out in October, about Yiddish and translation. It’s a manifesto!
November 11, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Hello new followers—I’m a scholar of Yiddish studies and I’ve written two books, one about Jewish American writers and their dealings with the concept of world literature and the other, just out in October, about Yiddish and translation. It’s a manifesto!
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A pair of keynote speakers on Bad #Yiddish who are (unthematically) excellent! From shtetl to shund, looking forward to hearing about how and why Yiddish writers, speakers, and genres get coded as "bad."
(Proposals for #Farbindungen25 will be open until November 15th: www.farbindungen.com/2025)
(Proposals for #Farbindungen25 will be open until November 15th: www.farbindungen.com/2025)
I’m honored to be one of the keynote speakers, alongside Natan Meir, for the Farbindungen conference @farbindungen.bsky.social
Tune in for plenty of talk about shund (trash) and all the bad Yiddish you can take!
Tune in for plenty of talk about shund (trash) and all the bad Yiddish you can take!
October 31, 2024 at 6:04 PM
A pair of keynote speakers on Bad #Yiddish who are (unthematically) excellent! From shtetl to shund, looking forward to hearing about how and why Yiddish writers, speakers, and genres get coded as "bad."
(Proposals for #Farbindungen25 will be open until November 15th: www.farbindungen.com/2025)
(Proposals for #Farbindungen25 will be open until November 15th: www.farbindungen.com/2025)
I’m honored to be one of the keynote speakers, alongside Natan Meir, for the Farbindungen conference @farbindungen.bsky.social
Tune in for plenty of talk about shund (trash) and all the bad Yiddish you can take!
Tune in for plenty of talk about shund (trash) and all the bad Yiddish you can take!
October 29, 2024 at 7:59 PM
I’m honored to be one of the keynote speakers, alongside Natan Meir, for the Farbindungen conference @farbindungen.bsky.social
Tune in for plenty of talk about shund (trash) and all the bad Yiddish you can take!
Tune in for plenty of talk about shund (trash) and all the bad Yiddish you can take!