Wojciech Tworek
@wtworek.bsky.social
Assistant prof at Taube Dept of Jewish Studies, Wrocław
א לוסטיקער פעסימיסט
א לוסטיקער פעסימיסט
1 anthology
2 editors
4 years of work
15 translators
48 chapters
930 pages of stories
2 editors
4 years of work
15 translators
48 chapters
930 pages of stories
September 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
1 anthology
2 editors
4 years of work
15 translators
48 chapters
930 pages of stories
2 editors
4 years of work
15 translators
48 chapters
930 pages of stories
wieści idą, że antologia wyjechała z drukarni! 25/09 w księgarniach!
September 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
wieści idą, że antologia wyjechała z drukarni! 25/09 w księgarniach!
August 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
must read!!
A groundbreaking exploration of the cultural contributions of Russian-speaking immigrants to Israel over the past thirty years, Dual Diaspora by Alex Moshkin investigates how writers, filmmakers, and visual artists reconcile their Soviet past with their Israeli present.
Out now! buff.ly/yUkkP9l
Out now! buff.ly/yUkkP9l
August 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
must read!!
after over three years of collective work, our anthology of hasidic stories is almost out! 800 pp of stories from 1814 to 2022, transl. from hebrew and yiddish, with a book-length intro to hasidic history and lit., as part of the national library series!
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Opowieści chasydzkie. Antologia - Wydawnictwo Ossolineum
Chasydyzm zrodził się na południowo-wschodnich kresach Rzeczypospolitej w niewielkiej grupie kabalistów i mistyków i szybko stał się jednym z największych ruchów religijnych wśród wschodnioeuropejskic...
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July 7, 2025 at 11:09 AM
after over three years of collective work, our anthology of hasidic stories is almost out! 800 pp of stories from 1814 to 2022, transl. from hebrew and yiddish, with a book-length intro to hasidic history and lit., as part of the national library series!
wydawnictwo.ossolineum.pl/produkt/opow...
wydawnictwo.ossolineum.pl/produkt/opow...
July 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
promień słońca w ogólnie ciulate czasy: razem z Kasią Taczyńską, אחת ויחידה, przetłumaczyłem Bajki o komunizmie Slavenki Drakulić. I powiem, że opowieści kota Jaruzelskiego, kreta z DDRu czy papugi Tity to cudeńko, שיח שרפי קודש ממש. preorder w wydawnictwie KEW. חיות פון אלע לעמדער-פאראייניקט זיך!!
June 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
promień słońca w ogólnie ciulate czasy: razem z Kasią Taczyńską, אחת ויחידה, przetłumaczyłem Bajki o komunizmie Slavenki Drakulić. I powiem, że opowieści kota Jaruzelskiego, kreta z DDRu czy papugi Tity to cudeńko, שיח שרפי קודש ממש. preorder w wydawnictwie KEW. חיות פון אלע לעמדער-פאראייניקט זיך!!
dogs and kitties of Poznań
June 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
dogs and kitties of Poznań
ליובאוויטש בזעיר אנפין
June 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
ליובאוויטש בזעיר אנפין
Reposted by Wojciech Tworek
Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2025), receives a generous and critical review from my friend and colleague @wtworek.bsky.social
ingeveb.org/articles/rev...
ingeveb.org/articles/rev...
Rethinking Chabad Historiography: A Review Essay on Eli Rubin's Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity | In geveb
While not the first, Rubin’s book is among the very few that aim to address the history of the Chabad movement as a whole, placing its major figures in dialogue
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May 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2025), receives a generous and critical review from my friend and colleague @wtworek.bsky.social
ingeveb.org/articles/rev...
ingeveb.org/articles/rev...
Reposted by Wojciech Tworek
#CfP: IV International Conference on Jews in Galicia. Histories, Topographies, and Texts in Kraków on October 20-21, 2025 | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/en/news/iv-i...
Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2025
Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2025
April 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
#CfP: IV International Conference on Jews in Galicia. Histories, Topographies, and Texts in Kraków on October 20-21, 2025 | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/en/news/iv-i...
Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2025
Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2025
April 8, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Reposted by Wojciech Tworek
Third day of the workshop is about to start and it’s already been such a rich, rewarding experience. Brilliant conversations, generous minds and more to come! #ModernMediterranean @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social #EAJS @ncn.gov.pl @unigroningen.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social #UniversityofWarsaw
April 8, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Third day of the workshop is about to start and it’s already been such a rich, rewarding experience. Brilliant conversations, generous minds and more to come! #ModernMediterranean @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social #EAJS @ncn.gov.pl @unigroningen.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social #UniversityofWarsaw
Reposted by Wojciech Tworek
3 scholarships for the MA Jewish Studies at UCL, each worth £ 4,000:
- Hyman Hurwitz Scholarship in Jewish Languages
- Ada Rapoport-Albert Scholarship in Jewish Religious Life
- The Hebrew and Jewish Studies Scholarship in Jewish History and Politics
www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
- Hyman Hurwitz Scholarship in Jewish Languages
- Ada Rapoport-Albert Scholarship in Jewish Religious Life
- The Hebrew and Jewish Studies Scholarship in Jewish History and Politics
www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
Study
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March 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
3 scholarships for the MA Jewish Studies at UCL, each worth £ 4,000:
- Hyman Hurwitz Scholarship in Jewish Languages
- Ada Rapoport-Albert Scholarship in Jewish Religious Life
- The Hebrew and Jewish Studies Scholarship in Jewish History and Politics
www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
- Hyman Hurwitz Scholarship in Jewish Languages
- Ada Rapoport-Albert Scholarship in Jewish Religious Life
- The Hebrew and Jewish Studies Scholarship in Jewish History and Politics
www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
the Jewish Studies Week at the Wirth Institute @ualberta.bsky.social is coming up. On Tue I will speak about Hasidic nostalgia. Everone's welcome!
February 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
the Jewish Studies Week at the Wirth Institute @ualberta.bsky.social is coming up. On Tue I will speak about Hasidic nostalgia. Everone's welcome!
My article on black kasha in Chabad is out! Had much fun writing about shvartse kashe, its history and contemporary uses, as well as food and nostalgia in Judaism. You can access it the latest Jewish Quarterly Review at muse.jhu.edu/article/952522
February 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
My article on black kasha in Chabad is out! Had much fun writing about shvartse kashe, its history and contemporary uses, as well as food and nostalgia in Judaism. You can access it the latest Jewish Quarterly Review at muse.jhu.edu/article/952522
if you're in Montreal, come on Mon, 24 Feb to the Jewish Studies Dept. I will be talking about interwar yeshivas, and how all this edu business was (under)funded. Come for Hasidic revival, stay for uncanny parallels with today's academia!
The Economy of an Interwar Yeshivah - Dr. Wojciech Tworek
Location: Leacock 738 This talk examines the financial operations of rabbinical academies (yeshivas) in Poland during the interwar years (1918–1939), a period marked by a revival of Orthodox Judaism. ...
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February 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
if you're in Montreal, come on Mon, 24 Feb to the Jewish Studies Dept. I will be talking about interwar yeshivas, and how all this edu business was (under)funded. Come for Hasidic revival, stay for uncanny parallels with today's academia!
כל יום אני תולש מהלוח דף....
January 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
כל יום אני תולש מהלוח דף....
My brilliant dept colleague Agnieszka August-Zarębska coorganises a conference on translation in Sephardic culture at CSIC Madrid (2 feb 2025). It will be hybrid, links will follow. everyone's welcome!!
January 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
My brilliant dept colleague Agnieszka August-Zarębska coorganises a conference on translation in Sephardic culture at CSIC Madrid (2 feb 2025). It will be hybrid, links will follow. everyone's welcome!!
The Polish diary of Sarah Schenirer is finally out!!! Huge congrats to Joanna Degler, Dariusz Dekiert, and the whole team of zydzi.autobiografia.uni.wroc.pl An absolute must-read for anyone into Bais Yaakov, Hasidism, Jewish education etc.
December 20, 2024 at 10:25 AM
The Polish diary of Sarah Schenirer is finally out!!! Huge congrats to Joanna Degler, Dariusz Dekiert, and the whole team of zydzi.autobiografia.uni.wroc.pl An absolute must-read for anyone into Bais Yaakov, Hasidism, Jewish education etc.