Laura Arnold Leibman
@lauraleibman.bsky.social
Jewish studies scholar and pug enthusiast. Leonard J. Milberg ’53 Professor in American Jewish Studies @Princeton University, President Association for Jewish Studies
Source:
Marcus, Jacob Rader. The American Jewish Woman : a Documentary History. Cincinnati: American Jewish Archives, 1981. pp. 59-60
Also learn more about Hetty's family: Stern's First American Jewish Families, p. 120 sites.americanjewisharchives.org/publications...
Marcus, Jacob Rader. The American Jewish Woman : a Documentary History. Cincinnati: American Jewish Archives, 1981. pp. 59-60
Also learn more about Hetty's family: Stern's First American Jewish Families, p. 120 sites.americanjewisharchives.org/publications...
November 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Source:
Marcus, Jacob Rader. The American Jewish Woman : a Documentary History. Cincinnati: American Jewish Archives, 1981. pp. 59-60
Also learn more about Hetty's family: Stern's First American Jewish Families, p. 120 sites.americanjewisharchives.org/publications...
Marcus, Jacob Rader. The American Jewish Woman : a Documentary History. Cincinnati: American Jewish Archives, 1981. pp. 59-60
Also learn more about Hetty's family: Stern's First American Jewish Families, p. 120 sites.americanjewisharchives.org/publications...
Today's amusing tidbit. A gossipy letter about the marriage of Esther "Hetty" Isaacks (daughter of Rebecca Mears) to Isaac Moses (of SC) and also less bitchy note about the marriage of Fanny Isaacs and Harmon Hendricks. The letter supplies great information about the wedding outfits of both women.
November 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Today's amusing tidbit. A gossipy letter about the marriage of Esther "Hetty" Isaacks (daughter of Rebecca Mears) to Isaac Moses (of SC) and also less bitchy note about the marriage of Fanny Isaacs and Harmon Hendricks. The letter supplies great information about the wedding outfits of both women.
Today's fun resource for people who love the history of fashion: a visual timeline of early American clothing and accessories by year. museuminteractives.colonialwilliamsburg.org/history/muse...
October 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Today's fun resource for people who love the history of fashion: a visual timeline of early American clothing and accessories by year. museuminteractives.colonialwilliamsburg.org/history/muse...
Applications due next week! (Nov 2)
October 29, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Applications due next week! (Nov 2)
What we are reading! Finished “Wild Dark Shore” over the first part of succot and can’t recommend it enough. Perfect for people who like a thriller and are interested in the environment or animals or Oz. T Swift book based on the Harvard poet’s class
#pugbooktok #charlottemcconaghy #StephanieBurt
#pugbooktok #charlottemcconaghy #StephanieBurt
October 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
What we are reading! Finished “Wild Dark Shore” over the first part of succot and can’t recommend it enough. Perfect for people who like a thriller and are interested in the environment or animals or Oz. T Swift book based on the Harvard poet’s class
#pugbooktok #charlottemcconaghy #StephanieBurt
#pugbooktok #charlottemcconaghy #StephanieBurt
Day of the Dead at Princeton University! Hosted by the Effron Center for the Study of America @princeton.edu
October 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Day of the Dead at Princeton University! Hosted by the Effron Center for the Study of America @princeton.edu
Two more exquisite books I highly recommend. Both cover brutal topics but have incredible character development and amazing writing. The Correspondent reminded me of Elizabeth Strout’s work. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #deathofus #thecorrespondent
October 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Two more exquisite books I highly recommend. Both cover brutal topics but have incredible character development and amazing writing. The Correspondent reminded me of Elizabeth Strout’s work. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #deathofus #thecorrespondent
Some awesome books we have read in the past week. Katabasis is a wickedly funny academic spoof. Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation is a Jewish American novel that traces women in a family over three generations. If you like the work of Allegra Goodman, you may like Yahm’s book. #sarahyahm #katabasis
October 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Some awesome books we have read in the past week. Katabasis is a wickedly funny academic spoof. Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation is a Jewish American novel that traces women in a family over three generations. If you like the work of Allegra Goodman, you may like Yahm’s book. #sarahyahm #katabasis
The succah is up! Tomorrow the spouse is supposed to string the lights and get the cushions for the outdoor chairs set up while I am at work. Meanwhile shopping is done, dishwasher is running so I can set up the crockpot in the am, and dough for challah rolls is in the bread machine. 🍋🍞🍗
October 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The succah is up! Tomorrow the spouse is supposed to string the lights and get the cushions for the outdoor chairs set up while I am at work. Meanwhile shopping is done, dishwasher is running so I can set up the crockpot in the am, and dough for challah rolls is in the bread machine. 🍋🍞🍗
Check out this amazing upcoming conference on Maritime Connections: Jews Across the Indian Ocean at the O.P. Jindal Global University, Delhi NCR, India
16-18.2.2026
Submission deadline: 31.10.2025. Call for papers
mrtmsummit.com/call-for-pap...
16-18.2.2026
Submission deadline: 31.10.2025. Call for papers
mrtmsummit.com/call-for-pap...
September 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Check out this amazing upcoming conference on Maritime Connections: Jews Across the Indian Ocean at the O.P. Jindal Global University, Delhi NCR, India
16-18.2.2026
Submission deadline: 31.10.2025. Call for papers
mrtmsummit.com/call-for-pap...
16-18.2.2026
Submission deadline: 31.10.2025. Call for papers
mrtmsummit.com/call-for-pap...
In awe of Darcel Deneau, creator of this beautiful #mosaic.
The dimensions are amazing. Also the colors! www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
The dimensions are amazing. Also the colors! www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
September 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
In awe of Darcel Deneau, creator of this beautiful #mosaic.
The dimensions are amazing. Also the colors! www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
The dimensions are amazing. Also the colors! www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...
Amusing find of the day. This "Woolie of a shepherd wearing 'Joseph's Coat of Many Colors' holding a lamb. English c. 1850." Leatherwood Antiques. id34108.securedata.net/leatherwooda...
I love how he tucks the sheep under his arm and also the pipe in his mouth.
I love how he tucks the sheep under his arm and also the pipe in his mouth.
September 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Amusing find of the day. This "Woolie of a shepherd wearing 'Joseph's Coat of Many Colors' holding a lamb. English c. 1850." Leatherwood Antiques. id34108.securedata.net/leatherwooda...
I love how he tucks the sheep under his arm and also the pipe in his mouth.
I love how he tucks the sheep under his arm and also the pipe in his mouth.
Favorite book of the week and one of the best graphic novels I have read in a long time. Highly recommend ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
September 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Favorite book of the week and one of the best graphic novels I have read in a long time. Highly recommend ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
L’Shana Tova! A very happy new year to everyone. May the coming be year be filled with blessings and only good news, and may you only know the sweetness and happiness a pug feels when he is about to eat a slice of apple. 🍎 🍯 🍏
September 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
L’Shana Tova! A very happy new year to everyone. May the coming be year be filled with blessings and only good news, and may you only know the sweetness and happiness a pug feels when he is about to eat a slice of apple. 🍎 🍯 🍏
2 of the books we read over Shabbat. One true love was fine, but I HIGHLY recommend “Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance” by Alison Espach (the same author as The Wedding People). Laugh out loud funny but also about real issues. Beautifully written. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
September 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
2 of the books we read over Shabbat. One true love was fine, but I HIGHLY recommend “Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance” by Alison Espach (the same author as The Wedding People). Laugh out loud funny but also about real issues. Beautifully written. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Another great Tablet sampler with the Ten Commandments, by Elizabeth Coventry, 1727
data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/med...
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/med...
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
September 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Another great Tablet sampler with the Ten Commandments, by Elizabeth Coventry, 1727
data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/med...
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/med...
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Loving this 19thC Ten Commandments Sampler made by Canadian Mary Jessie Wolhaupter Watters (b. 1838) with genealogy and cat! Her father (shown here) was a private in the Civil War.
www.ebay.com/itm/19323551...
Images of Parents: www.findagrave.com/memorial/293...
www.ebay.com/itm/19323551...
Images of Parents: www.findagrave.com/memorial/293...
September 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Loving this 19thC Ten Commandments Sampler made by Canadian Mary Jessie Wolhaupter Watters (b. 1838) with genealogy and cat! Her father (shown here) was a private in the Civil War.
www.ebay.com/itm/19323551...
Images of Parents: www.findagrave.com/memorial/293...
www.ebay.com/itm/19323551...
Images of Parents: www.findagrave.com/memorial/293...
Side eye to the paparazzi when 30 min after breakfast has ended, the pug begins to despair he will ever eat again
September 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Side eye to the paparazzi when 30 min after breakfast has ended, the pug begins to despair he will ever eat again
Today's fun Jews and the Revolutionary War item: Benjamin Franklin's proposed design for the Great Seal of the United States (1776): "Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God"!
Source J. Losing, The Harper’s Monthly Magazine July 1856.
Source J. Losing, The Harper’s Monthly Magazine July 1856.
September 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Today's fun Jews and the Revolutionary War item: Benjamin Franklin's proposed design for the Great Seal of the United States (1776): "Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God"!
Source J. Losing, The Harper’s Monthly Magazine July 1856.
Source J. Losing, The Harper’s Monthly Magazine July 1856.
Pugs are also excited for vegan soup 🥣 rainbowplantlife.com/lemony-chick...
September 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Pugs are also excited for vegan soup 🥣 rainbowplantlife.com/lemony-chick...
One of the best novels I have read in awhile ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
September 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
One of the best novels I have read in awhile ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Beautiful Colonial Williamsburg—aka early Americanist heaven 💋
September 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Beautiful Colonial Williamsburg—aka early Americanist heaven 💋
Chihuly glass at the Glass Light Hitrl and Gallery, Norfolk VA
September 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Chihuly glass at the Glass Light Hitrl and Gallery, Norfolk VA
Glass by Karen LaMonte at The Glass Light Hotel and Gallery, Norfolk VA
September 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Glass by Karen LaMonte at The Glass Light Hotel and Gallery, Norfolk VA
Glass collection at the Glass Light Hotel in Norfolk, VA.
September 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Glass collection at the Glass Light Hotel in Norfolk, VA.