Sam Spinner
@samspinner.bsky.social
Yiddish, German, literature, art, monuments, museums.
My book about 4 of the above: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33157
Associate Professor @ Johns Hopkins.
My book about 4 of the above: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33157
Associate Professor @ Johns Hopkins.
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did not expect the site of Thomas Beckett’s murder to be memorialized in a fashion that is quite so fucking metal
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
did not expect the site of Thomas Beckett’s murder to be memorialized in a fashion that is quite so fucking metal
Revise until your significant other understands.
November 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Revise until your significant other understands.
I’ve got cognitive dissonance about other people’s cognitive dissonance.
November 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I’ve got cognitive dissonance about other people’s cognitive dissonance.
Every family has its own insider language. For example, in my house “bookmark” means my business cards.
November 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Every family has its own insider language. For example, in my house “bookmark” means my business cards.
Machine learning what?
October 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Machine learning what?
I’m looking to download a new Weltanschauung.
October 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I’m looking to download a new Weltanschauung.
If you’re in the area and like cool books… featuring Dr. Mack Zalin of @jhulibraries.bsky.social and yours truly.
events.jhu.edu/form/hopkins...
events.jhu.edu/form/hopkins...
October 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
If you’re in the area and like cool books… featuring Dr. Mack Zalin of @jhulibraries.bsky.social and yours truly.
events.jhu.edu/form/hopkins...
events.jhu.edu/form/hopkins...
I’m thinking about building a collection of early modern ebooks.
October 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I’m thinking about building a collection of early modern ebooks.
I now get more peer review requests every week than emails from LensCrafters.
October 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I now get more peer review requests every week than emails from LensCrafters.
Very strange that the Group Seven early 20th century Canadian landscape painters are going viral.
Group of Seven (artists) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Very strange that the Group Seven early 20th century Canadian landscape painters are going viral.
“Have mercy. Don’t be a nudnik.”
Ordering these immediately.
Ordering these immediately.
October 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
“Have mercy. Don’t be a nudnik.”
Ordering these immediately.
Ordering these immediately.
These post-it notes are perfect for when you need a reminder that you’ve already forgotten the thing you wanted to remember.
October 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
These post-it notes are perfect for when you need a reminder that you’ve already forgotten the thing you wanted to remember.
I set a personal best by building my sukkah yesterday. My new goal is to do Pesach cleaning before Yom Kippur.
September 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I set a personal best by building my sukkah yesterday. My new goal is to do Pesach cleaning before Yom Kippur.
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Roadworks will tear us apart, again
September 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Roadworks will tear us apart, again
I burn most of my calories on Peloton fuming about genre taxonomy.
September 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I burn most of my calories on Peloton fuming about genre taxonomy.
My laser pointer didn’t work in class yesterday so instead I simply asked my students to visualize the course of the Oder River.
August 29, 2025 at 10:42 AM
My laser pointer didn’t work in class yesterday so instead I simply asked my students to visualize the course of the Oder River.
Bluesky abridged: Have you heard about the Cracker Barrel at the University of Chicago?
August 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Bluesky abridged: Have you heard about the Cracker Barrel at the University of Chicago?
My fig tree runneth over.
August 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
My fig tree runneth over.
I started my semester with a root canal. How are you gonna beat that, ChatGPT?
August 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I started my semester with a root canal. How are you gonna beat that, ChatGPT?
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Having children dress as characters for book week teaches them to embrace naive mimesis. They should be encouraged to personify formal categories like omniscient naration, free indirect discourse, etc
August 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Having children dress as characters for book week teaches them to embrace naive mimesis. They should be encouraged to personify formal categories like omniscient naration, free indirect discourse, etc
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If you are looking to read something on the history of Zionism that moves beyond the settler colonialism debate & shows how the pre-1948 conflict in Palestine is linked to pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe -- & the role of int'l law in this story -- here's a new piece by yours truly. cup.org/4lQfUL7
The Right to Banality: Interwar Jewish Global Thought between Eastern Europe and the Middle East | Nationalities Papers | Cambridge Core
The Right to Banality: Interwar Jewish Global Thought between Eastern Europe and the Middle East
cup.org
August 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
If you are looking to read something on the history of Zionism that moves beyond the settler colonialism debate & shows how the pre-1948 conflict in Palestine is linked to pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe -- & the role of int'l law in this story -- here's a new piece by yours truly. cup.org/4lQfUL7
Why is everyone talking about the fall semester. It's May.
August 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Why is everyone talking about the fall semester. It's May.
Tried to get my kids to stop fighting about what show to watch by quoting the Prophets. No luck with Amos 3:3: “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?”
So I went back to Amos 3:2: “You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”
So I went back to Amos 3:2: “You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”
August 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Tried to get my kids to stop fighting about what show to watch by quoting the Prophets. No luck with Amos 3:3: “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?”
So I went back to Amos 3:2: “You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”
So I went back to Amos 3:2: “You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”
They don’t understand. It’s not basketball weaving, it’s basket imbricating.
August 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
They don’t understand. It’s not basketball weaving, it’s basket imbricating.
Nothing more annoying than dittographic Sumerograms.
August 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Nothing more annoying than dittographic Sumerograms.