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-...

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 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 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...

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...

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...

People often ask me what's going on at Harvard. Here's one report.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...

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!

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!

Here is an excerpt from my taytsh manifesto, which of course has 10 points, in Yiddish and in English. Here is #8, with something to say about our present moment...

Sorry I have been gone from here for so long—in the meanwhile the book became real and arrived in the world! Tatysh for one and all!

www.fordhampress.com/978153150917...

Book proofs!

It's coming up on the end of the semester when I share with my students all the new things going on in the Yiddish world—what are your favorite projects? Don't be afraid to self-promote.

[and a bit of shund for your enjoyment along the way: "Her Men," a novel by none other than Miriam Karpilove]

"The boy, in his appearance, is not very interesting... The father is also not very interesting... But his mother is a remarkable woman, her name is Sonia, and she is a Russian-Jewish intellectual.”

What can shund.org tell us about Yiddish mothers? Link in comments...

With Shund.org, the just-launched database of Yiddish popular fiction, approaching 10k works—and growing—it can be daunting to think about how to analyze all that data. It's even hard to come up with a good research question. Sometimes what helps is a stroll through the data. Yes, in virtual reality

Ah, it's nice to be under the blue sky... And it comes with some shund, some popular Yiddish literature—a story from Z. Shneyor about thieves "as if fallen from the sky" and a series of jokes about "heaven and earth and Jews," including a quip about President Coolidge being a yid named Kalmen...