Sonia Gollance
@sgollance.bsky.social
Associate Prof. of Yiddish at UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Book: It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity (Stanford UP). Working on Yiddish plays by women. Yiddish, German, dance, theatre, gender studies. https://soniagollance.com
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University of Vienna, Full Professor of Jewish Studies with a Focus on Persecution History and Antisemitism Studies
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University of Vienna: Full Professor of Jewish Studies with a Focus on Persecution History and Antisemitism Studies, deadline for applications 17th Dec 2025 – European Association for Jewish Studies
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November 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
University of Vienna, Full Professor of Jewish Studies with a Focus on Persecution History and Antisemitism Studies
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The University of Chicago - Instructional Professor (Open Rank) in Modern Hebrew
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Academic Jobs | The University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private, nondenominational, culturally rich and ethnically diverse coeducational research university located in Hyde Park, Chicago.
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November 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The University of Chicago - Instructional Professor (Open Rank) in Modern Hebrew
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Think you know everything about Goethe? He was a poet, a scientist, a rebel… and a total genius. Daniel Johnson breaks it all down in The Critic. Read the review of @matthewgbell.bsky.social's book here:
Goethe, a man of ideas | Daniel Johnson | The Critic Magazine
Goethe seemed to have lived many lives, for no man in history has shown glimpses of genius across such a wide range of human endeavour.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Think you know everything about Goethe? He was a poet, a scientist, a rebel… and a total genius. Daniel Johnson breaks it all down in The Critic. Read the review of @matthewgbell.bsky.social's book here:
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#medievalsky
Learn to read Old English from scratch! The CEMA has been hosting monthly manuscript reading sessions at @sorbonne-universite.fr since 1984 🥰 We are now also online, one Saturday morning a month -- next session this coming Saturday, 10-12 CET. Ping me if you want to partake 🎉🎉🎉
Learn to read Old English from scratch! The CEMA has been hosting monthly manuscript reading sessions at @sorbonne-universite.fr since 1984 🥰 We are now also online, one Saturday morning a month -- next session this coming Saturday, 10-12 CET. Ping me if you want to partake 🎉🎉🎉
![Illustration = the Old English Hexateuch, w. an image of the creation of Eve.
Text = Everything you always wanted to know about medieval manuscripts — but were too afraid to ask
Attend the 2025-2026 CÉMA/AMAES Saturday morning sessions and learn to read medieval English manuscripts from scratch!
When — Saturday 10 am-12 noon — October 11, November 15, December 13, January 24, February 21, March 21, April 11, May 30, June 13
Where — Sorbonne & Zoom
To join at any point in the year, just e-mail us: florence.bourgne [at] sorbonne-universite.fr](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6hlwrmjv2f5tbvxno2r3342t/bafkreidcp4qdch723map5sjg4quxgqjohnccv3eokqtm7j4qzyly3boznu@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
#medievalsky
Learn to read Old English from scratch! The CEMA has been hosting monthly manuscript reading sessions at @sorbonne-universite.fr since 1984 🥰 We are now also online, one Saturday morning a month -- next session this coming Saturday, 10-12 CET. Ping me if you want to partake 🎉🎉🎉
Learn to read Old English from scratch! The CEMA has been hosting monthly manuscript reading sessions at @sorbonne-universite.fr since 1984 🥰 We are now also online, one Saturday morning a month -- next session this coming Saturday, 10-12 CET. Ping me if you want to partake 🎉🎉🎉
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VISITING FELLOWSHIPS: Applications are now open for 2026-27!
The deadline for applications is Friday 28 November 2025.
For more information on how to apply: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/bodleian-visiting-fellowships
The deadline for applications is Friday 28 November 2025.
For more information on how to apply: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/bodleian-visiting-fellowships
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
VISITING FELLOWSHIPS: Applications are now open for 2026-27!
The deadline for applications is Friday 28 November 2025.
For more information on how to apply: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/bodleian-visiting-fellowships
The deadline for applications is Friday 28 November 2025.
For more information on how to apply: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/bodleian-visiting-fellowships
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salute to Chaia and Josh Dolgin the 2 best samplers of Yiddish music
From shtetl to synth: How Yiddish electronica found its rhythm
Josh “Socalled” Dolgin and Chaia both aim to keep Yiddish vibrant without turning it into a museum piece
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November 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
salute to Chaia and Josh Dolgin the 2 best samplers of Yiddish music
London music fans! Zoe Aqua (fiddler, USA) will be performing a solo set of klezmer and Transylvanian music with some special guests this Sunday 16 Nov at DB Music (in Stoke Newington). 2:30 pm doors, 3pm concert. £8. @klezmershack.bsky.social
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November 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
London music fans! Zoe Aqua (fiddler, USA) will be performing a solo set of klezmer and Transylvanian music with some special guests this Sunday 16 Nov at DB Music (in Stoke Newington). 2:30 pm doors, 3pm concert. £8. @klezmershack.bsky.social
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We're excited about playing at St Mary's Church in Rotherhithe in a few weeks as part of TunedInLondon's programme!! The gig is on Thur 27th Nov. Tickets available here: tunedin.london
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#rotherhithe #klezmer #southwark #london
It'd be lovely to see you there!
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#rotherhithe #klezmer #southwark #london
It'd be lovely to see you there!
Tunedin.London
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November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
We're excited about playing at St Mary's Church in Rotherhithe in a few weeks as part of TunedInLondon's programme!! The gig is on Thur 27th Nov. Tickets available here: tunedin.london
@tunedinldn.bsky.social
#rotherhithe #klezmer #southwark #london
It'd be lovely to see you there!
@tunedinldn.bsky.social
#rotherhithe #klezmer #southwark #london
It'd be lovely to see you there!
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JOB
College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics (c20), Trinity College, Cambridge
[This includes a teaching requirement for International Relations]
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College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics (c20), Trinity College, Cambridge
[This includes a teaching requirement for International Relations]
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College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics
Applications are invited for appointment to a College Lectureship in Modern History and Politics, together with a Fellowship, tenable for five years in the first instance, with the possibility of…
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November 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
JOB
College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics (c20), Trinity College, Cambridge
[This includes a teaching requirement for International Relations]
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College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics (c20), Trinity College, Cambridge
[This includes a teaching requirement for International Relations]
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📢 We are thrilled to announce the #CfP for the Sixth International Seminar in Historical #Refugee Studies, which will be held at the University of Vienna, Sept 28-Oct 1, 2026! Deadline is December 20, 2026. For more information, see rhs.hypotheses.org and CfP below:
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
📢 We are thrilled to announce the #CfP for the Sixth International Seminar in Historical #Refugee Studies, which will be held at the University of Vienna, Sept 28-Oct 1, 2026! Deadline is December 20, 2026. For more information, see rhs.hypotheses.org and CfP below:
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
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Early Career Rescue Fellowship
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November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
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JOB: Assistant or Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and Culture at Hebrew Union College (Los Angeles). Specialties should include Holocaust and Global Antisemitism. @uclhjs.bsky.social
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Assistant or Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and Culture
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November 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
JOB: Assistant or Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and Culture at Hebrew Union College (Los Angeles). Specialties should include Holocaust and Global Antisemitism. @uclhjs.bsky.social
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Students & researchers have a tough time keeping the names of Roman emperors and elites straight. But we do have a database to help name and number each. It is called the Prospographia Imperii Romani (=PIR) and has 15061 persons, of which 1932 are women. Please use the database! pir.bbaw.de#/search
Prosopographia Imperii Romani
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November 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Students & researchers have a tough time keeping the names of Roman emperors and elites straight. But we do have a database to help name and number each. It is called the Prospographia Imperii Romani (=PIR) and has 15061 persons, of which 1932 are women. Please use the database! pir.bbaw.de#/search
This December you can join me at Yiddish New York for my session "Dancing with Stories." We'll be doing two of my favorite things – close reading a literary dance scene (in translation) and learning the dance it describes–to the live accompaniment of the amazing Christina Crowder.
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This December you can join me at Yiddish New York for my session "Dancing with Stories." We'll be doing two of my favorite things – close reading a literary dance scene (in translation) and learning the dance it describes–to the live accompaniment of the amazing Christina Crowder.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....
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November 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....
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FEATURED JOB: Binghamton University - State University of New York - Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics
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November 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
FEATURED JOB: Binghamton University - State University of New York - Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics
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FEATURED JOB: Ariel University - Tenure-track – Lecturer in Jewish History of Islamic Lands - Position code SHIH4156
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הדמנות // משרה: מרצה בהיסטוריה של יהודי ארצות האסלאם [אריאל] דדליין=22.8.25
Tenure-track – Lecturer in Jewish History of Islamic LandsPosition code SHIH4156 The Department of Jewish History at Ariel University seeks outstanding candidates to fill a tenure-track position in…
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November 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
FEATURED JOB: Ariel University - Tenure-track – Lecturer in Jewish History of Islamic Lands - Position code SHIH4156
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FEATURED JOB: Stanford University - Eli Reinhard Postdoctoral Fellowship in Jewish Studies at Stanford
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Eli Reinhard Postdoctoral Fellowship in Jewish Studies | Taube Center for Jewish Studies
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November 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
FEATURED JOB: Stanford University - Eli Reinhard Postdoctoral Fellowship in Jewish Studies at Stanford
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FEATURED JOB: Keene State College - Cohen Endowed Chair in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Tenure-Track Faculty)
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Cohen Endowed Chair in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Tenure-Track Faculty)
USNH Employees should apply within Workday through the Jobs Hub app Keene State College invites applications for an endowed faculty position at the rank of associate or full professor (with an expedit...
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November 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
FEATURED JOB: Keene State College - Cohen Endowed Chair in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Tenure-Track Faculty)
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FEATURED JOB: University of California - Santa Barbara - Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
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November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
FEATURED JOB: University of California - Santa Barbara - Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
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We're thrilled to announce our theme and dates for 2026!
מר פֿרײען זיך זײער צו מעלדן אונזער טעמע און דאַטעס פֿאַרן קומענדיקן יאָר!
מר פֿרײען זיך זײער צו מעלדן אונזער טעמע און דאַטעס פֿאַרן קומענדיקן יאָר!
November 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
We're thrilled to announce our theme and dates for 2026!
מר פֿרײען זיך זײער צו מעלדן אונזער טעמע און דאַטעס פֿאַרן קומענדיקן יאָר!
מר פֿרײען זיך זײער צו מעלדן אונזער טעמע און דאַטעס פֿאַרן קומענדיקן יאָר!
The next British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies conference (conveniently located near @uclhjs.bsky.social, @wienerlibrary.bsky.social and the British Library) might also be of interest to @jewishstudies.bsky.social members.
Join us in London in July!
CALL FOR PAPERS NOW LIVE
#BIAJS2026 “Space and place in Jewish studies” 13-15 July Birkbeck
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CALL FOR PAPERS NOW LIVE
#BIAJS2026 “Space and place in Jewish studies” 13-15 July Birkbeck
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Call for Papers: BIAJS Conference 2026 (13-15 July, Birkbeck, University of London)
CALL FOR PAPERS #BIAJS2026 Space and Place in Jewish Studies British and Irish Association of Jewish Studies Annual Conference 2026 Birkbeck, University of London | July 2026 “there is…
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November 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The next British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies conference (conveniently located near @uclhjs.bsky.social, @wienerlibrary.bsky.social and the British Library) might also be of interest to @jewishstudies.bsky.social members.
By my count (which could be out of date–this field is expanding rapidly!) the third English translation of a story by Ukraine-born Canadian Yiddish writer Anne (Chana) Viderman is now available, on the @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social website. @zanykirz.bsky.social @uilleamblacker.bsky.social
My translation is up on the Yiddish Book Center website! 🎉 So proud to be debuting as a Yiddish translator with Chana Viderman's sensitive reminiscence of adolescence, Jewishness, and being a little bit in love with your cousin.
My Cousin Doba | Yiddish Book Center
Two cousins explore adoration, Jewishness, and growing up in this short essay by Anne (Chana) Viderman, translated by Lydia Moëd.
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October 28, 2025 at 8:06 AM
By my count (which could be out of date–this field is expanding rapidly!) the third English translation of a story by Ukraine-born Canadian Yiddish writer Anne (Chana) Viderman is now available, on the @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social website. @zanykirz.bsky.social @uilleamblacker.bsky.social