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zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל

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researching yiddishkeit and the yiddish language. looking to follow jewish artists and scholars 🏳️‍🌈🕎 she/her

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the dybbuk is CLOSED after a COMPLETELY SOLD-OUT WEEKEND of performances!!!! the show was a success beyond my imagination, audiences loved it and the entire company was so wonderful and passionate. i did dramaturgy and costume design and acted for my very first time. heres me and the bochurim :)

November 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM

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Some bokhurim

November 14, 2025 at 1:54 AM

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i'm looking like motl the tailor rn

November 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM

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well i guess its not all bad

November 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM

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Dybbuk haunted house and cabaret was a HUGE success!!! Feeling so warm about the Philly yiddishist community ❣️

November 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM

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אַ פֿריילעכען האַלאָװין 🎃

October 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM

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my graphic design is going crazy lately. i made this from scratch on canva

October 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM

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my yaois <3

October 16, 2025 at 2:01 AM

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טאַמאַרינד־מיאַטע טיקװע געדישעכץ מיט פֿריש טאָפֿו !

October 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM

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evri-taytsh is WILD

October 1, 2025 at 5:07 AM

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September 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM

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jews love nothing more than to organize a summer camp

The first separate and independent congress of Tsukunft met in Warsaw in June 1919. At the time, its structure consisted of 250 local organizations, with some 15,000 members—1,200 in Warsaw alone. By 1939, the Warsaw Tsukunft had 2,400 members in 95 circles. Tsukunft organized summer camps (all-Polish or regional) and, later, established winter and hiking camps. Cultural activities included choirs, theater groups, and evening courses for young workers. Its biweekly publication, Yugnt veker, was published for more than two decades. The final issue appeared in late September 1939, when Poland was already under Nazi occupation.

September 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM

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Why is the bund guy in my local bar??

September 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM

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@support.bsky.team when will you add a "no" option

September 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM

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Reheated the vilne vegetarian cookbook borsht and added beans and ohhhh man....so delicious

September 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM

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Love spotting this guy out and about

September 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM

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September 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM

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this made me laugh so loud. from a book of yiddish folktales

A photo of a book section. There is a black-and-white illustration of a hand pouring water into a basin. Underneath, it reads the chapter title: 3 - Things Can Always Get Worse.

Once there was a poor man who thought it was too bad that he had to go about begging for bread, and he complained about it to God. With that, a hump grew on his back, and in addition to the hump, a man grew there too, and the man had a mouth as well, and each time the beggar tried to eat a morsel of bread, the man on his back snatched it from him.
Then the beggar prayed, “Neither erase, O Lord, nor write. Let things be the way they were.”
And this is why one must never say that things are bad. They can always get worse.

September 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM

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September 3, 2025 at 2:03 AM

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הײַנט, איך האָב געעסן רײַז בלוקעס אין אַ נײַע רעסטוראַן בײַ כינעשטאָט! זײ זענען געװען שטאַרק זשע געשמאַק און די קונים זענען געװען אַ סך הנוה כאַכאַ. יאַשאָק, איך האָב געזעטצן מיט עפּעס שײנער באָבעס ☺️.