Jessica Kirzane
@zanykirz.bsky.social
Yiddish Studies scholar & translator & language instructor & editor
Nothing says Christmas Sunday like klezmer.
January 28, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Nothing says Christmas Sunday like klezmer.
.װאָס קען איך נאָר זאָגן? איך בין טאַקע פֿון דער צוקונפֿט
December 29, 2023 at 1:38 AM
.װאָס קען איך נאָר זאָגן? איך בין טאַקע פֿון דער צוקונפֿט
Der Tog, June 9, 1927: In a speech, David Sarnoff, Vice President of the RCA, tells the Chicago Association of Commerce that he believes that soon people will communicate more with pictures than with written words.
December 29, 2023 at 1:30 AM
Der Tog, June 9, 1927: In a speech, David Sarnoff, Vice President of the RCA, tells the Chicago Association of Commerce that he believes that soon people will communicate more with pictures than with written words.
I know where you can get some good tea, though, according to "a famous writer"...
November 9, 2023 at 10:55 PM
I know where you can get some good tea, though, according to "a famous writer"...
Who will sing this song woth me? Found in an issue of Oktyaberl magazine. (I am having fun teaching Yiddish students from materials in UChicago's Special Collections this quarter!)
October 6, 2023 at 8:47 PM
Who will sing this song woth me? Found in an issue of Oktyaberl magazine. (I am having fun teaching Yiddish students from materials in UChicago's Special Collections this quarter!)
No, I insist, I have to have my own so I can have my own concert at home.
October 4, 2023 at 6:17 PM
No, I insist, I have to have my own so I can have my own concert at home.
Cleveland, Jan 13, 1918: The Jewish Business Girls Club Dance: The Jewish Business Girls Club Vacation camp in Huron, Ohio will give its third annual dance this evening... Proceeds will go to the improvement of their camp Ms Rose Wasserman is the president of the club, which has over 150 members.
October 4, 2023 at 5:42 PM
Cleveland, Jan 13, 1918: The Jewish Business Girls Club Dance: The Jewish Business Girls Club Vacation camp in Huron, Ohio will give its third annual dance this evening... Proceeds will go to the improvement of their camp Ms Rose Wasserman is the president of the club, which has over 150 members.
Or maybe get me some Kristmes dzshuleri?
October 4, 2023 at 5:05 PM
Or maybe get me some Kristmes dzshuleri?
Please get me this for Khanike, I am begging
October 4, 2023 at 4:41 PM
Please get me this for Khanike, I am begging
?דאָס װײס איך נישט! משתּמא מילך
October 1, 2023 at 2:18 AM
?דאָס װײס איך נישט! משתּמא מילך
I am telling you, this music was not ordinary. It was different. When you hear it your dancing will also be different.
(spotted in The Sentinel, Feb. 1923)
(spotted in The Sentinel, Feb. 1923)
October 1, 2023 at 1:39 AM
I am telling you, this music was not ordinary. It was different. When you hear it your dancing will also be different.
(spotted in The Sentinel, Feb. 1923)
(spotted in The Sentinel, Feb. 1923)
I hear that the internet loves cats. Here you go.
(source: www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/...)
(source: www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/...)
October 1, 2023 at 1:34 AM
I hear that the internet loves cats. Here you go.
(source: www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/...)
(source: www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/...)
Extraordinary music! And guess what? The cost is surprisingly low - No higher than that of ordinary music.
(spotted in The Sentinel, January 1923)
(spotted in The Sentinel, January 1923)
September 30, 2023 at 9:49 PM
Extraordinary music! And guess what? The cost is surprisingly low - No higher than that of ordinary music.
(spotted in The Sentinel, January 1923)
(spotted in The Sentinel, January 1923)
Tomorrow my Yiddish class will go to Special Collections in our library to type on a Yiddish typewriter. I have a great job.
September 28, 2023 at 7:00 PM
Tomorrow my Yiddish class will go to Special Collections in our library to type on a Yiddish typewriter. I have a great job.
Beatrice Bisno describing her 1938 novel about Chicago garment workers: "These humble tailors constitute a brilliant motif in the complicated fabric of American life and posess... literary significance"
September 19, 2023 at 3:53 PM
Beatrice Bisno describing her 1938 novel about Chicago garment workers: "These humble tailors constitute a brilliant motif in the complicated fabric of American life and posess... literary significance"
Happy Publication Day! 🥳🥳🥳🥳
Pictured: Me, A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories by Miriam Karpilove (Syracuse University Press: TODAY), standing in front of Miriam Karpilove's needlework that hangs in my house.
Pictured: Me, A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories by Miriam Karpilove (Syracuse University Press: TODAY), standing in front of Miriam Karpilove's needlework that hangs in my house.
September 15, 2023 at 2:55 PM
Happy Publication Day! 🥳🥳🥳🥳
Pictured: Me, A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories by Miriam Karpilove (Syracuse University Press: TODAY), standing in front of Miriam Karpilove's needlework that hangs in my house.
Pictured: Me, A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories by Miriam Karpilove (Syracuse University Press: TODAY), standing in front of Miriam Karpilove's needlework that hangs in my house.
In 1930, Meyer Zolotarev interviewed UChicago physicist Prof. Albert A. Michelson, who measured the speed of light, for the Yiddish journal Shikage. "What's the use of an interview?" asks the prof. "Just come in and have a cup of coffee. Why bog down your brain in all this scientific terminology?"
September 11, 2023 at 4:26 PM
In 1930, Meyer Zolotarev interviewed UChicago physicist Prof. Albert A. Michelson, who measured the speed of light, for the Yiddish journal Shikage. "What's the use of an interview?" asks the prof. "Just come in and have a cup of coffee. Why bog down your brain in all this scientific terminology?"
From a 1934 newspaper - a report on a newly invented typewriter so small you can fit it in your pocket:
September 8, 2023 at 3:19 AM
From a 1934 newspaper - a report on a newly invented typewriter so small you can fit it in your pocket:
Putting final touches on a book chapter about author/screenwriter Marian Spitzer, so here's a fun anecdote about her, published in the celebrity gossip column of The Sentinel in 1930.
September 7, 2023 at 12:56 AM
Putting final touches on a book chapter about author/screenwriter Marian Spitzer, so here's a fun anecdote about her, published in the celebrity gossip column of The Sentinel in 1930.
Do you make grammatical mistakes with your Yiddish? You too can be a Yiddish writer like Miriam Karpilove! (pictured: a description of MK's poor grammar by a grumpy critic in 1922)
August 30, 2023 at 4:41 PM
Do you make grammatical mistakes with your Yiddish? You too can be a Yiddish writer like Miriam Karpilove! (pictured: a description of MK's poor grammar by a grumpy critic in 1922)
LOOK what arrived in the mail today!!!
press.syr.edu/supressbooks...
press.syr.edu/supressbooks...
August 28, 2023 at 5:56 PM
LOOK what arrived in the mail today!!!
press.syr.edu/supressbooks...
press.syr.edu/supressbooks...
Ladies, who wants to go to this Yiddish production in Chicago with me for free on Thursday? (All we need is a time machine and we can watch Khane Holander in Leyb Malekh's The Yellow Shadow).
August 28, 2023 at 2:39 PM
Ladies, who wants to go to this Yiddish production in Chicago with me for free on Thursday? (All we need is a time machine and we can watch Khane Holander in Leyb Malekh's The Yellow Shadow).
It's my first post on here, so I guess I'll share a rather grisly Chicago Yiddish poem by L. Gorelik, first (I think) published in 1921 in Fraye Arbeter Shtime. "Your sky is grey and smoky/ your streets dirty and vast / children play on your sidewalks / next to them lies a dead cat"...
August 25, 2023 at 7:44 PM
It's my first post on here, so I guess I'll share a rather grisly Chicago Yiddish poem by L. Gorelik, first (I think) published in 1921 in Fraye Arbeter Shtime. "Your sky is grey and smoky/ your streets dirty and vast / children play on your sidewalks / next to them lies a dead cat"...