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.
Think you know everything about Goethe? He was a poet, a scientist, a rebelโฆ 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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![Illustration = the Old English Hexateuch, w. an image of the creation of Eve.
Text = Everything you always wanted to know about medieval manuscripts โ but were too afraid to ask
Attend the 2025-2026 CรMA/AMAES Saturday morning sessions and learn to read medieval English manuscripts from scratch!
When โ Saturday 10 am-12 noon โ October 11, November 15, December 13, January 24, February 21, March 21, April 11, May 30, June 13
Where โ 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)
Illustration = the Old English Hexateuch, w. an image of the creation of Eve.
Text = Everything you always wanted to know about medieval manuscripts โ but were too afraid to ask
Attend the 2025-2026 CรMA/AMAES Saturday morning sessions and learn to read medieval English manuscripts from scratch!
When โ Saturday 10 am-12 noon โ October 11, November 15, December 13, January 24, February 21, March 21, April 11, May 30, June 13
Where โ Sorbonne & Zoom
To join at any point in the year, just e-mail us: florence.bourgne [at] sorbonne-universite.fr
#medievalsky
Learn to read Old English from scratch! The CEMA has been hosting monthly manuscript reading sessions at @sorbonne-universite.fr since 1984 ๐ฅฐ 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 ๐๐๐
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Promotional banner inviting applications for Visiting Fellowships at the Bodleian Libraries for 2026-27, featuring an interior view of the library.
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
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Image of Zoe Aqua with fiddle, repeats information from post but adds that the post code for DB Music is N16 7PL.
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. ยฃ8. @klezmershack.bsky.social
www.dbmusiclondon.com/product/zoe-...
12.11.2025 18:39 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Tunedin.London
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!
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๐ข 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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Early Career Rescue Fellowship
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
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Assistant or Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and Culture
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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
www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...
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Prosopographia Imperii Romani
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
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Yiddish New York 2025: Dancing with Stories
View more about this event at Yiddish New York 2025
Plus my Yiddish New York session, "Dancing with Stories," will be hybrid, so you don't need to be in New York to participate. Sunday Dec 21 at 9:30-10:45am ET (2:30 PM BT, 3:30 PM CET, 4:30 PM IT). yiddishnewyork2025.sched.com/event/299MN/...
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Poster for "Dancing with Stories" with Sonia Gollance. Hybrid session. Tickets on sale now! yiddishnewyork.com.
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 โ close reading a literary dance scene (in translation) and learning the dance it describesโto the live accompaniment of the amazing Christina Crowder.
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Check out our call for papers @
ืืื ืึท ืงืืง ืืฑืฃ ืืื ืืขืจ ืงืืึพืงืืจื @
bit.ly/Farbindungen26Submission
05.11.2025 21:45 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
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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Eli Reinhard Postdoctoral Fellowship in Jewish Studies | Taube Center for Jewish Studies
FEATURED JOB: Stanford University - Eli Reinhard Postdoctoral Fellowship in Jewish Studies at Stanford
jewishstudies.stanford.edu/academics/el...
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We're thrilled to announce our theme and dates for 2026!
ืืจ ืคึฟืจืฒืขื ืืื ืืฒืขืจ ืฆื ืืขืืื ืืื ืืขืจ ืืขืืข ืืื ืืึทืืขืก ืคึฟืึทืจื ืงืืืขื ืืืงื ืืึธืจ!
05.11.2025 21:42 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1
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.
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Thanks! Very interesting to compare how the two ads address Jewish audiences in Yiddish (beyond negative campaigning vs. focusing on policies).
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The Dance Master
For further reading, the first translation of an Anne Viderman story is in the anthology "Arguing with the Storm," the second translation is by yours truly, a story about a rouge of a dance master and how the Jewish community deals with an epidemic. jewishfiction.com/story/the-da...
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By my count (which could be out of dateโthis 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
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History Prize 2026
2020 saw the launch of the Sir Martin Gilbert History Prize, an annual competition to honour Sir Martinโs work and inspire the next generation of historians.
'The History Prize is open to UK students in Years 10 and 11 (England and Wales)/ S3 and S4 (Scotland)/ Years 11 and 12 (Northern Ireland). It is organised by the Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre and @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social'.
sirmartingilbertlearningcentre.org/smg-history-...
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Looking forward to reading my copy of @miriamudel.bsky.socialโs new book on Yiddish childrenโs literature! Today at 4pm in the UK and 5 pm CET. @biajs.bsky.social @emilyfiner.bsky.social
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Associate Prof, University of Colorado; Director, Library of Congress RPTF; Media Historian
Former Eisenhower Presidential Library Director & James A. Garfield NHS Site Manager. Historian. Writer. Army veteran. History Ph.D. Until recently, a career civil servant. Currently unemployed (not by choice). #ParkChat Hall of Famer.
Klezmer and Experimental trombone-based music in Philly, New York and around the world. Creates the Radiant Others Podcast!
Gonna try and run this account for fun and connection like itโs that other site circa 2012.
History PhD Student at Northwestern University
Uni Bielefeld & Missouri State Alum
https://zeitgeschichte-online.de/themen/juedische-rache-nach-dem-holocaust
https://history.northwestern.edu/people/graduate-students/anna-celina-guenter.html
Early modern French thought
๐ PhD @gsas.harvard.edu (2022) on 18th-c. moralistes
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๐Cam, UK โก๏ธ Cam, MA
Dress and design historian. Museum professional. DATS Secretary. Views my own.
Traditional klezmer music with fiddles and tsimbl from Tiohtiร :ke/Montrรฉal.
Self-titled EP coming soon on @borschtbeat.bsky.social records!
Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Posts about the Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection in UCL Libraries, including news and info about print and electronic resources, useful websites, etc. https://library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewish-studies
Associate Professor at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. Popular culture, humour, literature, cinema. https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/2561
PhD researcher in post-WW2 intellectual history at the @EUI_EU. Teaching history at @sciencespo Reims campus. Sometimes making theatre. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ she/her
๐Paris/Warsaw/elsewhere
Bahari Research Fellow @ AMES, @ox.ac.uk; FRHistS; Iranian Studies, history, philology, late antique Zoroastrianism; Founder of @biblioIranica.info; AIS inaugural Book Prize for Ancient Iranian Studies 2022. My views.
https://linktr.ee/arashzeini
Senior Editor at the Univ Press of Colorado (Utah State UP & U of Alaska Press) acquiring books in composition & rhetoric, folklore, & polar studies. Formerly at OUP (music), Palgrave (politics) & Bloomsbury (33 1/3). Based in Brooklyn. Opinions my own.
Seeking to improve government and impact public policies through education & advocacy. Also at @VOTE411 for elections info!
NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor.
Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice & razor-sharp logic to Baker St.โs famous resident: Sherlock Holmes.
Postdoctoral researcher at University of Galway working on Romantic theatre. Current project on history plays. Writer, theatre fan, cat aunt. she/her
Re-Activating Restoration & 18th-Century Theatre for the 21st-Century. Find out more at: www.r18collective.org
Banner photo: Charlotte Munson & Shinnerrie Jackson in Addison's Cato, dir. Charles Pasternak (photo by Taryn Farro).
UNISON - the UK's largest union, representing 1.3 million public service workers. Need support? Call 0800 0857 857 or
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PhD candidate, Literary Studies/Germanistik @ Universitรคt Hamburg
Leo Baeck Fellow 2025โ2026
Talk to me about: Jewish 3G poetry, poetry film, space, mobility, cultural memory, visual culture, multilingualism and translation
Historian in Heidelberg. Undercover Californian.
