@ksymil.bsky.social
Working on Old & Classical Japanese, historical grammar of Japanese, sometimes also Yiddish or Old Turkic; interested in historical linguistics and etymology. 📍 Kraków, Poland 🔗 https://sites.google.com/site/hublshpener
We accepted "The Japanese DP and the structure of its modifiers" by Viktor Köhlich langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
Applications are now open for Trinity Term 2026 classes with our Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages! Be sure to #Apply by noon on Apr. 10th, UK time!
www.ochjs.ac.uk/language-cla...
#languagelearning #oxford #jewishhistory
Jewish Quarterly Review is Now Open Access.
#jewishstudies
mjsnow.hypotheses.org/20780
Ready for some fun af der zun? 2026 is the year of the leyener, and In geveb is proud to gather the programs that allow you to do everything from dusting off your conversational Yiddish to parsing Yiddish texts:
ingeveb.org/pedagogy/pro...
the latest in Yiddish Studies in English: 2025 edition
ingeveb.org/blog/latest-...
It is going to be a great event, don't miss it!
Hey, I reconstructed some #Aramaic letter names! Going back to around 500 BCE, I guess. The similarity to #Greek is usually explained via #Phoenician, but we don't actually have any Phoenician letter names AFAIK.
On this day in 1859, the Yiddish author and playwright Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, who wrote under the pen name Sholem Aleichem, was born.
#SholemAleichem #YiddishHistory
My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources.
Please share and give feedback!
xeirographa.com
#Event | Call for Papers for an International #Conference on Jews and Encyclopedic Knowledge: 19th-21st Centuries, taking place in August 18-19, 2026 in Kyiv, Ukraine | Details: jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...
#Ukraine #Jews #knowledge #CfP
Deadline for applications: April 10, 2026
*NEWS*
Die ULB Halle hat eine virtuelle Ausstellung zu ihren hebräischen Handschriften veröffentlicht – entstanden aus früheren Katalogisierungsarbeiten und nun endlich online zugänglich.
Hier zur digitalen Sammlung:
artsandculture.google.com/story/GgXRql...
#hebräisch #handschriften
So, here's the article I have out as of today and it's #OpenAccess. It deals with one of the earliest Christian Arabic scribal workshops in the Sinai monastery, where many of the mss produced there have been preserved to this day. In this 🧵 I do a quick rundown of the most important findings. 1/n
Scholars of Jewish languages and literatures: You still have time to submit to our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue edited by @samspinner.bsky.social
Igarashi, Celik, Hirako, Aoi (eds.) 2026 Word-Prosodic Systems of Japonic Languages @ brill.com/display/titl... (OA 🙏)
Der Müterśpröhtag y Wymysoü - a unique celebration of linguistic diversity and grassroots language activism at the intersection of art, research and the transmission of knowledge #wymysiöeryś #mothertongueday
"Kaji honmatsu [仮字本末] (The origins of fake scripts)"
Interesting how context may (mis)guide one's interpretation of book titles. 🤔 (Consulting the book in question should help prevent such errors, but this is from 2000, when Ban's Kana-no motosue was not yet readily available online.)
Twelfth-century Maghribi Qur’an owned by Benito Arias Montano (1529-1598) and Franciscus Raphelengius (1539-1597). Raphelengius used the Qur’an in compiling the first major Arabic dictionary printed in Europe. Uppsala University Library, ms O Vet. 77
*Language Summer School*
#ASPIRANTUM is offering intensive #Persian summer courses in #Yerevan from June to August 2026, with flexible 6–10 week options for beginner to upper‑intermediate learners.
Applications are now open:
aspirantum.com/courses/pers...
#Chancen | POLIN Museum invites applications for its second Summer School program for early-career scholars – doctoral students & post-docs | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...
#SummerSchool #Warsaw
Deadline for applications: March 31, 2026
12. Sommerkurs Paläographie. Lateinische Schrift in Heidelberg.
Der Kurs vermittelt die Grundlagen aus zwei Jahrtausenden Schriftgeschichte (Datierung, Lokalisierung & Lesekompetenz). Wir freuen uns auf die Bewerbungen (bis 31.05.2026) 📖
#medievalsky
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I’ve had the pleasure (and great fun) to consult the book.
NEW: an interview with Esther Singer, conducted by Jessica Kirzane, about the Proste Yiddish (Simple Yiddish) podcast 🦚
ingeveb.org/blog/proste-...
#Event | Call for Papers: XXIX Symposium for Yiddish Studies in Germany, September 7–9, 2026, in Düsseldorf | Universität Trier und Universität Düsseldorf | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...
#Yiddish #Conference
Bewerbungsfrist: 13. Mai 2026
#Event | Einwöchiger Intensivkurs: Jiddisch lernen und die Kultur verstehen vom 5.- 9. Oktober 2026 an der @unitrier.bsky.social | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...
#Ressource | Call for submissions for a special issue of PaRDeS: Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany on "Yiddish in Times of Crisis." | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...
#VereinigungfürJüdischeStudien #Yiddish
Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2026
We wanted to share this Call for Papers from PaRDeS:
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
