Tomasz (Ma)ksymil(ian) Majtczak

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:
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The Latest in Yiddish Studies in English: 2025 | In geveb The latest installment of our annual effort to gather together the latest publications relevant to Yiddish Studies in English.

the latest in Yiddish Studies in English: 2025 edition

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It is going to be a great event, don't miss it!

Table with Jewish (LXX, Rabbinic), Syriac, Samaritan, and Arabic letter names. The reconstructed forms are *ʾā́lap; *bēt; *gī́mal; *dā́lat; *hē; *wāw; *zay(n); *ḥēt; *ṭēt; *yōd, *yōt; *kap; *lā́mad, *lā́bad; *mīm, *mēm; *nūn; *simkat; *ʿayn; *pē; *ṣādē; *qōp; *rēš; *šīn; *tāw.

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

Xeirographa A guided learning platform for reading Greek manuscripts with interactive transcription exercises.

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

Hebräische Handschriften - Google Arts & Culture in der ULB Sachsen-Anhalt

*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:

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#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

CFP for MLN's inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue press.jhu.edu/journals/mln

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

Yiddish-speaking students praise recent Yiddish retreat in Romania איבער 70 ייִדישיסטן זענען געקומען קיין קלויזנבורג צו שטודירן דאָס ייִדיש פֿונעם ראַטן־פֿאַרבאַנד, פּוילן און רומעניע.

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Confs: Tools for Minoritized Languages The YAR (ANR) and Cais (B-Monde/Agile Cymru) projects are co-organizing a workshop on tools for minority languages with a focus on teaching contexts. The workshop will take place on 5 May 2026 in Brittany (France), at Technopôle Brest-Iroise in Plouzane, on the premises of the Institut National Polytechnique de Bretagne. The aim of the workshop is to discuss the digital practices of teachers, learners, and speakers of minoritized languages and “non-standard” variants. How can we integrate

Confs: Tools for Minoritized Languages

*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:

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#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.

Making - and Teaching with - Proste Yiddish - Simple Yiddish | In geveb Proste Yiddish is a podcast especially created for Yiddish learners which aims to be comprehensible for those in their first few years of learning.

NEW: an interview with Esther Singer, conducted by Jessica Kirzane, about the Proste Yiddish (Simple Yiddish) podcast 🦚

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#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:

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Yiddish Seminar Yiddish Seminar The 24th International Summer Seminar in Yiddish Language and Culture29.06-17.07.26In the first half of the 20th century, Warsaw was not only one of the most...

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Animals in Premodern Japan This Open Access book is presented with an outlook on current developments in Japanese Animal Ethics and how Andō Shōeki's depictions of non-human animals.

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Melissa Ann Kaul: Animals in Premodern Japan. The Encyclopaedia of Andô Shôeki 安藤昌益 (1703-1762), 2026

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Generation J - International Yiddish Culture Youth Program in Paris & Weimar An alternative Jewish camp, a Yiddish youth movement, an arts program - Generation J is all that and much more! Explore your bridge into Yiddish worlds today!

www.generationj.eu

Farbindungen / פֿאַרבינדונגען Yiddish Studies Conference | Yiddish at Work / ייִדיש בײ דער ארבעט
Sunday, February 15th and Monday, February 16th | virtual

Join us as we look towards the futures of Yiddish and Yiddish Studies through showcasing the work of graduate students and early career scholars.