Haim Gottschalk

Reclaiming the Ladino Left The early 20th century saw a flurry of left activism by Ladino-speaking Sephardic Jews in the US. Recovering their legacy can enrich the Jewish left of…

The forgotten history of the Ladino Left unveils an alternate legacy of Jewish radicalism. Overlooked by dominant Ashkenazi-Yiddish narratives, this movement fought for socialism and solidarity with marginalized communities.

By Devin E. Naar in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social

Read all about the latest and greatest the USTC has been up to in our Library Quarterly!
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#Ressource | Call for submisisons for In geveb’s peer review, pedagogy, translation, and blog sections on Yiddish archives | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...

#Yiddish #archive #research #memoirs #translations

Deadline for submission: March 6, 2026

#Chancen | Brown University seeks to fill a two-year appointment as International Humanities Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Jewish mystical tradition | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...

Deadline for applications: February 1, 2026 | 11:59 PM ET

#Event | Jordan Finkin on Yiddish culture work

Monday, February 2, 2026 | 6 - 7pm CET | On Zoom

Link: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-2026-n...

JHSE Grant Applications Apply for a grant of up to £4,000 to facilitate research and publication on topics related to Anglo-Jewry and its wider context. Both individuals and institutions are eligible to apply including profe...

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Apply for a #grant of up to £4k for research related to Anglo-Jewry.

Individuals and institutions may apply: professional or lay scholars, PhD students, organisations, museums, libraries, archives.

Deadline: April 2026

Visit: www.jhse.org/jhse-awards

www.jhse.org/post/jhse-gr...

Tweet from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum: "Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges."

The US Holocaust Museum being more outraged by Tim Walz saying that, like Anne Frank, children today are in hiding from armed agents of the state, than they are about the fact that children are in hiding from armed agents of the state, is why Holocaust remembrance culture is in crisis.

Love this photo!!

Snow covers the Library of Congress grounds in Washington, D.C., January 8, 2025. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.

NOTICE: Due to inclement weather, all Library of Congress buildings on Capitol Hill and in Culpeper, Va. will be closed on Tuesday, January 27, 2026.

Photo of the Library of Congress Madison Building covered in snow by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.

Mazal tov to the 2026 winners of the Sydney Taylor Book Award!

~SHABBAT SHALOM: LET'S REST AND RESET by Suzy Ultman
~NESHAMA by Marcella Pixley
~D.J. ROSENBLUM BECOMES THE G.O.A.T. by Abby White

Winners at tinyurl.com/STBA2026
#STBA #AJL
Marcella Pixley
Abby White

Sydney Taylor Body-of-Work Award Winner 2026: Uri Shulevitz. A foundational voice in Jewish children’s literature, Uri Shulevitz created picture books that illuminate Jewish culture & reflect universal experience.

#ALAYMA #ALA #STBA #AJL @JewishLibraries
Winners here: tinyurl.com/STBA2026

YouTube video by Auschwitz Memorial / Miejsce Pamięci Auschwitz "On Auschwitz" (55): The Evacuation and Liberation of Auschwitz in the Accounts of Witnesses

Some 7,500 prisoners of Auschwitz, including over 500 children, were liberated on January 27, 1945 by Red Army soldiers.

Listen to fragments of testimonies of 20 Survivors who talk about the last days of the camp's operation and the moment of liberation.
https://youtu.be/-6IFHxqGgdE

Only 3 weeks until the CfP closes — come join us for our third NGG conference at UCL!

I'm working on it.

I wonder if this applies to Congressional staff.

Nomination and selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates - NobelPrize.org A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize may be submitted by any person who meets the nomination criteria. A letter of invitation to submit is not required. The names of the nominees and other informati...

Some thoughts:

1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.

2. History professors are qualified nominators.

3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.

4. He would be so mad.

The University of Vienna
@univie.ac.at invites applications for at least 40 fully funded, 4-year doctoral positions. I am one of the potential supervisors. If you have an exciting, innovative PhD project on modern #JewishHistory, please feel free to apply: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

An introduction to Jewish terminology for cataloguing - hiddentreasurenew Workshop: Jewish terminology for cataloguing

Jewish material can present unique challenges to those working with it.

This blog runs through some top tips for archivists and others working with Jewish material, including reading Hebrew and caring for sacred texts.

Read more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/an-intr...

#Blog #Archives

Warning: Reports indicate immigration checkpoints along major interstates in Oklahoma, with Interstate 40 most impacted.

#Talk | Albert and Liese Eckstein Scholar-in-Residence: "Credit to the Nation: East European Jewish Bankers and American Finance" with Rebecca Kobrin

10. März 2026 03:00 AM CET on Zoom or in person

Registrierung: jewishstudies.asu.edu/Eckstein2026

NEH awards $75.1 million in grants to 84 humanities projects, including research, education, and public programs on the U.S. 250th anniversary. tinyurl.com/3a37thbk

USAJOBS connects job seekers with federal jobs across the United States and around the world as the official employment site for the federal government <p>This position is located in the General and International Collections Directorate, Researcher and Collections Services.</p> <p>The position description number for this position is 012792.</p> <p>Th...

#JobPosting Section Head of the Hebraic Section @librarycongress.bsky.social

This position involves supervising the section's staff, planning work, and ensuring timely reference service to patrons. The starting salary is $132,368 - $172,075 per year.

to apply:
www.usajobs.gov/job/854206200

We are pleased to announce our Spring 2026 Holiday Highlights list: the best new children's books about Jewish holidays!
jewishlibraries.org/...

Our precious #Shakespeare first folio of 1623 recently underwent some conservation treatment. Read all about it in our latest blog: specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=31272

Deadline 12th January for two exciting jobs at Wiener — below freelance opportunity and a fixed term Engagement and Community Outreach Officer. See below…

#Chancen | The American Academy for Jewish Research invites submissions for the Salo Wittmayer Baron Book Prize | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...

#jewishstudies #book

Deadline for submissions: January 31, 2026

Library of Congress Celebrates America’s 250 Years Throughout 2026, the Library of Congress invites all Americans to further appreciate the nation’s history by exploring the Library’s collections and expertise through exhibitions and programming.

In 2026, we invite you to appreciate America’s history & celebrate the semiquincentennial by exploring Library collections through exhibitions & special programming. https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/library-of-congress-celebrates-america-s-250-years/s/f24d73a1-2beb-4ca8-bbb7-49ebc3f65145?loclr=blsky

#BookTalk | David Mazower with Eddy Portnoy on the exhibition catalog Yiddish: A Global Culture | Co-sponsored by the Yiddish Book Center | Online and free
On January 14, 2026 | 1:00pm ET | 7:00pm CET |

#yiddish #culture #Literature

Registration: secure2.convio.net/yivo/site/Ti...

#Max Weinreich Fellowship Lecture in Polish Jewish Studies | Tomasz M. Jankowski, Vilnius University in Lithuania, on “Dancing Modernity: Popular Yiddish Music in Interwar Poland and Lithuania”

On January 15, 2026 | 1:00pm ET | 7:00pm CET | Registration:
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