Jessica Kirzane

Nothing says Christmas Sunday like klezmer.

My New Year's resolution is to try to do more creative writing in Yiddish. yiddishbranzhe.com/2023/12/31/%...

.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.

You haven't lived until you've spent hours asking various programs and departments to sponsor little pieces of your conference travel, and then spent hours processing reimbursements, only to feel utter dread that you've gotten something wrong, as well as embarassment over the cost of your coffees.

Some thoughts for the academic recommendation letter season; a poem from the December 2023 issue of Poetry Magazine, by Keith Leonard. #poetry

And I'll just add - Jonah Lubin is a former student! nakhes shep ikh, farshteyt zikh, on a shier.

It's a fascinating passage about different kinds of knowledge of the world (street smarts and book smarts) and how children share them with one another, expanding one another's horizons and also destroying one another's innocence.

Dovid | Yiddish Book Center A chapter from Mimi Pinzon's novel The Courtyard without Windows, translated by Jonah Lubin.

Drop everything and read Jonah Lubin's translation from Mimi Pinzón’s novel Der Hoyf on Fentster, published on the website of the Yiddish Book Center.

מײַסטער־קלאַס פֿון פּראָזע בײַם „אַרבעטער־רינג‟ ווי ס׳איז פֿריִער אַנאָנסירט געוואָרן, ווערן דורכן "זום" דורכגעפֿירט 5 מײַסטער־קלאַסן פֿון ייִדישער פּראָזע, �...

Excited to be included in this assortment of stories by students in Boris Sandler's Yiddish prose writing class at The Workers Circle!

I have encountered Helena Frank's translations before (and even taught them!) but I had no idea what a significant founding figure she was! So grateful to learn more about her.

567 Your Dream Guest: Jessica Kirzane on Translating Yiddish Literature | My Last Book with Jack Zip... Your wish is our command! Jacke talks to listener-nominated "dream guest" Dr. Jessica Kirzane about her work with Yiddish literature, including her recen…

What fun to spend time talking about Miriam Karpilove as a guest on the History of Literature Podcast!

Just wrote a letter of recommendation for a student I care about and believe in so much that even doing the hard and thankless work of writing a letter of recommendation was nothing but pure pride and pleasure.

I know where you can get some good tea, though, according to "a famous writer"...

Shachar Pinsker translates Avrom Karpinovitsh's 1951 story פֿאַרגעס נישט / Don't Forget, which, as Pinsker explains, "shows the prox­im­i­ty between the trau­ma of the Holo­caust and the trau­ma of the 1948 War."

Heartbreaking

This was the question I was faced with in early October and did not know how to answer. Thanks to all the people I crowdsourced from to gather some possibilities, and especially to Shachar Pinsker (my co-author).

"Red Dew" and "Red Dew, Again" | Yiddish Book Center A poem of courage in the face of violence; and a reprise, eighty years later.

red, autumn leaves are falling and I'm thinking of this poem again:

"My children, in the slaughter-knife wind 
Red dew drips from the world’s dawn. 
Don’t be uprooted by the slashing wind 
Grow stronger, green brighter!"

A new Yiddish poem by Ber Kotlerman, composed on Motsei Simchat Torah 5784, and translated by @zanykirz.bsky.social

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Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesSunday After the War · Daniel Kahn · the Painted BirdLost Causes℗ 2010 Oriente Musik OHGReleased on: 2010-11-16... Sunday After the War

Had this song on my mind today

I hope you can give yourself some grace. This is a horrible time, and no one should expect you to know how to do your job.

Thank God you are safe. I don't know what else to say but I'm thinking about you.

You're right - the Yiddish Shabesdik more broadly means festive or sacred - I wonder if Sunday has historically had this broader meaning in English?

🎵Put on your Sunday clothes when you feel down and out!

English has it too, I think: your Sunday best

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!)

"All night parties with 6000 Jews decked out in literary and artistic costumes, the Shnorer Balls must have been wild. One can only imagine the thousands of partiers cosplaying their favorite characters from literature and the arts all at the behest of the Shnorers."

Let's relive this please.

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.

Or maybe get me some Kristmes dzshuleri?

Koved ir ondenk.