Sam Glauber

The living dead: in search of Hasidism at the Bratslaver Shtiblekh of Warsaw The Hasidic prayer rooms of the Bratslaver Hasidim of Warsaw were the site of an extensive encounter between the Hasidic group and the broader public during the interwar period. These shtiblekh (si...

New article: "The Living Dead: In Search of Hasidism at the Bratslaver Shtiblekh of Warsaw"

On the visitors (including Marc Chagall!) who came to sing, dance, and study with the Bratslav Hasidim of Warsaw

Open-access in East European Jewish Affairs

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Gorgeous cover of ha-Shahar, an illustatrated Hebrew weekly for children published in Warsaw in 1912.

This level of print quality was extremely rare for Jewish publications in Eastern Europe at the time.

So many flappers

I will be presenting on "Representations of Women and Womanhood in Yiddish Illustrated Magazines." There will be many flappers. In Yiddish. פֿלאַפּערס? Join us and find out for youself.

Link with panel details
tinyurl.com/25l6tun2

Friends and colleagues registered for AJS, please join me on Wed 18/12 at 1:30 PM EST/8:30 PM Jerusalem time, for a really exciting panel with Zuzanna Kołodziejska-Smagała and Zohar Weiman-Kelman on "Yiddish Discourses of Body, Gender, and Sexuality (1880–1939)." Naomi Seidman will be responding!

What I'm working on today

"The latest women's fashions"

- Di velt (Warsaw), 1925

I literally just asked my spouse "wait, it's not pronounced like 'twersky'?"

For my Bluesky debut...

«91 years ago today in the Yiddish press»
"A tale of 'demons' on Pańska 65"

Great demon report from the Jewish street of Warsaw - drama, intrigue, and the neighborhood rabbi who saves the day with an overside mezuzah.
(17/11/1933, Unzer Ekspres)

I'm brokenhearted that I only logged in for lot 27