Sarah Biskowitz

It was a dream come true to work as an RA at the @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social 's Great Jewish Books high school program, which had ignited my own love for Yiddish when I participated in 2016. I met and taught incredible teens, alongside my wonderful co-RAs (pictured below)!

Registration is now open for #Yiddish classes and #klezmer workshops at the Workers Circle. Whether you’re a beginner or advanced, there’s something for everyone this summer. Don’t miss your chance to make this summer better with Yiddish. Register today: shorturl.at/kVg8D

I will be teaching a beginner Yiddish class this summer on Zoom for the Workers Circle. Tuesdays 6:30 – 8:00 PM. June 24, July 1, 8, 15, 22. Please spread the word, and let me know if you have any questions!
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Moderated my first in-person book talk! It was a pleasure to discuss An American Girl Anthology: Finding Ourselves in the Pleasant Company Universe with co-editors @justineodashs.bsky.social and @kchysmith.bsky.social at @portersqbooks.bsky.social in Cambridge on Friday.

Yesterday, I took my students from my Boston Workers Circle and Lehrhaus beginner Yiddish classes to the @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social, where I first learned Yiddish. It was a dream come true for me as a teacher! We enjoyed a great tour of the museum and the special collections vault.

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Happy 10th birthday to @ingeveb.bsky.social ! I have had the pleasure of publishing several pieces with In geveb since 2021. Please consider contributing to help In geveb continue to support and compensate writers and provide their excellent free content to us all!

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This academic year, I gave various talks on feminist Yiddish culture and literature to student groups at Mount Holyoke, MIT, and Wellesley. I also spoke twice at Brandeis, once for the Reform chavurah and once for the Yiddish class. It was a pleasure to meet so many brilliant college students!

May 23rd, Cambridge MA with @sarahbiskowitz.bsky.social ♥️

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Last night, I taught the final class of my series of six beginner Yiddish language classes at Lehrhaus in Cambridge, MA. It was a lively, wonderful group!

Sefardi Folk Culture Grows in Cambridge Sefardi Jewish culture boasts beautiful music, delicious food, and a fascinating language, Judeo-Spanish (also known as Ladino). Unfortunately, in the US, mainstream Jewish communities often erase …

My interview for @lilithmagazine.bsky.social about the young, grassroots Sefardi culture club in my neighborhood :)
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A wonderful report from #Farbindungen25 Bad Yiddish courtesy of @ingeveb.bsky.social! Thanks to Judy Goldstein for taking the time to write this wonderful piece!

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So proud of @farbindungen.bsky.social and thanks, Judy, for this lovely review!

זאָל זי האָבן אַ ליכטיקן גן־עדן

Conducted my eighteenth Wexler Oral History interview (and third entirely in Yiddish) as a field fellow for the @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social ! Pictured here with the fabulous Leye, a former Boston Workers Circle Yiddish teacher.

YouTube video by Farbindungen Yiddish Conference Farbindungen 2025: Keynote Panel w/ Saul Noam Zaritt and Natan M. Meir

It's been 2 weeks since #Farbindungen25 Bad Yiddish, and we're still thinking about all of the amazing panels and talks! You can now watch the incredible keynote address, by @saulnoamz.bsky.social and Natan M. Meir, available on our YouTube channel!

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A shmueskrayz with the Los Angeles Yiddishists from a couple weeks ago :)

My daughter is a fellow in this year's #RisingVoices cohort and has so appreciated how the program has helped her develop as a writer, an activist, and a feminist.

Know a kiddo who wants to develop their literary voice? @jwaonline.bsky.social is accepting apps through 4/1. jwa.org/risingvoices

A sketch with notes in Yiddish letters, titled Farbindungen panel 1, with yellow and teal details, a streetscape, a hasty Freud and a mini-Bashevis.

#Farbindungen25 panel 1 — underworlds, shund, and disappointments.

It was such an amazing time organizing @farbindungen.bsky.social 2026 with these incredible people!

Title slide for "A Trans Linguistic Perspective on Yiddish Language Learning" by Hannah Lukow and Joshua Raclaw

Everybody get in we're going to talk about trans and nonbinary people learning Yiddish

A streengrab of a PowerPoint cover slide discussing Yiddish and crisco

The first slide of a PowerPoint that says “I want her so bad”—writing Yiddish lesbo-erotica

Text that says “akh, my bagel baker woman”

If you aren’t at #Farbindungen2025, you’re missing the Yiddish history of Crisco, Yiddish erotic lesbian poetry, and Yiddish as a fandom 🔥
@farbindungen.bsky.social

As Jews, we are obligated to welcome the stranger and protect the vulnerable -- and the Administrations's mass deportation efforts undermine these very values.

Made a Yiddishist starter pack...let me know if I should add anyone :) go.bsky.app/B3QwrtA

If you would like to hear about nonbinary Yiddish and also see other people talking about the most interesting things about learning Yiddish you should come to our panel next monday, it is just happening on the internet and registration is free bit.ly/registerfarb...

Also love that the header image is a pic of me and some of the Boston-area Yiddish khevre :)

Demonic Delight: A Review of “Bashevis’s Demons” - The Commentator Yiddish is a language and culture that constantly seems under threat of “dying.” However, in the words of Nobel Prize winning Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer: “In Jewish history, between dying an...

Nice review of the Congress for Jewish Culture's Bashevis's Demons Yiddish play in The Commentator, the independent student newspaper of Yeshiva University.

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What activists for at-risk languages can learn from each other אַ העלפֿט פֿון די בערך 7,000 שפּראַכן אױף דער ערד זענען אין אַ סכּנה — צוליב אָן אַ שיִער היסטאָרישע אַנטװיקלונגען, בפֿרט קאָלאָניאַליזם, נאַציאָנאַליזם, גענאָציד און גלאָבאַליזאַציע. דערבײַ װאַקסן דא...

Fascinating and well-written article in Yiddish by Jake Schneider in the Forverts. Love its discussion of Ross Perlin's work.

וואָס אַקטיוויסטן פֿאַר שפּראַכן אין אַ סכּנה קענען זיך אָפּלערנען איינער פֿונעם צווייטן
What activists for at-risk languages can learn from each other

Graphic of schedule for Farbindungen 2025, day 1. A text-only schedule is included in the post above, which includes one line of Yiddish text in Panel 1, but is otherwise written in Roman characters.

Graphic of schedule for Farbindungen 2025, day 2.

#Farbindungen25 Bad Yiddish is in just two weeks!

Take a look at the full schedule below to learn more about this year's panels, workshops, and keynote. The conference runs February 2-3.

Register here - bit.ly/registerfarbindungen25
Full-text schedule - bit.ly/Farbindungen...

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Women Religious Workers in Eastern Europe | Jewish Women's Archive In nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Eastern Europe, Jewish women served their communities as spiritual leaders and paid religious functionaries. The main women’s leadership roles documented in ...

@annsplaining.bsky.social 's new amazing reader for @jwaonline.bsky.social highlights Ashkenazi women's leadership in healthcare & healing, the expression of emotion, & connection with ancestry, "broaden[ing] our understanding not only of women’s religious role, but of Ashkenazi Judaism itself."