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if you're in Montreal, come on Mon, 24 Feb to the Jewish Studies Dept. I will be talking about interwar yeshivas, and how all this edu business was (under)funded. Come for Hasidic revival, stay for uncanny parallels with today's academia!

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My article on black kasha in Chabad is out! Had much fun writing about shvartse kashe, its history and contemporary uses, as well as food and nostalgia in Judaism. You can access it the latest Jewish Quarterly Review at muse.jhu.edu/article/952522

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friends, if you're feeling tormented about what it means to be a modern Jew, I've got a book for that

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A Discovery of Lost Pages Brings to Light a ‘Last Great Yiddish Novel’ Joseph Berger on Chaim Grade's “Sons and Daughters,” translated by Rose Waldman and forthcoming from Knopf www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/b...

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“Let me tell you how I first travelled to the Tzemach Tzedek. It was before Pesach, 1865. The ice was already beginning to crack. You could no longer travel with a sled upon the Dnieper. But I knew I must travel to the Rebbe! He was ill, and who knows? 1/3

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One day, I too would like to sled down the Dnieper to Lubavitch

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“Let me tell you how I first travelled to the Tzemach Tzedek. It was before Pesach, 1865. The ice was already beginning to crack. You could no longer travel with a sled upon the Dnieper. But I knew I must travel to the Rebbe! He was ill, and who knows? 1/3

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I spent some time at the post office today

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Looks like I’m collecting “ of ” books. What should I get next?

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author's copies have arrived!

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author's copies have arrived!

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Sharing via @seforimchatter.bsky.social elsewhere since he's not so much here...THIS WILL BE AMAZING. @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social 😍 @emwjournal.bsky.social @wsguk.bsky.social @jwaonline.bsky.social #earlymodern www.amazon.com/dp/069126861...

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This was a truly wild read www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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My contribution to this week's @jewishcurrents.bsky.social newsletter: on the proto-socialist miracle of the heavenly manna bread and the liberating restrictions of Shabbat scroll down to read the parshah commentary jewishcurrents.org/shabbat-read...

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The British Academy International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution (such as @uclhjs.bsky.social) with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

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Now published: the pioneering study of @uclhjs.bsky.social graduate Eli Rubin @elirubin.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/kabbal... Everyone has OBVIOUSLY to order it RIGHT AWAY!

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evidence has reached me that this book actually exists! (courtesy of my colleague, the great Tzvi Freeman)

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evidence has reached me that this book actually exists! (courtesy of my colleague, the great Tzvi Freeman)

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Upward Without Limit: 7 Teachings From Basi Legani 5725 my attempt to summarize and explain the key points from a maamer whose complexity and sophistication is simply extraordinary, originally delivered by the Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1965 www.chabad.org/therebbe/art...

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Upward Without Limit: 7 Teachings From Basi Legani 5725 my attempt to summarize and explain the key points from a maamer whose complexity and sophistication is simply extraordinary, originally delivered by the Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1965 www.chabad.org/therebbe/art...

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sharing again for the moitzey shabbos crowd

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Even those who already know a bit about the Emden Eybeschutz controversy will find this @jewishideaspod.bsky.social conversation with Dr. Maoz Kahana eye opening open.spotify.com/episode/5BIP...

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just published! In Lubavitch a Home Was Built: The Life and Times of Rebbetzin Rivkah Schneersohn (1834-1914) - Part 2 chabad.org/6763123

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just published! In Lubavitch a Home Was Built: The Life and Times of Rebbetzin Rivkah Schneersohn (1834-1914) - Part 2 chabad.org/6763123

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Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

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Upcoming HDS Webinar - 2/3 “Empire and Epistemicide: Historical Perspectives on the Rhetoric of Peace and its Erasures” www.hds.harvard.edu/news/public-...

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1/30— Harvard CSWR will host a talk focused on Elliot R. Wolfson’s book Nocturnal Seeing: Hope of Hopelessness and Philosophical Gnosis by Susan Taubes, Gillian Rose, and Edith Wyschogrod. The event will feature a presentation by the author and a discussion with/ Shaul Magid and Bettina Bergo

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No cover yet, but we have a final title, a price, a page count, and jacket copy, so it’s feeling real! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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My book How the Rabbis Became Experts is now available for preorder! Officially out on Apr 22, 2025. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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‏דער וואס האט זיך געהאלטן ביים דעם אלטן רבינ'ס קליאמקע וועט ער שוין נישט שטארבן אן תשובה — ‏תורת שלום, הוספות, ע' 300

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New article! Chabad’s First Succession Controversy: Being, Nothingness, and Prolific Publication excerpted from Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity chabad.org/6752312

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New article! Chabad’s First Succession Controversy: Being, Nothingness, and Prolific Publication excerpted from Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity chabad.org/6752312

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FEATURED JOB: Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Haverford College support our regular offerings in pre-modern Judaism, but could also offer broader Jewish studies courses Submit application apply.interfolio.com/160944 by February 3, 2025 www.haverford.edu/provost/news...

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Welcome new followers! I'm a scholar who researches the intellectual history of Modern Kabbalah, and of Chabad Hasidism in particular. To get a flavor of the kind of things I think about, listen in on my conversation with the Podcast of Jewish Ideas: open.spotify.com/episode/1zRW...

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Sur la route vers Lianvawitschi le 14 Aout On the road to Lianvawitschi [Lubavitch] on August 14 [1812] From Adam Albrecht (1786-1862), Voyage pittoresque et militaire de Willenberg en Prusse jusqu'a Moscou fait en 1812, pris sur le terrain méme et lithographié (1827)

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Can't wait to teach it.

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Why @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social refuses to publish the Yiddish original is beyond me.

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good analysis here

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Chabad headquarters - 770 Eastern Parkway, July 31, 1964: Chaim Grade (right) stands on the staircase in the antechamber, looking through the doorway of the Rebbe’s office, as the room is cleared to allow President Shazar of Israel to confer with the Rebbe in private

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