@sgollance
Associate Prof. of Yiddish at UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Book: It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity (Stanford UP). Working on Yiddish plays by women. Yiddish, German, dance, theatre, gender studies. https://soniagollance.com
We've contributed to Historic England's blog with a piece on England's oldest theatres 🎭
A question to which there isn't an easy answer, but hopefully sparks some discussion - and highlights some amazing buildings along the way 🏛️
heritagecalling.com/2026/03/05/t...
"Malvina Reynolds (1900-1978), a[ Jewish] American songwriter and political activist[...] went on to write a song inspired by the group, titled Do as the Doukhobors Do. The song was part of the American folk revival scene of the 1960s."
#Chancen | The @lbilondon.bsky.social invites submissions for the LBI Year Book Essay Prize | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...
#History #Research #Essay
Deadline for applications: February 28, 2026
#Event | The @dubnow.bsky.social Leipzig invites papers for an international conference on The Age of Humanitarianism from December 7 to 8, 2026 at the Dubnow Institute in Leipzig | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...
#Migration #conference
Deadline for submissions: March 27, 2026
Looking forward to speaking on a Yiddish theatre panel (w/ Isaac Bashevis Singer’s granddaughter) hosted by Jewish Renaissance prior to the 15 March performance of ‘Yentl’ by the Kadimah Yiddish Theatre at the Marylebone Theatre.
@artshumsucl.bsky.social
www.jewishrenaissance.org.uk/events/the-y...
Our 2026 Women's History Month sale is here! Browse our collection of women's history and studies books from the past five years, and use code PENN-WHM2026 to save 40% at checkout (plus orders over $40 ship for free). Now through March 31! https://bit.ly/4d2JVFT
Come and work with us at Glasgow! Full time permanent post in History of Art: lecturer in material and visual culture with specialism in dress history or textile history. Details below 👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQR311/l...
Nice piece in @forward.com about the dynamic new London-based Yiddish/Jewish culture organization Jargon.
forward.com/yiddish-non-...
*scholarship programs*
For doctoral researchers, the Herzog August Library—together with private foundations—offers a range of funding opportunities to support scholarly work with its collections.
Annual application deadlines: 1 April and 1 October
www.hab.de/doktoranden-...
Debit and Credit (Soll und Haben) by Gustav Freytag, enormously popular 19th century German Realist novel about the triumph of the virtuous Protestant capitalists over the aristocrats and Jews. CW: antisemitism (there is good scholarship on this), anti-Polish sentiment
BREAKING: Controversy Over Mamdani’s Declaration of Yiddish as THE Official Jewish Language
ingeveb.org/blog/mamdani
From @jewishreviewbooks.bsky.social: “Two works of Yiddish literature, both titled Zerubavel, offered creative retellings of elements of the Purim story without trying to hide the fact that they were actually talking about their own time and place.”
jewishreviewofbooks.substack.com/p/the-spirit...
Hard to be brilliant when you're worried about sleeping with students.
I translated a letter from Lesia Ukrainka to Olha Kobylianska for my students, and since it's Lesia's birthday, here it is - with a short essay on why she matters right now. open.substack.com/pub/uilleamb...
CFP for MLN's inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue press.jhu.edu/journals/mln
Scholars of Jewish languages and literatures: You still have time to submit to our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue edited by @samspinner.bsky.social
Tomorrow: @returnstosender.bsky.social's talk at UCL about his and Harriet Murav's new @stanfordpress.bsky.social collection of Soviet stories about the Holocaust. Free event, registration required.
Attendees can also purchase the book with a nice discount.
Black and white photo of a man in glasses and a cap about to drink tea from a saucer.
Today my students and I watched this wonderful clip of renowned Soviet Yiddish actor Solomon Mikhoels drinking a tea while savoring all possible gestures. It is delightful and they loved it.
www.google.com/search?q=sol...
"The Winchester TheWinchesterGallery Gallery University of Southampton BERNAT KLEIN: COLOUR AND CONTEXTS 'Jews in Suits: Men's Dress in Vienna, 1890-1938' Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum & 'Woven Colour, Worn Identity: Beyond Grey, Rethinking Men's Colour' Bruce Montgomery, chaired by Shaum Cole Thursday 5th March 2-3.30p Lecture Theatre A, Winchester School of Art and online via Teams"
Ahead of The Winchester Gallery’s Bernat Klein exhibition (20 Apr–30 May), join the Colour & Contexts seminar!
Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum & Bruce Montgomery explore men’s dress, identity & colour.
📌 5 March 2026, 2–3.30pm, Lecture Theatre A + Teams.
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
Next month our Senior Archivist is joining a roundtable discussion @lbilondon.bsky.social, Kindertransport in British Memory and Culture
The event will bring together scholars and practitioners to examine the Kindertransport through archives, testimony, and reflective practice 🔗
#Chancen | POLIN Museum invites applications for its second Summer School program for early-career scholars – doctoral students & post-docs | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...
#SummerSchool #Warsaw
Deadline for applications: March 31, 2026
One more week to get yourself a grant, translators!
Interesting insight into what one particular format of document can be mined to tell us: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Here's my new blog post about Jewish dance cards and a recent UCL bicentennial event where we learned Edwardian ballroom dances from a Jewish dance card in @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social to the same tunes that were performed in 1909. #UCL200
In partnership with @uclhjs.bsky.social and the UCL IJS.
Das Bild zeigt einen Blick über die Champs-Élysées in Paris in Richtung des Geschäftsviertels La Défense.
📣 FMS-DHIP-#Stipendium zur Erforschung der #Shoah in #Frankreich und #Westeuropa
📌 einjähriger Forschungsaufenthalt in #Paris | für #Promovierende sowie #Postdocs | ausgeschrieben vom @dhi-paris.fr und der @fondationshoah.bsky.social
📅 Bewerbungsfrist: 01.04.2026
🔗 www.dhiparis.fr/file...
Really interesting Yiddish Studies CFP for special issue of PaRDeS: Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany on "Yiddish in Times of Crisis."
Abstracts due March 31, 2026
@juedstudien.bsky.social @ingeveb.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
THREE lectureships available in the Music Department @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kingsmusic.bsky.social — see advertisements in the thread below.
"Dance lessons gave young people an opportunity to experiment with romantic sentiments... in a familiar and well-supervised environment."
Learn more about changes in Jewish courtship on the dance floor––my book "It Could Lead to Dancing" is now on sale ($21 paperback for US/Canada orders).
Happy 200th birthday to UCL, the first English university to admit Jews. Hebrew and Jewish Studies have been taught at UCL since day one. #UCL200
Learn more about the the history of @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social here: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
@artshumsucl.bsky.social @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social
Else Lasker-Schüler (born #OTD in 1869) was a German-Jewish poet and playwright famous for her bohemian lifestyle in Berlin and her poetry. She fled Nazi Germany in 1934 and lived out the rest of her life in Jerusalem.
en.wikipedia.org/wik...
I had some fun exploring the Frankfurt Jewish Museum’s online collection and finding objects like this 17th century embroidered Tora-Wimpel (tora binder).
sammlung.juedischesmuseum.de/objekt/tora-...