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happy to see fanzine hemmorhage out of retirement & even happier to see them covering freak out, usa #1, published in fall 1967. fanzinehemorrhage.com/2026/04/16/freakout-usa-...

What went wrong in Israel? A genocide scholar examines ‘what Zionism became’ In his new book, Omer Bartov tracks how a liberatory strand of Zionism transformed into an extremist ideology that he sees as responsible for genocide in Gaza

"Bartov’s insistence that Zionism, as originally conceived, was essentially a movement of liberation helps explain his refusal to identify as an anti-Zionist... he does declare himself “completely, vehemently opposed to the kind of Zionism that exists today.”" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

This is maybe the most boring post ever, but I was surprised to see that antkegn is listed as a prefix in verterbukh, and furthermore, while antkegnloyfn is given as an example, antkegnloyfn is not included as one of the entries for loyfn.

#internalinconsistency

When Blasphemy Is More Important Than Cruelty, You've Missed the Point The reaction of Trump's followers to his "Trump as Jesus" meme showed more outrage than all the cruelty he has shown to millions of people. What kind of Christianity is that?

When Blasphemy Is More Important Than Cruelty, You've Missed the Point
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Allen Ginsberg throws from the mound

i'd never read this story about allen ginsberg reading "hum bom!" at candlestick park before a giants game in 1994, getting booed, then nailing an excellent first pitch. (though maybe better that there doesn't seem to be easily findable video.) […]

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"Bundists and Yiddishists" - Jack Jacobs YouTube video by IISHJvid

"There were in fact four independent Jewish socialist parties operating in the Russian empire by 1906... I'm sorely tempted to quip, tongue in cheek, that if we describe the Bund as orthodox Marxist, we can describe the others as Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist".

historic rejection of JD Vance

oh just saw this after I commented above.

Also, "Many people from those horrible nations moved to live in a country that I do consider home and it keeps murdering so many people and making it possible for other countries to murder so many people".

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

Salutsky, Jacob Benjamin 1918-08-26 Letter to Eugene V Debs on Jewish Socialist Federation of America letterhead, 08/26/1918. Writes that Morris Winchevsky and a few other Jewish socialists are preparing a book in Yiddish on Eugene V De...

amazing what's on the web. doesn't seem that Debs wrote the requested special preface to the Yiddish edition.

Browsing through the shelves at the Yiddish Book Center, I found and bought this. "Eugene Victor Debs: His Life, Writing, and Speeches". Jewish Socialist Federation of America, 1919.

so many treasures in verterbukh

“When civilians are killed in large numbers and it becomes public, the United States military, going back hundreds of years, has felt a moral obligation, being a Western, not an Eastern country, to apologize for the death of innocents and punish the people responsible. It's happened a lot. Because we don't do things like that. Israel does do things like that. Israel sets off pagers in the pockets of people that they can't identify. They're just out there. They're going to go off and they'll kill some terrorists and maybe some others, which they did. And that's a price they're willing to pay. That's not a price that we're willing to pay, because we're not Israel.”

This is perhaps the prime example of how an anti-Israel politics can be rooted in right-wing rather than left-wing framing - not a universal call for equal rights, but “We’re Western; they’re Eastern.”

another Yiddish class where about an hour into it I'm thinking, "oh this is good I can understand about 80% of what's being said", and then my brain says, "ok that's enough, I'm shutting off now" and then it's just like words bouncing off my ears.

In the last several months & maybe longer, Susan Abulhawa has steadily adopted the framing & terminology of the fascist anti-Zionist Right. It's been sad to see. Elon Musk's algorithms can fry anyone's brain if they're not careful. But nobody benefits from downplaying this

Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

The Addams Family legacy lives on | Penn Today Former Penn student Charles Addams’ creations are back on the silver screen in a new 3D computer-animated film, more than 80 years after the characters were created by the artist.

דאָס איז די זעלבע צײכענונג װאָס טשאַרלס אַדאַמס האָט געמאַכט פֿאַר די פּען זשורנאַל אַון עס װײַזט אַפֿילו דאָס ״קאַלעדזש האַל״ צײכן.

איך האָב געקױפֿט אַ נײַע פּאַזל. עס איז זײער שײן, אָבער ״זאַך״ פֿעלט!

Lawsuit to Restore the NEH - AHA Major Update in our NEH Lawsuit Discovery in NEH Lawsuit Reveals How Humanities Grants Were Cancelled On March 6, 2026, the American Historical Association and our co-plaintiffs filed a motion for sum...

A lot of the grants were classified as not DEI by ChatGPT (including two Yiddish-focused grants I was on). But they almost all got cut anyway. The ChatGPT responses are Exhibit 11 here: www.historians.org/why-history-...

I was a PI on one Yiddish-focused grant, and a subaward on another Yiddish-focused grant, and they were both listed by ChatGPT as not DEI, but were cancelled anyway.

New Merch: “Yiddish Is Dying" Inspirational Wall Calendar | In geveb To celebrate the upcoming one-year anniversary of our ten-year anniversary, we are pleased to announce our new fundraising appeal, the “Yiddish is Dying” Inspir

NEW merch alert: just in time for Purim, a "Yiddish is Dying" Inspirational Wall Calendar!

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hmm, this article refers to:

דעם ״פֿיקטיװן זאצגליד״ עס

So this seems clearly to be the expletive es. Was my reading before of "tsugob" to mean the expletive wrong? Maybe some difference I'm not seeing?

escaping from the world by reading more of this 1927 Soviet Yiddish syntax article, and it refers to a "bamerkzats", which in the context must mean "parenthetical" - remark sentence.

This statement from the Israeli left is so much better than most of what American Jewish organizations can manage.

At some point I need to get back to reading this stuff from the Morgn Freiheit.

״דער צוגאָב ע ס״

tsugob here must be the same as "expletive" in today's terminology, sort of like an "accessory" meaning listed in the dictionary for tsugob.

It's great fun to read, in Yiddish from 1927, a corpus analysis of some Sholem Aleichem stories: "...in 666 cases (of the 1255 of the verb in 2nd position), in 1st position is the subject, in 521 cases, another sentence-part (or a entire subordinate clause), in 68 cases - the expletive "es" ...

encyclopedia.yivo.org/article/1016

About Ayzik Zaretski, a Soviet Yiddish linguist in the 1920s and 30s. I'm reading some articles by him, which are quite interesting, but then there's this kind of thing. What is it with these Bundists who went Bolshevik?