I’ve been away from BSKY for a spell. Nearly two years on—the site has grown, the world has collapsed into ever more ruthless cruelty and chaos. & I still want folks to know #EarlyModern #WomenWrote ! #JewishHistory rocks. @womenknowhistory.bsky.social and always did!
Hi folks, let's see if anyone is here! Glikl was NOT the only pre-modern Jewish woman who wrote -- check it out! ingeveb.org/articles/wom... #women in #earlymodern #Jewish #History in #Yiddish in
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Women Wrote: Glikl in Context | In geveb
Placing Glikl's writing alongside writings by other contemporary women in central Europe reveals what characterized their shared literary and cultural context.
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June 28, 2026 at 2:35 PM
I’ve been away from BSKY for a spell. Nearly two years on—the site has grown, the world has collapsed into ever more ruthless cruelty and chaos. & I still want folks to know #EarlyModern #WomenWrote ! #JewishHistory rocks. @womenknowhistory.bsky.social and always did!
Wow, I had totally missed that the British Library has an exhibition on materiality of women’s writing! Diff from & closely related 2 #herbooks & #womenwrote #womenwhowrote. Who’s going to fly me to London asap? Have a look @mmargolis.bsky.social & #skystorians. Temp escape from annus horriblus 2025
Medieval Women and Their Handwriting
The British Library’s latest exhibition, which is now in its final days, is certainly a crowd-puller. On my visits and based on reports of others, it is often busy to the point of traffic-jams in some sections. This is no surprise: ‘Medieval Women’ may be…
The British Library’s latest exhibition, which is now in its final days, is certainly a crowd-puller. On my visits and based on reports of others, it is often busy to the point of traffic-jams in some sections. This is no surprise: ‘Medieval Women’ may be…
Medieval Women and Their Handwriting
The British Library’s latest exhibition, which is now in its final days, is certainly a crowd-puller. On my visits and based on reports of others, it is often busy to the point of traffic-jams in some sections. This is no surprise: ‘Medieval Women’ may be substantially smaller than, say, the unforgettable ‘Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms’ (2018–19) but it is, nonetheless, a cornucopia which overflows and, yes, overwhelms.
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February 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Wow, I had totally missed that the British Library has an exhibition on materiality of women’s writing! Diff from & closely related 2 #herbooks & #womenwrote #womenwhowrote. Who’s going to fly me to London asap? Have a look @mmargolis.bsky.social & #skystorians. Temp escape from annus horriblus 2025
Interesting. Local angle on Scrooge for Boston folks. And repeating story of hidden women's voices for everyone. #WomenWrote.
Merry Christmas! This is your annual reminder that A Christmas Carol was very likely inspired by writings in The Lowell Offering, a literary journal published by Lowell Mill Girls in the 1840s. www.uml.edu/News/news-ar...
Was Dickens’s Christmas Carol Borrowed from Lowell’s Mill Girls?
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December 25, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Interesting. Local angle on Scrooge for Boston folks. And repeating story of hidden women's voices for everyone. #WomenWrote.
All you #skystorians & readers have outdone yourselves and made this article the 6th most read of 2024 on In geveb: a Journal of Yiddish Studies (ingeveb.org) Much #Gratitude for light in these dark days. #earlymodern #womenwrote Countdown is here: www.facebook.com/share/p/15nV...
Hi folks, let's see if anyone is here! Glikl was NOT the only pre-modern Jewish woman who wrote -- check it out! ingeveb.org/articles/wom... #women in #earlymodern #Jewish #History in #Yiddish in
@ingeveb
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Women Wrote: Glikl in Context | In geveb
Placing Glikl's writing alongside writings by other contemporary women in central Europe reveals what characterized their shared literary and cultural context.
ingeveb.org
December 31, 2024 at 4:32 PM
All you #skystorians & readers have outdone yourselves and made this article the 6th most read of 2024 on In geveb: a Journal of Yiddish Studies (ingeveb.org) Much #Gratitude for light in these dark days. #earlymodern #womenwrote Countdown is here: www.facebook.com/share/p/15nV...
Reposting this past summer's happily dated query for new followers (Welcome!) and in honor of this week's annual conference of the Association for #JewishStudies ( #ajs2024). And because #earlymodern #Jewish #WomenWrote. + #herbook + #skystorians (whose US conference is also coming up!)
Hi folks, let's see if anyone is here! Glikl was NOT the only pre-modern Jewish woman who wrote -- check it out! ingeveb.org/articles/wom... #women in #earlymodern #Jewish #History in #Yiddish in
@ingeveb
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Women Wrote: Glikl in Context | In geveb
Placing Glikl's writing alongside writings by other contemporary women in central Europe reveals what characterized their shared literary and cultural context.
ingeveb.org
December 17, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Reposting this past summer's happily dated query for new followers (Welcome!) and in honor of this week's annual conference of the Association for #JewishStudies ( #ajs2024). And because #earlymodern #Jewish #WomenWrote. + #herbook + #skystorians (whose US conference is also coming up!)
TY new followers! Let me highlight the special issue of @ingeveb.bsky.social on Old Yiddish Literature, including yours truly on the context of 17th-18thc #Glikl 's memoirs. #WomenWrote!!! #EarlyModern #JewishStudies
#WomenAlsoKnowHistory #skyhistorians #yiddish
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#WomenAlsoKnowHistory #skyhistorians #yiddish
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Old Yiddish Literature | In geveb
This special issue assembles a range of original contributions that shed light on the historical and cultural dimensions of Old Yiddish literature.
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November 15, 2024 at 5:28 PM
TY new followers! Let me highlight the special issue of @ingeveb.bsky.social on Old Yiddish Literature, including yours truly on the context of 17th-18thc #Glikl 's memoirs. #WomenWrote!!! #EarlyModern #JewishStudies
#WomenAlsoKnowHistory #skyhistorians #yiddish
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#WomenAlsoKnowHistory #skyhistorians #yiddish
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Well, there are people here now! Welcome! My current soap box: #EarlyModern #Jewish #WomenWrote. The amazing Glikl bas Judah Leib AND Jewish women. Some she knew; some she didn't. Early modern #WomenAlsoKnowHistory (knew history ; - ). @ingeveb.bsky.social
November 21, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Well, there are people here now! Welcome! My current soap box: #EarlyModern #Jewish #WomenWrote. The amazing Glikl bas Judah Leib AND Jewish women. Some she knew; some she didn't. Early modern #WomenAlsoKnowHistory (knew history ; - ). @ingeveb.bsky.social
Now working on women who wrote -- #WomenWrote! Fantabulous Glikl, whose memoirs (1691-1719) have been recently republished by Chava Turniansky and translator Sara Friedman, did in fact grow from a context of others women's writing. ingeveb.org/articles/wom... #Yiddish #JewishHistory 2/
Women Wrote: Glikl in Context | In geveb
Placing Glikl's writing alongside writings by other contemporary women in central Europe reveals what characterized their shared literary and cultural context.
ingeveb.org
November 18, 2024 at 12:52 PM
Now working on women who wrote -- #WomenWrote! Fantabulous Glikl, whose memoirs (1691-1719) have been recently republished by Chava Turniansky and translator Sara Friedman, did in fact grow from a context of others women's writing. ingeveb.org/articles/wom... #Yiddish #JewishHistory 2/
My work on #Glikl & additional #WomenWhoWrote (yes, #WomenWrote) grew out of *To Tell Their Children*, where I sought out ways women used written and #materialculture to preserve & tell about their own pasts--including Beila Perlhefter, 1 of the stars of "Women Wrote: Glikl in Context"
Women Wrote: Glikl in Context | In geveb
Placing Glikl's writing alongside writings by other contemporary women in central Europe reveals what characterized their shared literary and cultural context.
ingeveb.org
January 21, 2026 at 7:54 PM
My work on #Glikl & additional #WomenWhoWrote (yes, #WomenWrote) grew out of *To Tell Their Children*, where I sought out ways women used written and #materialculture to preserve & tell about their own pasts--including Beila Perlhefter, 1 of the stars of "Women Wrote: Glikl in Context"
If womenwrote the Bible...12 Besties, Marcus, the Virgin...😄
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If womenwrote the Bible...12 Besties, Marcus, the Virgin...😄
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