Sam Glauber
@SamZimra
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PhD candidate in Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University. Interested in occultism, religion, and popular culture in early twentieth-century East European Jewry.
Joined March 2021
New article! "Prolegomena to the Study of Jewish Occultism: Definition, Scope, and Impact" (co-written with Boaz Huss) out in the latest issue of Jewish Thought. I am proud of everything I've written, but this one feels important. Link to download:
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@fguesnet @uclhjs @JewishStudiesUK @BartWallet @britishlibrary I am writing now about his great-grandson and namesake, Salomon Mandelkern
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"A time of crisis and an atmosphere of impending war is, as a rule, the best season for fortune-tellers." Haynt (Riga), December 1934
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This photograph takes our gaze away from the unnamed tsadik and towards his enraptured followers, who bask in his presence as he greets them from his traincar window
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Please join me on Sunday June 2 at 2 PM ET, for a free Zoom lecture that I'll be giving for the CIYCL and the UJA Committee for Yiddish on the topic of: "How to tell your fortune in Yiddish" (I cannot vouch for the veracity of any fortunes told)
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"The Psychic Hand" From a Yiddish guide to chiromancy published in Warsaw in 1932
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Absolutely shocking that the NYTimes saw fit to publish a long-form article on comet strike theory with nary a mention of Immanuel Velikovsky
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RT @eddyportnoy: Fascinating online class at the YIVO: Psychics and the Occult in Modern Jewish Culture Taught by the illustrious @SamZim…
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@YehudaHaMaccabi @jeremytibbetts1 You need to check out the whole project - it's peak avant-garde Australian Yiddishism
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