Laura Yares
@LauraYares
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Assistant Professor of Religious Studies @MSU with mild to moderate interests in all things Jewish
Joined July 2020
Into reimagining Jewish education...and live near Ann Arbor, MI? Very excited about this lineup, especially presenting with artist Hillel Smith & Yiddish singer Anthony Tzvi Russell in a program exploring how art can challenge cultural assumptions. Free! https://t.co/2lEs7jnYdA
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In advance of my book release tomorrow (squee!) here's a piece for JBC where I spill the beans on how researching this book was a feminist project.
jewishbookcouncil.org
Sunday school is an American Jewish rite of passage that children love to hate.
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Amazing sale over at NYU Press this week! If you're interested in pre-ordering my book (out August !) now would be the time to do it! Many other wonderful #AmRel titles to be had too! Use the promo code NYUP50
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Our site might not be as big as Amazon's, but our discounts are. For a full week, we'll be offering 50% off every book we carry. If you add enough to your stack, you could even get free domestic shipping. Check out our titles at https://t.co/3Ff3mX8JhI!
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Thank you @SilowCarroll and @jtanews this fun interview about my new book! Available august 1 😁
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“I picked up “Jewish Sunday Schools” hoping to find out who gets the blame for ruining my Sunday mornings.” https://t.co/jolWsryuJG
jta.org
Laura Yares looks back at the 19th-century educators, mostly women, who developed a new model for teaching American kids about Judaism.
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New piece in @ConversationUS today, a sneak peak at one of the chapters from my book on Jewish Sunday schools coming in August from @NYUpress.
theconversation.com
Shavuot, which was originally an ancient pilgrimage festival, has gone through many changes over the years – as has Judaism itself.
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Here's a random titbit you didn't know you needed to know: Jews used to write catechisms. All the time. So glad to see article on Jewish catechisms finally out in print - a piece that I started way back back in graduate school:
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The one where I weigh in on audience experiences at @Leopoldstadtbwy and @paradebway
https://t.co/FlFlZSL5K7
jta.org
A religious studies professor is studying Jewish audience members' reactions to "Leopoldstadt," "Parade" and "The Wanderers."
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Please share widely! NYC theater goers! Have you seen “Leopoldstadt,” “Parade” or “The Wanderers” on Broadway? Here's your chance to help researchers learn from your experiences: https://t.co/y3Dhri7tkw
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Looking forward to teaching as part of Judaism Unbound’s Shavuot Live line up tomorrow! Zoom in if you’re interested in nineteenth century American Jews figuring out what to do with Shavuot. TLDR: it’s all about the children.
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Contemporary Jewish Music in America Interdisciplinary discussion featuring a conversation btw Sharon Avni & @LauraYares, with authors of a new collection of articles on contemporary Jewish music March 29 5pm PT, 8pm ET On Zoom https://t.co/ZOdIgfOdKU
#JewishMusic (1/2)
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Thrilled to announce I was awarded an NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant for 2022-2023! Please RT - we're looking for humanities researchers NOT in ling (and ideally, not at R1s) to join our advisory panel! (see deets below):
Betsy Sneller, Assistant Professor in @MSULiLaC, was awarded a @NEHgov grant to develop an open-source code to create a self-recording mobile app, which will be critical for researchers who work with spoken data. Read more: https://t.co/ALavJwIxy2
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"Through the diary app, we see viewers engaging in more personal processes of speculation." In their new post, @LauraYares and Sharon Avni discuss how they adapted their ethnographic work about Jewish cultural experiences in light of the COVID-19 pandemic:
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This article is way long, but skip down to the last page for a sneak preview of some of the research that Sharon Avni and I have been doing on what viewers learn from watching Shtisel https://t.co/pDv30TZfZL
jpost.com
Even those who don’t generally watch television at all, let alone Israeli TV, have been caught up in the phenomenon that is Shtisel.
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