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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.

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Pin the Hat on Sholem Shachne

Play it today, or at least you should def­i­nite­ly play it in time for Pey­sekh.

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A Purim Letter from the Editors: Laughter is Despair's Opposite

Because laugh­ter artic­u­lates a hope for sur­vival we offer you once again our Purim issue of In geveb.

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Cerealized Yiddish: Good to the Last Dropkin

.קינדער זײַנען פֿאַרליבט אין די סעריאַלס

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Briv Funem Arkhiv: Jessica Kirzner’s “The Beach” (1996) and Rokhl Fishman’s “Yam mikh arum” (1962)

The new­ly-redis­cov­ered The Beach” (1996) is a strik­ing ear­ly exam­ple of Yid­dish writer, trans­la­tor, edi­tor, and teacher Jes­si­ca Kirzane’s non-Yid­dish work.

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Mad Libs

The only Yid­dish revival sto­ry you’ll ever need.

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The Latest in Yiddish Studies in English: 2023

The lat­est install­ment of our annu­al effort to gath­er togeth­er the lat­est publi­ca­tions rel­e­vant to Yid­dish Stud­ies in English.

Interview

Training for Yiddish Instructors Based in The Latest Pedagogy Research: An Interview with Asya Schulman and Sonia Bloom

Jes­si­ca Kirzane chats with Asya Schul­man and Sonia Bloom to learn about the whats, hows, and whys of the pro­grams for train­ing Yid­dish lan­guage instruc­tors through the Yid­dish Book Cen­ter: the Yid­dish Ped­a­gogy Fel­low­ship, the Yid­dish Ped­a­gogy Practicum, and Advanced Yid­dish class­es for Yid­dish teachers. 

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Brivkestl: Call for Responses to our Publishing about the Israel-Gaza war

What do you think about our cov­er­age in rela­tion to the war in Gaza? Let us know.

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Review of The Gospel According to Chaim by Mikhl Yashinsky

Eyshe Beirich reviews Mikhl Yashin­sky’s orig­i­nal Yid­dish play Di psure loyt khay­im.

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