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

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Review of Isaac Bashevis Singer's play "Enemies: A Love Story" at Lviv Theater

Bashe­vis Singer’s play takes on new mean­ing and rel­e­vance for Ukrain­ian audiences.

Interview

Reclaiming Aspects of the Jewish Past and Remixing Them: An Interview with Performance Artist Julie Weitz

Weaver inter­viewed Julie Weitz about her ongo­ing Doikayt project: A series of rit­u­al­is­tic, impro­vi­sa­tion­al per­for­mances at Jew­ish sites across East­ern Europe.

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Loyt di Leyeners: Responses to “New Yiddish Poetry from the Israel-Gaza War”

We are pleased to share these respons­es in order to broad­en con­ver­sa­tion about poet­ry in the midst of disaster.

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A Chagall Mural for Brandeis University?

Even with a copi­ous­ly doc­u­ment­ed fig­ure like Cha­gall, mys­ter­ies can remain. What hap­pened to the mur­al he was sup­posed to make for Bran­deis University?

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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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