Special Issues
Special Issue
A Taytsh Forum
Book forum on Saul Noam Zaritt’s A Taytsh Manifesto: Yiddish, Translation, and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture
This book forum includes six reviews and a response from the author.
Jan 2025
Special Issue
Old Yiddish Literature
Historical and Cultural Perspectives
This special issue assembles a range of original contributions that shed light on the historical and cultural dimensions of Old Yiddish literature.
Jul 2024
Special Issue
Translation: Gendered Literary Debates in Yiddish
This Translation special issue of In geveb consists of a collection of primary documents curated and translated by Anita Norich, Faith Jones and David Mazower. It illuminates the stances and strategies accompanying the emergence of women writers in modern Yiddish literature.
Dec 2023
Special Issue
Murder, Lust, and Laughter, or, Shund Theater
This special issue of In geveb, edited by Joel Berkowitz, Sonia Gollance, and Nick Underwood, examines shund and its connection to the popular Yiddish theater.
Apr 2023
Special Issue
Walking with Vogel
New perspectives on Debora Vogel through poetry, visual art, translation, and scholarship
This special issue invites you to walk with Debora Vogel as she maps the spaces of Jewish life through avant-garde forms. We bring together new perspectives on Vogel through poetry, visual art, translation, and scholarship, all in an attempt to follow the many lines of creative and critical inquiry that emerge from Vogel’s work.
Oct 2021
Special Issue
Race in America, af yidish
Translations, articles, and reflections focusing on Yiddish perspectives on race in the United States.
Jun 2021
Special Issue
Yiddish and the Transnational in Latin America
A wide array of scholarly articles exploring the interrelation of the national and the transnational in Yiddish cultural production in Latin America.
May 2021
Special Issue
There’s a Jewish Way of Saying Things
Essays in Honor of David Roskies
A collection of essays in honor of David Roskies reflecting on the resonances between Jewish speech and Jewish texts.
Jun 2020