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Daughterhood
Helen Mintz
A lyrical essay on relationships between a translator and previous generations: Liba Augenfeld, a native Yiddish speaker who lived in Vilna before the Holocaust and could share linguistic and cultural knowledge she knew first hand, and the translator’s own mother who had a conflicted relationship with Yiddish.
May 25, 2023
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Call for Proposals: Creative, Pedagogical, and Research Projects Working with Yiddish Testimonies from the Fortunoff Video Archive
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The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University is collaborating with the In geveb to encourage and fund scholars to work with the collection.
Mar 07, 2023
Texts & Translation
די כאָלערע
Cholera, Part 3
Translation by Rachel Mines
Part 3 of a series excerpted from Rosenfeld’s “Cholera.”
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Texts & Translation
די כאָלערע
Cholera, Part 2
Jonah Rosenfeld
Translation by Rachel Mines
Part 2 of a series excerpted from Rosenfeld’s “Cholera.”
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Zeke Levine
On their album Once Upon a Time the Fire Burned Brighter: Ballads From the Yiddish Gothic, Jeremiah Lockwood and Ricky Gordon, performing as the duo Gordon Lockwood, conjure a bygone world.
May 15, 2023
Pedagogy
Yiddish is back in Mokum
Duifje I. van de Woestijne
Yiddish is once again being taught at the University of Amsterdam after an eight-year hiatus.
May 12, 2023
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Briv funem arkhiv: Wulf Winokur, Hebrew Seminarian and Yiddish Humorist in Vilna
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