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 17, 2020
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S’iz shoyn zumer: Summer’s Here!
The Editors
As we head into our summer publishing break, we reflect on the past year and welcome your contributions for next fall. Most of all, we thank you for being a part of our In geveb community.
Jul 15, 2020
Blog
Reader Favorites 2019-2020
The Editors
Our readers’ favorite posts from the 2019-2020 publishing year, including translations, peer-reviewed scholarly articles, personal essays, roundups of Yiddish resources, and even a piece from our Purim issue.
Jul 14, 2020
Text & Translation
אורי צבֿי פֿאַרן צלם
Uri Zvi Before the Cross
Uri Zvi Grinberg
Translation by James Adam Redfield
A new translation of Uri Zvi Grinberg’s provocative experimental typographic poem, first published in his literary journal Albatros.
Jul 12, 2020
Article
The Fourth Child
Hillel Schwartz
The author reflects on his own experiences encountering David Roskies in the 1960s and collaborating with him in Holocaust remembrance at a very different time than our present context for the memory and commemoration of the Holocaust.
Jun 30, 2020
Article
Letters Without Addresses: Abraham Sutzkever’s Late Style
Saul Noam Zaritt
Abraham Sutzkever’s poetry is often read within the confines of “Holocaust literature”. This essays reads a selection of Sutzkever’s poetry against the Holocaust, against the apocalypse, and against the horizons of meaning that the label of “Holocaust literature” might impose.
Jun 30, 2020
Article
Double or Nothing: Jewish Speech and Silence in Georges Perec’s *W ou le souvenir d’enfance”
Marc Caplan
This article considers the phantom traces of Yiddish in Georges Perec’s W ou le souvenir d’enfance (1975).
Jun 30, 2020
Article
Orphaned Words: Yiddish, English, and Child Speech in Postwar Cinema
Hannah Pollin-Galay
Is there a Jewish way of not saying things? In facing crises in language during the immediate post-Holocaust years, filmmakers in English and Yiddish made choices about how to balance repair and critique.
Jun 30, 2020
Article
Split Identity: Jewish Scholarship in the Vilna Ghetto
David E. Fishman
In this essay, David Fishman draws a comparison between yidishe visnshaft, or Jewish studies scholarship, and Judenforschung, the Nazi field of antisemitic Jewish studies used to justify the persecution and extermination of Jews in scientific terms.
Jun 30, 2020
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