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Put on your birth­day hats and hang your stream­ers because In geveb: A Jour­nal of Yid­dish Stud­ies is turn­ing ten this year!

Apr 16, 2025

The Cor­pus of Spo­ken Yid­dish in Europe, a dig­i­tal lan­guage archive sourced from Holo­caust sur­vivor tes­ti­monies from the USC Shoah Foun­da­tion, is a project fund­ed by a five-year CAREER Award from the Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion that will serve as a resource for Yid­dish lin­guis­tics, ped­a­gogy, and lan­guage revitalization.

Mar 27, 2025

Farbindun­gen 2025 was a cel­e­bra­tion of Yid­dish in all its messy, defi­ant, and ever-evolv­ing forms.

Mar 24, 2025

What hap­pens when the focus of Yid­dish Stud­ies shifts from ​“dias­po­ra” to ​“ecol­o­gy”?

Mar 17, 2025

When you’re a Yid­dishist, if you put in the work, it’s not too hard to push the envelope.

Mar 13, 2025

If you seek your shund on screen, look no further.

Mar 13, 2025

Here we are again, send­ing out our lit­tle bit of silli­ness that we insist on spread­ing, even when it is hard to find a way toward joy.

Mar 13, 2025

In geveb is announc­ing some changes in ter­mi­nol­o­gy and approach in light of the recent exec­u­tive orders by the Aha­suerus administration.

Mar 13, 2025

Trump has shocked Yid­dish lin­guists with a storm of exec­u­tive orders, claim­ing expan­sive pow­er over Yiddish.

Mar 13, 2025

The tra­di­tion­al Purim atmos­phere of release, excite­ment, and per­mis­sive­ness was par­tic­u­lar­ly suit­ed to the emo­tion­al needs of the time.

Mar 08, 2025