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Aug 03, 2024

In The Great Dictionary of Yiddish Language: A Chamber Opera, composer Alex Weiser and librettist Ben Kaplan endow enchantment and glamor on their decidedly unglamorous protagonists and, most importantly, heighten our attention to their doubts and torments the way only an opera can.

Jul 25, 2024

In geveb is seeking a Peer Review Associate for the 2024-2025 academic year.

Jul 17, 2024

Through translation and creative writing - in the form of found poems - Dalia Wolfson explores the experiences of the women reciting tkhines in the Early Modern period.

Jul 12, 2024

Aya Elyada interviews Chava Turniansky and discusses her career, her research, and the state of the field of Old Yiddish language and literature.

Jul 12, 2024

An inside peek at the annual weekend Yiddish immersion retreat.

Jul 08, 2024

A Yiddish teacher and software engineer tackles a thorny accessibility issue: how to teach a highly motivated student who reads braille when no braille software in the world offers Yiddish as one of the language options.

Jun 21, 2024

A wide-ranging conversation about the status of Yiddish in Sweden, creating new Yiddish television, promoting Yiddish, and the interconnected world of Yiddish cultural activists.

Jun 17, 2024

Translation into English adds another layer to the intertwined legacy of translation and migration in the works presented in this recent volume.

Jun 11, 2024

What Andreas Mühe’s Mischpoche beckons is a Yiddish kvetsh—someone to squeeze the term, pinch and press it, articulate where the stress should fall.

May 28, 2024