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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.

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In geveb is hiring!

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

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The Paratexts of Para-Liturgy: A Selection of Found Tkhine Poems

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.

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Old Yiddish Scholarship in the Past, Present, and Future: An Interview with Chava Turniansky

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

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Mit Undz in Vald: Twenty Years of Yiddish Sof Vokh Oystralye

An inside peek at the annual weekend Yiddish immersion retreat.

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Yiddish in Braille - a Mayse

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.

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"I'm Doing my Best Here!": An Interview with Tomas Woodski on Yiddish Language Activism and Creativity

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.

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Translating Jewish Multilingualism

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

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Family Photos: A Yiddishist Looks at Mischpoche

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.

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Race Uprooted: Foreign Observation, American Racism, and Yiddish Journalism through I.J. Singer’s 1932 “Harlem Cabaret”

In “What I.J. Singer Saw in the Black Cabarets in Harlem” (1932), Singer offers an intricate—and often highly unsettling and, at times, overtly racist—glimpse into how eastern European Jews imagined Black people and “Blackness” in America.

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2023, the “Year of Chava Rosenfarb” in Lodz

A future beyond anything Rosenfarb dared to imagine is now present, and it exists alongside the painful past.

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