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Ain’t No Party Like a Shnorer Party: The Wild and Short Life of a Literary Support Group
The Shnorer Association, also sometimes known as The Shnorer Club, sponsored a variety of cultural events in New York City from 1915 through around 1925.
Oct 04, 2023
Interview
Yiddish Trash: An Interview with Saul Noam Zaritt
Shund.org launched in beta mode on August 9, 2023.
Oct 01, 2023
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אָנקומען /Arrived/Przybyli: Searching for Love and Home in a Street Performance
Spanish/Lithuanian artists Adrian Schvarzstein and Jūratė Širvytė-Rukštelė delivered an interactive, dynamic, wordless performance, titled אָנקומען /Arrived/Przybyli in the Kraków Street Theatre Festival.
Sep 26, 2023
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Reader Favorites 2022-2023
As our publishing year comes to a close, we’re proud to share with you a roundup of the most widely-read pieces In geveb published this year.
Jun 29, 2023
Interview
“We Collected Everything”: An Interview with Frieda Johles Forman
An interview with a pioneering Yiddish feminist translator.
Jun 19, 2023
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Reflecting and Inflecting Across the Young Yiddish Landscape: The 2022 Steiner Summer Yiddish Program and Our Age of Connection
What does it mean, now, to be a young person learning Yiddish in the digital age — the twenty-first-century world?
Jun 13, 2023
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Daughterhood
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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Review: Once Upon a Time the Fire Burned Brighter: Ballads From the Yiddish Gothic
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