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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

Welcome to the 2023-2024 publishing year!

Sep 13, 2023

Jul 05, 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

An interview with a pioneering Yiddish feminist translator.

Jun 19, 2023

What does it mean, now, to be a young person learning Yiddish in the digital age — the twenty-first-century world?

Jun 13, 2023

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

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

Winokur’s letters offer a colorful snapshot of student life in Vilna between the world wars.

May 02, 2023

Detroit’s Yiddish theater, despite its distance from the center of American Yiddish culture in New York, was home to big personalities and bigger stars.

Apr 27, 2023