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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.
Interview
"I salvage the shards": an interview with Polish poet Grzegorz Kwiatkowski
An interview with Polish poet and musician Grzegorz Kwiatkowski.
Nov 02, 2022
Interview
Toward Hopeful Skies: A Benefit Volume to Support Ukrainian Relief
This August, Naydus Press published Toward Hopeful Skies, a trilingual (Yiddish, Ukrainian, English) volume of two works of children’s poetry, as a benefit volume to support the refugee resettlement agency HIAS’s work with refugees from Ukraine.
Oct 26, 2022
Interview
On Translating The Disappearance into Yiddish: Ilan Stavans and Beruriah Wiegand in Conversation
Oct 24, 2022
Blog
Kosmopolitn: a Time Capsule to a World that Maybe Was
Kosmopolitn, the latest Tsvey Brider release from Borscht Beat Records, is a tribute to the social and cultural dynamism of turn-of-the-twentieth century Yiddish poetic life.
Oct 20, 2022
Blog
In geveb is seeking a Development and Fundraising Associate
In geveb is seeking to hire a Development and Fundraising Associate for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Jul 11, 2022
Blog
Samy Szlingerbaum’s Heymish Avant-Garde Kino der Mamen: Mysteries, Music, & Immigrant Life in “Brussels Transit”
Eve Sicular offers an exegesis of Samy Szlingerbaum’s recently restored autobiographical cinematic masterpiece, which depicts a Jewish family’s displacement in the aftermath of World War II.
Jul 08, 2022
Blog
Feminism, Creativity and Translation: Chava Rosenfarb Translates Jewish-Canadian Women Writers into Yiddish
Goldie Morgentaler reflects on why her mother, the novelist Chava Rosenfarb, might have chosen to translate the work of two other Jewish Canadian women writers — her friends Miriam Waddington and Adele Wiseman, who both wrote in English — into Yiddish.
Jul 05, 2022