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In its multilingualism and multivocality, this workshop on Cold War Yiddish was an anti-eulogy that spoke to afterlives instead of endings.

Mar 29, 2022

In geveb is seeking submissions from Yiddishists and scholars of Yiddish or Jewish history and literature who are in or from Ukraine.

Mar 28, 2022

This essay offers for the first time infor­ma­tion ver­i­fied by our own comedic sensibilities about Shomer Aleichem’s significant and influential corpus.

Mar 16, 2022

We decided it was high time to make a little money off of you.

Mar 16, 2022

What is the role of men writers in the development of Yiddish literature? For too long, men writers have been neglected by literary critics, scholars, and cultural institutions.

Mar 16, 2022

If you arrived at In geveb’s Purim issue reluctantly because you are not in the mood for laughter, Purim offers an outlet for other feelings as well, such as rage, hope, and despair.

Mar 16, 2022

Yeder vertl hot zikh zayn ertl (every Wordle finds its girdle)

Mar 16, 2022

We asked some experts, whose answers are dripping with wisdom.

Mar 16, 2022

The word איז is both funny and sad, like Yiddish itself. It comes from somewhere in Eastern Europe.

Mar 16, 2022

Ezekiel Lifschutz’s diary from his time as YIVO chief archivist in the 1960s offers striking evidence of the institute’s importance in the wider Jewish world. In these passages, we see the personalities of three giants of modern Jewish literature — Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever, English novelist Saul Bellow, and Hebrew writer Shai Agnon — and their relationships to the Yiddish language.

Mar 09, 2022