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Josie Naron gives us a glimpse into the pres­sures felt by the chil­dren of Jew­ish left­ists tar­get­ed by McCarthy­ism and the role of Yid­dish sum­mer camps at the height of the Red Scare.

Dec 06, 2019

Check out the dozens of pan­els and pre­sen­ta­tions involv­ing Yid­dish at this year’s Asso­ci­a­tion for Jew­ish Stud­ies Annu­al Conference.

Dec 04, 2019

Artist and In geveb sup­port­er Saman­tha Wood incor­po­rat­ed In geveb pen­cils into a work of art now on dis­play as part of an art show at The Art Gar­den in Shel­burne Falls, Mass.

Dec 02, 2019

In geveb is the ONLY open-access digital Yiddish studies journal around, and we depend on our community of readers like you for support. Can you chip in to help build the online home for Yiddish studies?

Dec 02, 2019

Saulė Val­iū­naitė finds Chaim Grade’s moth­er Vel­la list­ed as a fruit and veg­etable sell­er in inter­war Vil­na, just as Grade mov­ing­ly depicts her in his memoir.

Nov 22, 2019

Sam Shon­koff shares a receipt issued to Mar­tin Buber for his pur­chase of thir­ty-three Hasidic vol­umes to be shipped from Prze­myśl, Gali­cia, to his cur­rent home in Berlin, in Octo­ber 1915 — in the midst of World War I and a tur­bu­lent year for Prze­myśl’s Jews.

Nov 14, 2019

For our first briv funem arkhiv, Alyssa Quint shares a Hal­loween-themed find: a pam­phlet for a 1925 mas­quer­ade ball in Warsaw.

Oct 31, 2019

Eve Romm looks to tkhines — Yid­dish women’s devo­tion­al lit­er­a­ture — for High Hol­i­days prayers that ​“feel earnest, ten­der, and rich­ly human.”

Oct 17, 2019

Jo Sabath talks with Fran­cis­co Dean about Dean’s Frilingdik Umbazigt: As the Spring Uncon­quered, an elec­tron­ic music piece memo­ri­al­iz­ing the Holo­caust that he com­posed and direct­ed with high school stu­dent musi­cians at the Chica­go Lab­o­ra­to­ry School.

Oct 17, 2019

Tova Ben­jamin reviews The Argen­tin­ian Pros­ti­tute Play, a new play by Reuven Glez­er staged as part of the 2019 Broad­way Bound The­atre Festival. 

Oct 10, 2019