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Daniel Kahn talks about his musi­cal influ­ences, how all of his lan­guages inter­act with each oth­er in his songs, and what it means to ​“tradapt” a song across lan­guages and time.

Oct 01, 2015

Hear the voice of Yid­dish poet Aaron Glantz-Leye­les as he med­i­tates on the lone­li­ness of the Yid­dish writer while still embrac­ing the mag­ic of the Amer­i­can landscape.

Oct 06, 2015

How to make sense of a fam­i­ly saga that charts the very cre­ation of the Sovi­et Jew: begin by mak­ing a fam­i­ly tree.

Oct 13, 2015

Lis­ten to a con­tem­po­rary rethink­ing of Biro­bidzhan, the longed-for but most­ly imag­i­nary Jew­ish ter­ri­to­r­i­al project.

Oct 18, 2015

In a pair of short sto­ries, Isaac Bashe­vis Singer imag­ines two char­ac­ters suf­fer­ing from writer’s block, and the oppos­ing ways in which their prob­lem manifests. 

Oct 28, 2015

Read­ers write in to tell us about the Hebrew-Yid­dish writer who was also Anna Mar­golin’s first husband.

Oct 28, 2015

In geveb​’s read­ers were asked about how Yid­dish is part of their love lives. Click here to read their answers.

Nov 08, 2015

At Yid­dish aca­d­e­m­ic con­fer­ences in Israel, Eng­lish is often the lan­guage of schol­ar­ship and con­ver­sa­tion. Why? 

Nov 10, 2015

For the first time in forty years, Death of a Sales­man is being staged in Yid­dish, and it’s as rel­e­vant as ever. 

Nov 15, 2015

Zisl Sle­povitch of the band Lit­vakus on klezmer, gath­er­ing sto­ries, and grow­ing up in Belarus. 

Nov 19, 2015