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No, We Don’t Need to Talk About Shmuel Charney
In geveb is announcing some changes in terminology and approach in light of the recent executive orders by the Ahasuerus administration.
Mar 13, 2025
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The Landsberg Carnival: Purim in a Displaced Persons Center
The traditional Purim atmosphere of release, excitement, and permissiveness was particularly suited to the emotional needs of the time.
Mar 08, 2025
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Pin the Hat on Sholem Shachne
Play it today, or at least you should definitely play it in time for Peysekh.
Mar 23, 2024
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A Purim Letter from the Editors: Laughter is Despair's Opposite
Because laughter articulates a hope for survival we offer you once again our Purim issue of In geveb.
Mar 23, 2024
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Cerealized Yiddish: Good to the Last Dropkin
.קינדער זײַנען פֿאַרליבט אין די סעריאַלס
Mar 23, 2024
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Briv Funem Arkhiv: Jessica Kirzner’s “The Beach” (1996) and Rokhl Fishman’s “Yam mikh arum” (1962)
The newly-rediscovered “The Beach” (1996) is a striking early example of Yiddish writer, translator, editor, and teacher Jessica Kirzane’s non-Yiddish work.
Mar 23, 2024
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Onbotn fun robotn: Futures for Algorithmic Yiddishkayt
The Di robotn conference celebrated the legacy of bots in the Yiddish corpus, dreaming of futures for robots in the Yiddishist world.
Mar 05, 2023
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YIVO Finds More Archival Documents in Biden Home
This latest discovery comes at a time when a staggering number of long-lost Yiddish documents have been showing up in the homes of prominent politicians.
Mar 04, 2023