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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.
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New Yiddish Productions on Broadway
We’re restoring some Broadway musicals to their intended Yiddish originals.
Mar 20, 2019
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Call For Papers: Yiddish and the Transnational in Latin America
The Editors
Abstracts are due by May 1, 2019 for a special issue of In geveb devoted to the subject of Yiddish and the Transnational in Latin America.
Feb 28, 2019
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“Being a man was about being tough, not backing down”: Rappers, Hasids, Sabras, and the Battle for the Future of Jewish Israeli Male Identity
Avi Blitz
Zionism sought to alter forever the image of the Jewish male. Avi Blitz looks at what happened, and how Yiddish fits in.
Feb 19, 2019
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Supporting In geveb from Coast to Coast
The Editors
You can take the party out of New York, but you can’t take New York out of the party?
Feb 08, 2019
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An Idiosyncratic Round-Up of Yiddish Poetry in 2018
Zackary Sholem Berger
A list of all Yiddish books of poetry published in 2018, sorted alphabetically by the author’s last name, together with my individual idiosyncratic impressions about what this book tells us about Yiddish poetry today.
Jan 31, 2019
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The Shtetl Neukoelln Festival Brings Yiddishland to Berlin
Ekaterina Kuznetsova
Klezmer singers and musicians gather in Berlin to make joyous new sound together.
Jan 29, 2019
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Introducing Jonah Lubin, Editorial Intern
Jonah Lubin
Introducing the newest member of our editorial staff!
Jan 20, 2019
Interview
Communicating Jewish History in Poland Today
Madeleine Cohen
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews was decades in the making and now tells the thousand year history of Polish Jews in the old heart of Jewish Warsaw.
Jan 16, 2019
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The Latest Yiddish Translations, 2018
Maia Evrona, Jessica Kirzane and Daniel Kennedy
A roundup of translations published in 2018.
Jan 14, 2019