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A Tale of Two Translators: Yehoash and Alter Take on the Tanakh
Jeffrey Shandler
The recent publication of Robert Alter’s long-awaited complete translation of the entire Hebrew Bible into English is a en enormous achievement. But Alter is not the first to tackle this monumental project; almost a century earlier, Solomon Bloomgarten—better known by his pen name, Yehoash—produced a landmark translation of the same text into Yiddish.
Apr 05, 2019
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The Scholar and the Bookmaker: On Encountering the Material Side of Things
Barbara Mann
Mann discusses the knowledge she gained through a hands-on encounter with the materials of print while creating her artist’s book “Things/Zachen/Devarim.”
Mar 27, 2019
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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