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In this con­ver­sa­tion the Yid­dish trans­la­tor John Karls­son from Swe­den dis­cuss­es his most recent project, a trans­la­tion of Yosl Bir­shteyn sto­ries into Swedish.

Apr 25, 2022

How did Ladi­no speak­ers refer to new­ly arrived Ashke­naz­im in Ottoman cities? Nesi Altaras uses Ladino’s lex­i­con as an archive to exca­vate the pow­er dynam­ics between Jews speak­ing dif­fer­ent lan­guages, par­tic­u­lar­ly the dis­dain felt by the already estab­lished towards the new­ly arrived.

Apr 01, 2022

In its mul­ti­lin­gual­ism and mul­ti­vo­cal­i­ty, this work­shop on Cold War Yid­dish was an anti-eulo­gy that spoke to after­lives instead of endings.

Mar 29, 2022

In geveb is seek­ing sub­mis­sions from Yid­dishists and schol­ars of Yid­dish or Jew­ish his­to­ry and lit­er­a­ture who are in or from Ukraine.

Mar 28, 2022

This essay offers for the first time infor­ma­tion ver­i­fied by our own comedic sen­si­bil­i­ties about Shomer Aleichem’s sig­nif­i­cant and influ­en­tial corpus.

Mar 16, 2022

We decid­ed it was high time to make a lit­tle mon­ey off of you.

Mar 16, 2022

The word איז is both fun­ny and sad, like Yid­dish itself. It comes from some­where in East­ern Europe.

Mar 16, 2022

We asked some experts, whose answers are drip­ping with wisdom.

Mar 16, 2022

Yed­er vertl hot zikh zayn ertl (every Wor­dle finds its girdle)

Mar 16, 2022

If you arrived at In geveb​’s Purim issue reluc­tant­ly because you are not in the mood for laugh­ter, Purim offers an out­let for oth­er feel­ings as well, such as rage, hope, and despair.

Mar 16, 2022