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An inter­view with trans­la­tor Ellen Cassedy about her two trans­la­tions of Yid­dish children’s poet­ry into Eng­lish: a col­lec­tion of pre­war children’s poems for a book called ​“Yid­dish Zoo” and a col­lec­tion of Boris Sandler’s ​“Good Morn­ing” poems for children.

Nov 16, 2020

Over the next few months, we’ll be bring­ing you a series of posts across the blog, ped­a­gogy, and trans­la­tion sec­tions of In geveb, all with a focus on Yid­dish chil­dren’s literature.

Nov 15, 2020

Faith Hillis inter­views Vien­na-based musi­cian and activist Isabel Frey about her lat­est album, Mil­len­ni­al Bundist; the place of Yid­dish music in con­tem­po­rary left-wing pol­i­tics; and Frey’s cre­ative rewrit­ings of rev­o­lu­tion­ary anthems.

Nov 12, 2020

Mikhl Yashin­sky dis­cuss­es his star­ring role as Bobe Yakhne in the Folks­bi­ene pro­duc­tion of The Sor­cer­ess, fea­tur­ing an In geveb first — a Yid­dish drag per­for­mance record­ed just for our lucky readers!

Oct 29, 2020

A con­ver­sa­tion about the effort to cre­ate and dis­sem­i­nate a list of vocab­u­lary for speak­ing and writ­ing in Yid­dish about the Black Lives Mat­ter move­ment in the wake of George Floyd’s bru­tal mur­der at the hands of police.

Oct 27, 2020

Eka­te­ri­na Kuznetso­va reviews Elian­na Renner’s new exhib­it in Berlin, ​“Pit­shipoy,” open through Novem­ber 6, 2020, which incor­po­rates Yid­dish into con­tem­po­rary art and dis­cus­sions about the pol­i­tics of col­lec­tive memory.

Oct 16, 2020

The newest install­ment of our annu­al effort to gath­er togeth­er the lat­est pub­li­ca­tions rel­e­vant to Yid­dish Stud­ies in English.

Oct 14, 2020

Oct 06, 2020

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Oct 01, 2020

Sep 29, 2020