Blog

Jo Sabath talks with Francisco Dean about Dean’s Frilingdik Umbazigt: As the Spring Unconquered, an electronic music piece memorializing the Holocaust that he composed and directed with high school student musicians at the Chicago Laboratory School.

Oct 17, 2019

Tova Benjamin reviews The Argentinian Prostitute Play, a new play by Reuven Glezer staged as part of the 2019 Broadway Bound Theatre Festival.

Oct 10, 2019

Sep 22, 2019

Our new Briv funem arkhiv section will feature short pieces about interesting, significant, funny, or surprising archival finds.

Sep 22, 2019

Jul 11, 2019

Jul 09, 2019

Eisenberg reviews Shtoltse Lider, a multimedia stage show, with songs in Yiddish and English, and explanations and evocations in Swedish, from Swedish duo Ida and Louise.

Jun 25, 2019

A bibliography of the output of Yiddish scholarship published in English last year.

Jun 19, 2019

An interview with Naomi Seidman, Chancellor Jackman Professor of the Humanities at the University of Toronto, and Basya Schechter, musician and founder of Pharoah’s Daughter, who are working on their compelling project called The Bais Yaakov project.

Jun 05, 2019

Abstracts are due July 1, 2019 for a special issue of In geveb dedicated to the work and legacy of Debora Vogel (also rendered ‘Dvoyre Fogel’).

May 27, 2019