Blog
Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.
Interview
The Bais Yaakov Project: An Interview Between David Shneer, Basya Schechter and Naomi Seidman
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
Blog
Call For papers: In geveb Special Issue on Debora Vogel
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
Blog
Sweeping, Bewitching, Divinely Dissonant: A Review of Alex Weiser's Album and all the days were purple
May 22, 2019
Interview
Body of Language, Transforming the Language and Culture Archive of Ashkenazic Jewry: An Interview between David Shneer, Rob Adler Peckerar and Alexx Shilling
David Shneer interviews Rob Adler Peckerar and Alexx Shilling about their project to bring embodied artistic interpretation to bear on a linguistic archive.
May 20, 2019
Blog
Translating the Holocaust
Jonah Boyarin explores the process of his translation of Mordkhe Wolfshaut-Dinkes’s holocaust memoir, Checkmate: The Miracle of My Life.
May 14, 2019
Blog
The Tsene-rene: In Search of a Seventeenth-Century Yiddish Bible in Modern-Day Jerusalem
Avi Blitz discusses the popularity and gender-inflected attitude toward the Tsene-rene in Haredi communities in contemporary Israel.
May 06, 2019
Blog
Yale Strom's Striking Vision: A Review of Shimmering Lights for All Seasons
Shimmering Lights by Yale Strom’s Broken Consort is joyful listening that cuts through the darkness at any time of year.
Apr 24, 2019
Blog
Another 'Tradition Omission': Reconsidering Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish
Fiddler’s Yiddish translation merits discussion in The New York Times, not as history or metaphor, but as a window into how Jews tell stories about themselves.
Apr 15, 2019