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Icon­ic hats of Yid­dish poet­ry, plus the labor of cre­at­ing a look! 

Dec 01, 2015

A read­er writes in to tell us about her grand­moth­er, Yid­dish poet Mal­ka Lee, and to dis­pel an error of iden­ti­ty that’s been float­ing around the inter­net for years. 

Dec 11, 2015

An end of year reflec­tion from the core edi­to­r­i­al staff of In geveb. 

Dec 12, 2015

A report from a Novem­ber con­fer­ence in War­saw ​“Yid­dishism: Mytholo­gies and Iconographies.”

Dec 21, 2015

What does hope look like on the Yid­dish stage?

Dec 24, 2015

When Amer­i­can pop­u­lar cul­ture imag­ines Yid­dish as a lan­guage of vul­gar com­e­dy, how can Yid­dish cul­tur­al activists respond? 

Dec 24, 2015

The first in a series of posts about an auto­bi­og­ra­phy found in the YIVO archives from 1930s Poland.

Jan 04, 2016

The sec­ond in a series of posts about an auto­bi­og­ra­phy found in the YIVO archives from 1930s Poland: RJ’s hatred of women but love for the hasidic tale!

Jan 10, 2016

The third in a series of five posts about an auto­bi­og­ra­phy found in the YIVO archives from 1930s Poland: the ched­er years!

Jan 18, 2016

A con­fer­ence in Paris this sum­mer seeks papers on the lit­er­ary dias­po­ras of Ashke­naz, with a focus on Hebrew and Yiddish. 

Jan 19, 2016