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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.
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Call For Papers: Religious Thought in Yiddish
Abstracts are due by April 1, 2017 for a special issue of In geveb devoted to religious thought in Yiddish.
Feb 15, 2017
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The Latest in Yiddish Studies in English: 2016
A bibliography of the prolific output of Yiddish scholarship published in English last year.
Feb 08, 2017
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A Writer in the Spa: Identifying Jacob Glatstein’s Protagonist
In his novel Ven Yash iz gekumen, Jacob Glatstein wrote a Poland both familiar and strange, and peopled it with characters based on the real-life literary figures and historians he met in the spa town of Nałęczów.
Jan 25, 2017
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Yiddish, Translation, and a World Literature To-Come
In geveb’s founding editor discusses different models of Yiddish in relation to world literature through the figures of Sholem Asch and Jacob Glatstein.
Jan 23, 2017
Interview
Sholem Aleichem's Digital Turn
An interview with Jeremy Dauber about the new website SholemAleichem.org
Jan 18, 2017
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The Yiddishist Vote: Responses to Trump
A round-up of responses to the election of Donald Trump by scholars of Yiddish.
Dec 22, 2016
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לויט די לייענערס | Readers Respond: Tell Us What You Really Think
This summer we conducted a survey of our readers to find out what you think about us, here’s what we learned.
Dec 15, 2016
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On My Own in Omaha: On Learning Yiddish Solo
The challenges and rewards of learning Yiddish on your own.
Dec 08, 2016
Interview
Spectacular Vernacular: An Interview with Ezra Berkley Nepon on New Yiddish Theater, Queer Performance Arts, and “Dazzle Camouflage”
On the beautiful, radical, accessible, possibilities of performance and Yiddish.
Nov 15, 2016
Interview
“Conversion through language”: Mo Pareles on Yiddish, Old English, and the Temporal Other
A medievalist uses Yiddish in her scriptural scholarship.
Nov 10, 2016