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Jill Soloway and Micah Fitzerman-Blue on writing Transparent in Yiddish, whether or not you noticed.

Mar 01, 2016

Lin Jaldati was a secular Dutch Jew who brought Yiddish music to communist East Germany. Now, Jewlia Eisenberg and David Shneer are reviving her music and investigating her revolutionary life.

Feb 28, 2016

Austrian shepherd Hans Breuer on driving refugees across the border, and getting famous for singing Yiddish songs.

Feb 23, 2016

In geveb is pleased to announce its Second Annual Call for Submissions for our Fall 2016 publishing cycle.

Feb 14, 2016

A bibliography of scholarly works in Yiddish Studies published in English over the last two years.

Feb 07, 2016

The fifth and final post in an investigation of an autobiography found in the YIVO archives from 1930s Poland: why do we need to read these autobiographies today?

Jan 31, 2016

A Litvakus concert-cum-sociolinguistics-lecture doubles as a revolution you can dance to.

Jan 27, 2016

The fourth in a series of five posts about an autobiography found in the YIVO archives from 1930s Poland: suicide and the modern library of a maskil.

Jan 24, 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

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