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A look at an example of the famed Yiddish new years cards. This one is a “good year ship ticket,” granting the receiver “120 free yearly round-trips for himself and his family.”

Sep 09, 2015

Refoyl Finkel talks to In geveb about making digitized Yiddish texts searchable.

Sep 06, 2015

An essay on the late Benjamin Harshav, one of the most important literary scholars of the last decades, and how in his work Yiddish served as a bridge between Europe, Israel, and North America, between poetry, translation, and scholarship.

Aug 26, 2015

Welcome to In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies, the online home for Yiddish Studies. In geveb aims to be a central address for the study of all things Yiddish—the focal point for discussions of Yiddish literature, language, and culture, and 
the home for the next generation of Yiddish scholarship.

Aug 14, 2015

A portrait of the kultur-tuer, Moyshe Shtarkman (1906-1975), the activist engaged in the day-to-day moments that materially and intellectually make Yiddish culture.

Aug 13, 2015

At the international symposium “Global Yiddish Culture: 1938-1949,” singer-songwriter Psoy Korolenko and Professor Anna Shternshis brought to life lost Yiddish songs of the Holocaust in an all-new concert and lecture program.

Aug 12, 2015

What the ascot can teach us about Yiddish cultural history.

Aug 10, 2015

Ever wonder why the Yiddish dictionary has only four volumes, all for the letter aleph? Click here to find out!

Aug 09, 2015