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In geveb and the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University are partnering again to fund meaningful scholarship and creative productions based on the unique Yiddish oral histories at the Fortunoff Archive.

Feb 15, 2026

Greetings from the newest member of our team!

Feb 14, 2026

Harry Bochner runs the Yiddish dictionary project verterbukh.org, the most trusted lexicographical Yiddish resource on the web. If you’ve ever emailed [email protected] to purchase 2,000 definitions or apply a student discount, you’ve emailed Harry Bochner.

Feb 04, 2026

The League for Yiddish is hiring an Executive Director! Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath on the League’s mission, its territorialist history, and a job posting.

Feb 02, 2026

We are seeking submissions for In geveb’s peer review, pedagogy, translation, and blog sections from scholars, archivists, special collections librarians, artists, musicians, and other practitioners whose work intersects either directly or conceptually with Yiddish archives. 

Jan 22, 2026

I not only found “Fun Hitler-land” interesting from a historical perspective—I also found it compelling as a student of Yiddish. The text tested my linguistic abilities to understand and translate Yiddish jokes (which necessarily rely on Yiddish language conventions and 1930s cultural contexts) into contemporary English.

Jan 14, 2026

Do not be misled by the humble brown paper packaging: Di fliendike pave is a very ambitious project. Through Di fliendike pave, Isabel Frey shows the world what Yiddish song can be and what it can do.

Dec 19, 2025

It would be pleasant for me, as a singer, literary critic, and Yiddishist, to review LIDER MIT PALESTINE apolitically. But that is not possible.

Dec 18, 2025

Ilan Stavans and Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath talk Yiddish dictionaries, lexicography, and how the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary came to be.

Dec 10, 2025

In my parents’ attic in Cleveland, crammed into cardboard boxes that bow in the middle, is our ever-expanding hand-drawn family tree, along with old photos captioned in languages none of us can read and maps of empires that no longer exist.

Dec 09, 2025