Blog

Our edi­to­r­i­al team discusses/​debates our guide­lines for trans­lat­ing and translit­er­at­ing place names from the Yiddish.

Mar 20, 2016

In hon­or of Purim, a fine cal­ligraphed scroll of Yehoash’s trans­la­tion into Yid­dish of the Book of Esther, com­plet­ed by the poet­’s daugh­ter Chava.

Mar 22, 2016

Bernie Sanders, Demo­c­ra­t­ic fore­run­ner, speaks out on behalf of Yid­dish underdogs.

Mar 23, 2016

In a shock­ing turn of events on the eve of Pir­im, Yid­dish has been declared ful­ly revived!

Mar 23, 2016

After much delib­er­a­tion, and lob­by­ing from the Peylish Cau­cus, the In geveb Edi­to­r­i­al Board has resolved to use Gal­it­sian­er Stan­dard Yid­dish going forward.

Mar 23, 2016

Jamie Elman and Eli Batal­ion on lan­guage pol­i­tics in Mon­tréal, Jew­ish com­e­dy, and mak­ing pop cul­ture in Yiddish. 

Mar 27, 2016

An inter­view with Ste­fanie Halpern, assis­tant cura­tor of the cur­rent exhi­bi­tion on New York’s Yid­dish The­ater at the Muse­um of the City of New York.

Mar 29, 2016

A new vol­ume of poet­ry that re-imag­ines Yid­dish folk song as con­fes­sion, polit­i­cal protest, and play­ful soundscape.

Apr 05, 2016

The Lek­sikon fun der nay­er yidish­er lit­er­atur, which is full of hard-to-find bio­graph­i­cal and bib­li­o­graph­i­cal infor­ma­tion about Yid­dish writ­ers, is tough to access out­side insti­tu­tions or from the far side of a pay­wall. By method­i­cal­ly trans­lat­ing and post­ing entries from the Lek­sikon online, Josh Fogel is work­ing to change that. 

Apr 10, 2016

Where will you sip min­er­al water among the Yid­dish lit­er­ary elite?

Apr 25, 2016