Blog

Klezcadia’s inau­gur­al 2024 fes­ti­val was ful­ly hybrid, COVID-cau­tious, and includ­ed day­time work­shops and evening con­certs with a vari­ety of West Coast klezmer lumi­nar­ies and Yid­dish teachers.

Aug 08, 2024

You’ve been busy read­ing this year!

Aug 03, 2024

In The Great Dic­tio­nary of Yid­dish Lan­guage: A Cham­ber Opera, com­pos­er Alex Weis­er and libret­tist Ben Kaplan endow enchant­ment and glam­or on their decid­ed­ly unglam­orous pro­tag­o­nists and, most impor­tant­ly, height­en our atten­tion to their doubts and tor­ments the way only an opera can. 

Jul 25, 2024

In geveb is seek­ing a Peer Review Asso­ciate for the 2024 – 2025 aca­d­e­m­ic year.

Jul 17, 2024

Aya Elya­da inter­views Cha­va Tur­ni­an­sky and dis­cuss­es her career, her research, and the state of the field of Old Yid­dish lan­guage and literature.

Jul 12, 2024

Through trans­la­tion and cre­ative writ­ing — in the form of found poems — Dalia Wolf­son explores the expe­ri­ences of the women recit­ing tkhines in the Ear­ly Mod­ern period.

Jul 12, 2024

An inside peek at the annu­al week­end Yid­dish immer­sion retreat.

Jul 08, 2024

A Yid­dish teacher and soft­ware engi­neer tack­les a thorny acces­si­bil­i­ty issue: how to teach a high­ly moti­vat­ed stu­dent who reads braille when no braille soft­ware in the world offers Yid­dish as one of the lan­guage options. 

Jun 21, 2024

A wide-rang­ing con­ver­sa­tion about the sta­tus of Yid­dish in Swe­den, cre­at­ing new Yid­dish tele­vi­sion, pro­mot­ing Yid­dish, and the inter­con­nect­ed world of Yid­dish cul­tur­al activists.

Jun 17, 2024

Trans­la­tion into Eng­lish adds anoth­er lay­er to the inter­twined lega­cy of trans­la­tion and migra­tion in the works pre­sent­ed in this recent volume.

Jun 11, 2024