Blog
Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.
Interview
Diaspora Nationalism, Yiddish Contradiction: a conversation with Max Sparber
Diana Clarke
Max Sparber talks Wikipedia, open sourcing, exile, and contemporary white nationalism in the context of the diaspora
Mar 12, 2017
Blog
Announcing: Breytbord Nayes
The Editors
All the news that isn’t fit for anyone to read, ever.
Mar 09, 2017
Blog
Introducing YiddishSpa! A New Yiddish Program for Summer 2017
Dory Fox
In geveb announces the opening of a new summer sanatorium, for Yiddishists looking to improve their language skills while taking the cure.
Mar 09, 2017
Blog
Yiddish Lives! Loshn of the Living Dead
Saul Noam Zaritt and The Editors
Yiddish is Dead! Yiddish is Alive! Yiddish is the Living Dead?
Mar 09, 2017
Interview
An Interview with Boris Sandler
Sarah Ponichtera
The longtime editor of the Yiddish Forverts and author of fourteen books spoke with Sarah Ponichtera about growing up in Soviet Moldavia, being an immigrant, and reading.
Mar 06, 2017
Blog
Yiddish-language Feature Menashe Premieres at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival
Raphael Koenig
Menashe offers an intimate glimpse inside Hasidic Borough Park.
Feb 27, 2017
Interview
How to Shoot an Impossible Movie: An Interview with Menashe Lustig and Joshua Z Weinstein at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival
Raphael Koenig
An interview with the director and lead actor of the new Yiddish film, Menashe.
Feb 27, 2017
Interview
The Gefilte Manifesto
Madeleine Cohen
An interview with the authors of the new cookbook, The Gefilte Manifesto: New Recipes for Old World Jewish Foods.
Feb 23, 2017
Blog
Call For Papers: Religious Thought in Yiddish
The Editors
Abstracts are due by April 1, 2017 for a special issue of In geveb devoted to religious thought in Yiddish.
Feb 15, 2017
Blog
The Latest in Yiddish Studies in English: 2016
Rachelle Grossman and Saul Noam Zaritt
A bibliography of the prolific output of Yiddish scholarship published in English last year.
Feb 08, 2017