Blog
Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.
Interview
Seeking and Queering Utopia: A Chat About the Steiner Summer Yiddish Program
Noam Green and Tova Benjamin
Queerness, religion, and the other in the Yiddish Book Center’s Steiner Summer Yiddish Program
Nov 24, 2017
Blog
Recreation as Education: Yiddish Vokh 2017
Sandra Fox
Sandra Fox on returning to summer camp at the Yidish Vokh, a week-long Yiddish language retreat for all ages.
Oct 31, 2017
Blog
Making Sense of Squiggles: Teaching and Learning Yiddish Stenography
Elena Hoffenberg
The invisible labor, and liberation, of a shorthand for Yiddish.
Oct 20, 2017
Blog
Queering Broadway: Indecent and Lesbian Yiddish Love
C Tova Markenson
Onstage, intimacy that’s untranslatable.
Sep 26, 2017
Interview
Remedy Before the Sickness: Eli Rosen on Translating Rhinoceros into Yiddish
Tova Benjamin
Tova Benjamin talks with Eli Rosen, translator of Rhinoceros, about fascism, Talmudic tractates, Yiddish fluency, and going OTD.
Sep 20, 2017
Blog
Behind the Scenes: Vaybertaytsh’s “Farvos” Series and the Making of “Mameloshn Academy?”
Sandra Fox
On making community and a Yiddish feminist podcast, or: where the academy ends and the self begins.
Aug 15, 2017
Blog
Amerike – The Golden Land is Yiddish in Form, Nationalist in Content
Tova Benjamin
Tova Benjamin on seeking authenticity at the theater.
Aug 01, 2017
Blog
Yiddish Tattooing: Embodied Text
Diana Clarke
What draws us to embody language, or to make explicit how language embodies us?
Jul 06, 2017
Blog
Two Years In: A Letter from the Editors
The Editors
Highlights from the year here at In geveb.
Jun 19, 2017