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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.

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In geveb is on Summer Break!

We look forward to publishing again in a few short months.

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Reader Favorites 2024-2025

As we near the end of our publishing year, we’re proud to share with you a roundup of the most widely-read pieces In geveb published this year.

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'Propaganda for Swedish Literature’ in Yiddish: On Mordko Forlerer

Mordechai Forlerer is today largely forgotten, even in Sweden, but during the interwar period he dedicated himself to what he called “propaganda for Swedish literature” (“propaganda för svensk litteratur”) in the Yiddish-speaking world.

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“Incomplete Mourning”: A conversation with Rokhl Kafrissen

A conversation about Yiddish, theater, the value we place on the past, and the need to grapple with it.

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Shotns -Shadows: Songs from Testimonies in the Fortunoff Video Archive, Volume III: An interview with D. Zisl Slepovitch

Meaghan Guterman speaks with D. Zisl Slepovich about his powerful collection of albums based on songs from Holocaust survivor testimonies held at the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University.

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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast

The Cockney Yiddish Podcast explores the unknown Yiddish popular culture of London’s East End through an array of newly discovered stories and songs from the 1880s to the 1950s.

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Seen from Afar: Henry Kreisel’s and Yankev Glatshteyn’s 1930s Vienna

Reflections on two works of fiction that provided an immersive rendering of Jewish persecution in 1930s Austria.

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Destruction Is and Is Not Forever : An Interview with emet ezell

on history, poetry, and typesetting.

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Yiddish in Vienna, 1904-1938: A Bibliography Tells (Nearly) All

An overview of the world of active Yiddish used and cultivated by twentieth-century literary migrants to Vienna, on the occasion of the completion of Thomas Soxberger’s twenty-year quest to establish the contours of Yiddish in Vienna.

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Multiple Voices, One Archive: In geveb and Fortunoff Archive Work to Encourage Scholarly and Artistic Interpretation of Yiddish Testimony

Introducing essays describing the projects that our fellows have undertaken to interpret materials from the archive artistically, musically, and for educative purposes.

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