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A member of the 2023 In geveb/Fortunoff fellowship cohort reflects on the question “How can one ethically use recorded Holocaust testimony as the basis for musical composition?”

Apr 22, 2025

On the role of Yiddish in the Holocaust testimony of Julia Pirotte, a Polish Jewish photographer.

Apr 22, 2025

For the Fortunoff/In geveb fellowship, Joanna Spyra is developing a teaching guide based on Yiddish oral history testimonies of Polish-born, native Yiddish-speaking Holocaust survivors who eventually established new lives in distant and initially unfamiliar places like Bolivia and Argentina.

Apr 22, 2025

Veln Di Verter Oykh Nern (The Words Will Also Nourish) is a body of work, including an edition of artist books and twelve accompanying prints, that Etai Rogers-Fett created as an In geveb/Fortunoff fellow between Fall 2023 and Spring 2024. The work emerges from Paja L’s Yiddish testimony about her experiences as a young woman, teacher, and library worker in the Vilna Ghetto.

Apr 22, 2025

Put on your birthday hats and hang your streamers because In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies is turning ten this year!

Apr 16, 2025

The Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe, a digital language archive sourced from Holocaust survivor testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation, is a project funded by a five-year CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation that will serve as a resource for Yiddish linguistics, pedagogy, and language revitalization.

Mar 27, 2025

Farbindungen 2025 was a celebration of Yiddish in all its messy, defiant, and ever-evolving forms.

Mar 24, 2025

What happens when the focus of Yiddish Studies shifts from “diaspora” to “ecology”?

Mar 17, 2025

When you’re a Yiddishist, if you put in the work, it’s not too hard to push the envelope.

Mar 13, 2025

If you seek your shund on screen, look no further.

Mar 13, 2025