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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.
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A Conversation on Yiddish Studies, Jewish Studies, and Ukraine
Amelia Glaser and Jeffrey Veidlinger have been engaged with sharing their expertise — literary and historical — about Jewish histories of Ukraine. We asked them what they have to say about the war in Ukraine to the Yiddish studies scholars, students, and community of In geveb.
Jun 28, 2022
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The Latest in Yiddish Studies in English: 2021
The 2021 installment of our annual effort to gather together the latest publications relevant to Yiddish Studies in English.
Jun 19, 2022
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How to Suppress Tea Arciszewska’s Writing: A Case Study
Faith Jones’ analysis of the strategies used to suppress Yiddish women’s writing (based on Joanna Russ’s 1983 essay) help us understand the ways that Tea Arciszewska’s male contemporaries all too often belittled and dismissed her contributions.
Jun 02, 2022
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How to Suppress Yiddish Women’s Writing
Joanna Russ’ 1983 schematic of strategies and dynamics that suppress women’s writing — along with some additions specific to modern Yiddish culture — helps explain both the historical suppression of Yiddish women writers and more recent challenges to feminist scholarship on women’s Yiddish writing. Faith Jones guides us to make the Yiddish future together, and to make our place in it.
May 31, 2022