Signing off for the summer (at long last!)

Tayere leyeners, Dear readers:

It has been such a very productive publishing year that we’ve kept on going until mid-way through the summer! At long last we’re announcing our summer publishing break; we will return to our regular publishing schedule in the fall. In the meantime, we encourage you to use this time to catch up on reading the material we’ve published this year that you may have missed!

We published a lot this year:

- 11 standalone translations and one special issue on gendered literary debates in Yiddish, which included 9 translations

- 12 pedagogy pieces

- 25 blog posts

- 21 book reviews (of literary translations and academic books)

- A special issue on Old Yiddish, which includes 6 peer reviewed academic articles, as well as an interview, a book review, and one piece of original creative writing.

- Regular recurring resources such as: summer programs roundup, translations roundup, latest in Yiddish studies bibliography, and, of course, our Purim issue

We are proud of each and every piece we published. We are particularly gratified that our work publishing Yiddish material for thinking about the war in Israel/Gaza (such as pedagogy resources and contemporary poetry) proved popular among our readers - we hope this means it served you well. You can read about our most widely-read pieces this year here.

CHANGES AT IN GEVEB

Two members of our staff will be saying goodbye to us this coming year: Elena Hoffenberg, our Peer Review Associate, and Jeremy Sarna, our Development Associate. While we will miss them, we see turnover as a sign of our good health as a journal and our commitment to supporting up-and-coming scholars and Yiddishists.

This means we’re looking for new editorial staff – could that be you? Please share our openings for Peer Review Associate and Development Associate widely, and of course, please apply yourself. We especially invite applications from people with identities underrepresented in Yiddish Studies, Jewish Studies, and/or academia in general. Members of marginalized groups often have greater hesitancy about their qualifications for a given job posting, so even if you don’t think you meet 100% of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway. Offering professional training is part of our mission as a journal!

TEN YEARS OF IN GEVEB

Next year will be In geveb’s tenth year publishing, and look how much it’s grown! We are planning ways to celebrate the scholarship, creativity, and community we’ve cultivated over these past ten years - and we could use your help. If you would like to volunteer to be on - or lead - a project to commemorate this landmark anniversary, please reach out to [email protected]. We are particularly looking for volunteers with the following skills:

- Event planning

- Experience with crowdsourced fundraising platforms

- Writers interested in reflecting on what In geveb has meant to them

- Enthusiasm for supporting In geveb

If any of these descriptions fits you and you have time, expertise, and energy to share with us, please reach out. We are a small staff and we can’t celebrate the journal as much as it deserves without help from our readers (that means YOU!).

GIVING TO IN GEVEB

None of our work would be possible without our donors. In a time when cultural and scholarly labor is often underfunded or not funded at all, our goal has been to compensate the work of editors, writers, and translators to the best of our ability, especially early-career academics, contingent faculty, and independent scholars. We are grateful to the individual donors and charitable foundations that make this possible.

If you have read, enjoyed, or learned from our work at In geveb, please consider making a contribution. Your donation will go directly back into the work we do: it will pay our editors and our contributors, cover the costs of web hosting and support, help us bring in new editorial staff, enable us to commission new writing, and undergird new initiatives. Your help matters tremendously to us. Thank you for your generosity.

We also encourage you to consider signing up to make a small monthly contribution to In geveb. In addition, you can shop for In geveb swag at our Redbubble store, where a percentage of the proceeds goes to us.

SEND US YOUR WRITING!

We know you’ll miss us over our summer publishing break, but don’t worry—we’ll be back in the fall with terrific new material. And some of it could be written by you!

We encourage you to send us your pitches and your writing throughout the summer and beyond. In our submission process, we aim to pay critical attention to gender, racial, religious, and career diversity. We are committed, in all sections of the journal, to leveraging our digital format and flexible publishing schedule to accommodate contributors from a variety of backgrounds and professional situations, especially those who face structural barriers to publication within and outside academia. We encourage all potential contributors to be in touch with section editors with questions concerning content, scope, or queries regarding developmental editing. We also welcome feedback on how we can make our submission and publication process more equitable and inclusive.

We accept writing on a rolling basis, though our email response time may lag while we’re off enjoying our break. We can’t wait to hear from you and read your work.

We’ll be back soon! Thank you for reading, and we look forward to seeing you “in geveb.”

Jessica Kirzane and the In geveb editorial team