We’re Back!

New writing in store for you

We have a great publication year planned that will help keep you connected to the world of Yiddish studies through reviews, new research, translations, pedagogical materials, and more.

You can look forward to seeing book review essays on works from across the spectrum of academic monographs and literary translations pertaining to Yiddish Studies; reflections on Yiddish concerts, performances, conferences and classes; resources for Yiddish language teachers; and academic articles that move the field forward in important ways. We hope you’ll consider contributing your own work to be presented among these exciting pieces.

Share your work with us

We’re accepting submissions across our journal, and we eagerly await your pitches.

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 or scope, or queries regarding developmental editing. We also welcome feedback on how we can make our submission and publication process more equitable and inclusive. You can read our full submissions guidelines here.

Our blog is seeking interviews, personal essays, listicles, reports about ongoing research, reportage from academic conferences, and other intriguing, surprising, personal, and critical observations about all corners of the Yiddish world. We are also eager to receive pitches for our Briv funem arkhiv (Letters from the Archive) series. We are seeking short reflections that contextualize and explain the significance of an artifact. A longer description of what we are looking for can be found here. Send pitches, queries, and musings to Managing Editor Sandra Chiritescu at blog@ingeveb.org.

We are also seeking reviews of Yiddish performances, exhibits, music, contemporary Yiddish literature and literary translations. If you would like to pitch us a review, please write to Cultural Reviews Editor Miranda Cooper, who can also be reached at [email protected].

The pedagogy section is open and eager for submissions of reflections, activities, worksheets, and syllabi from your Yiddish-related classes. We are also interested in critical biographical essays and other material that would allow us to build a repository of reference material for pedagogical purposes. In addition, we continue to welcome teaching guides around materials or themes on our site, as well as pedagogy polls. Send your pitches, inquiries, and materials to [email protected].

The articles section of In geveb welcomes your submissions for peer review, as well as proposals for book reviews. We encourage submissions from a wide variety of disciplines related to Yiddish studies, including (but not limited to) history, linguistics, anthropology, religious studies, sociology, and literature. Please email [email protected] if you would like to propose a book review, recommend a book for us to review, or submit an article.

Submissions for our translation section are currently open. We welcome translations of a wide variety of genres and subjects, and warmly invite first-time translators as well as experienced translators to send us their work. The publication process for translations is rigorous and lengthy, and we appreciate your patience as we process and evaluate your submissions. Send your inquiries and your work to [email protected].

All of us at In geveb are looking forward to sharing another year with you!

Support In geveb

Please consider making a contribution to In geveb. We are an independent, donor-supported organization and your support for our work makes an enormous difference. If you are able, please help ensure another rich, provocative, and diverse year of writing on all things Yiddish by signing up to make a small monthly contribution or a one time donation.

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Your donation will enable In geveb to be a central address for the study of all things Yiddish—a digital forum for discussions of Yiddish literature, language, and culture, and the home for the next generation of Yiddish scholarship. We are grateful for your continuing support of our work in Yiddish language and culture.

Yours in yidishkayt,

Jessica Kirzane, Editor-in-Chief

and the In geveb editorial team:

Sandra Chiritescu, Miranda Cooper, Aya Elyada, Elena Hoffenberg, Matthew Johnson, Josh Lambert, Jeremy Sarna, and Dalia Wolfson