We’re Back, Spinning Our Webs of Yiddish Studies!

Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler (Development Associate) is a writer and folklorist. She earned her MA in folklore with a certificate in Jewish studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2021. Her thesis, "Mir Zaynen Do! Yiddish Songs and Jewish Futures" was published in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Jewish Folklore and Ethnology. She is a frequent contributor to Lilith magazine, and her work has also been featured in Southern Cultures, the Bitter Southerner, In geveb, and the New York Times.

Tamar Aizenberg (Peer Review Associate) is a PhD Candidate at Brandeis University in the Department of Near Eastern & Judaic Studies. Her dissertation is about Holocaust memory and focuses on the grandchildren of survivors and the grandchildren of perpetrators.

We also welcome the newest members of our Board of Directors, Rachel Rubinstein and Jeremy Sarna.

We are looking forward to the ways these new team members will grow and shape our journal!

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.

The articles section of In geveb welcomes your submissions for peer review, as well as proposals for book reviews. There are several advantages to publishing with In geveb. Because we are an open-access digital platform publishing your peer reviewed scholarship with us allows your work to get wider circulation that it would behind a paywalled journal or one that circulates primarily in print. Additionally, our digital-only format is particularly well suited to those who wish to publish without limits on the number of embedded images, audio components or videos they can use to support their arguments. We are excited to receive submissions from scholars throughout their career and are committed to a transparent, supportive editorial process. 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].

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, which consists of short reflections that contextualize and explain the significance of an artifact. Send pitches, queries, and musings to Managing Editor Sandra Chiritescu 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].

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

In geveb is seeking volunteers

Next year will be In geveb’s tenth year publishing, and we are planning ways to celebrate the scholarship, creativity, and community we’ve cultivated over these past ten years. 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

- Fundraising

- 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!).

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.

You can also support In geveb by shopping at our In geveb store on Redbubble. In geveb receives 20% of the cost of the products that you purchase from this store.

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:

Tamar Aizenberg, Sandra Chiritescu, Miranda Cooper, Aya Elyada, Matthew Johnson, Josh Lambert, Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler, and Dalia Wolfson