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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.
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So You Know Where to Find Us: A Guide to Yiddish and In geveb at the 2025 AJS Conference
Your go-to guide for Yiddish at the AJS!
Nov 24, 2025
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Farbindungen 2025: Dispatches from Bad Yiddishland
Farbindungen 2025 was a celebration of Yiddish in all its messy, defiant, and ever-evolving forms.
Mar 24, 2025
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“Yiddish Ecologies: Velder, Felder, Berg Un Tol”: A Student’s Perspective
What happens when the focus of Yiddish Studies shifts from “diaspora” to “ecology”?
Mar 17, 2025
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Your Guide to Yiddish and In geveb at the 2024 AJS Conference
All the Yiddish Studies at the AJS conference, unter eyn dakh.
Nov 21, 2024
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Yiddishist Community in Intertwined Languages: 27th Symposium for Yiddish Studies in Germany (Düsseldorf)
The Symposium for Yiddish Studies in Germany is a unique conference that reflects the possibilities that are available with two linguistically-related languages.
Oct 31, 2024
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The Farbindungen Yiddish Studies Conference: A Collaborative Project to Share Scholarship and Create Connections
The third annual Farbindungen Yiddish Studies Conference will be taking place online from February 18-19th, 2024. Organizers Carolyn Beard, Caleb Sher, and Sophia Shoulson discuss the origins of the initiative, this year’s offerings, and the future of Yiddish studies with Chana Toth-Sewell.
Feb 08, 2024
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Onbotn fun robotn: Futures for Algorithmic Yiddishkayt
The Di robotn conference celebrated the legacy of bots in the Yiddish corpus, dreaming of futures for robots in the Yiddishist world.
Mar 05, 2023
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Yiddish Studies - Present and Future: A Conference Marking the 15th Yortsayt of Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter (z’’l)
Yiddish Studies - Present and Future: A conference marking the 15th yortsayt of Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter (z’’l) included discussion and debate.
Mar 03, 2023
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Report from a Conference: "The Avant-Garde in Yiddish Culture: The 100th Anniversary of Khalyastre", June 14-15, 2022
The multifaceted phenomenon of the Yiddish avant-garde holds a borderline mythic status among scholars—a short lived, often contradictory utopian project many of whose protagonists tragically perished.
Jan 30, 2023
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Your Guide to Yiddish and In geveb at the 2022 AJS Conference
This is the In geveb guide to Yiddish at the annual Association for Jewish Studies conference in Boston, December 2022.
Nov 30, 2022