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Farbindun­gen 2025 was a cel­e­bra­tion of Yid­dish in all its messy, defi­ant, and ever-evolv­ing forms.

Mar 24, 2025

What hap­pens when the focus of Yid­dish Stud­ies shifts from ​“dias­po­ra” to ​“ecol­o­gy”?

Mar 17, 2025

All the Yid­dish Stud­ies at the AJS con­fer­ence, unter eyn dakh.

Nov 21, 2024

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

The third annu­al Farbindun­gen Yid­dish Stud­ies Con­fer­ence will be tak­ing place online from Feb­ru­ary 18 – 19^th, 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

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

Yid­dish Stud­ies — Present and Future: A con­fer­ence mark­ing the 15^th yort­sayt of Dr. Mord­khe Schaechter (z’’l) includ­ed dis­cus­sion and debate.

Mar 03, 2023

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

This is the In geveb guide to Yid­dish at the annu­al Asso­ci­a­tion for Jew­ish Stud­ies con­fer­ence in Boston, Decem­ber 2022.

Nov 30, 2022

In its mul­ti­lin­gual­ism and mul­ti­vo­cal­i­ty, this work­shop on Cold War Yid­dish was an anti-eulo­gy that spoke to after­lives instead of endings.

Mar 29, 2022