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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.

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A Bintl Blitz-Briv

Announc­ing our new advice column. 

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Seizing the Means of Cultural Production: Hasidic Representation in Contemporary Yiddish Media

Lit­er­ary pro­duc­tion in Yid­dish is boom­ing, but because most of it is com­ing from Hasidic com­mu­ni­ties, schol­ars often over­look it. 

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The Continent: Thoughts Toward the Space of Contemporary Yiddishism

Edit­ing col­lect­ed vol­umes of Yid­dish writ­ing dur­ing WWII, Melekh Rav­itsh and Moyshe Rosen­berg imag­ined a forum for the exchange of infor­ma­tion, research, and ideas with the goal of devel­op­ing strong ties between Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ties through­out the Amer­i­can continents.


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Moshe Rabbenu Splits the Atom: Writers of the Forverts React to the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

A dive into the pages of his­tor­i­cal Yid­dish news­pa­pers from the dawn of the nuclear age

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CFP: "The Yiddish Press Beyond Its Pages": A special issue of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies

We invite sub­mis­sions to a spe­cial issue of In geveb that focus on the Yid­dish press beyond the usu­al con­fines of the print­ed word.

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