Blog

Announc­ing our new advice column. 

Feb 27, 2018

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

Apr 27, 2018

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.

May 02, 2021

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

Oct 26, 2023

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

Jan 29, 2024

In ​“What I.J. Singer Saw in the Black Cabarets in Harlem” (1932), Singer offers an intri­cate — and often high­ly unset­tling and, at times, overt­ly racist — glimpse into how east­ern Euro­pean Jews imag­ined Black peo­ple and ​“Black­ness” in America. 

May 22, 2024