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

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Veln di verter oykh nern: Continuing Vilna’s Legacy of Cultural Resistance

Veln Di Vert­er Oykh Nern (The Words Will Also Nour­ish) is a body of work, includ­ing an edi­tion of artist books and twelve accom­pa­ny­ing prints, that Etai Rogers-Fett cre­at­ed as an In geveb/​Fortunoff fel­low between Fall 2023 and Spring 2024. The work emerges from Paja L’s Yid­dish tes­ti­mo­ny about her expe­ri­ences as a young woman, teacher, and library work­er in the Vil­na Ghetto.

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Julia Pirotte’s Yiddish

On the role of Yid­dish in the Holo­caust tes­ti­mo­ny of Julia Pirotte, a Pol­ish Jew­ish photographer.

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Centering the Voice of the Witness

A mem­ber of the 2023 In geveb/​Fortunoff fel­low­ship cohort reflects on the ques­tion How can one eth­i­cal­ly use record­ed Holo­caust tes­ti­mo­ny as the basis for musi­cal composition?”

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Announcing the 2023 Cohort of Fortunoff/In geveb Fellows

In geveb and the For­tunoff Video Archive for Holo­caust Tes­ti­monies at Yale Uni­ver­si­ty are part­ner­ing to fund mean­ing­ful schol­ar­ship and cre­ative pro­duc­tions based on the unique Yid­dish oral his­to­ries at the For­tunoff Archive.

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