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

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Yiddish and the Jewish Voice in The Zone of Interest

Whether or not The Zone of Inter­est is a good film does not hinge on the usage of a minute-long melody. But I do believe its employ­ment tells us the film was impec­ca­bly researched by a Jew­ish direc­tor with a clear vision for who ought to say what, and when.

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New Inspirations for Jewish Music: A Review of the Concert Inaugurating this Year's POLIN Music Festival

The POLIN Music Fes­ti­val is an event ded­i­cat­ed to the broad spec­trum of Jew­ish music. This year, the con­cert inau­gu­rat­ing the 6th edi­tion of the fes­ti­val took place on Feb­ru­ary 23rd at the POLIN Auditorium.

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Review of Isaac Bashevis Singer's play "Enemies: A Love Story" at Lviv Theater

Bashe­vis Singer’s play takes on new mean­ing and rel­e­vance for Ukrain­ian audiences.

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Reclaiming Aspects of the Jewish Past and Remixing Them: An Interview with Performance Artist Julie Weitz

Weaver inter­viewed Julie Weitz about her ongo­ing Doikayt project: A series of rit­u­al­is­tic, impro­vi­sa­tion­al per­for­mances at Jew­ish sites across East­ern Europe.

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Loyt di Leyeners: Responses to “New Yiddish Poetry from the Israel-Gaza War”

We are pleased to share these respons­es in order to broad­en con­ver­sa­tion about poet­ry in the midst of disaster.

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A Chagall Mural for Brandeis University?

Even with a copi­ous­ly doc­u­ment­ed fig­ure like Cha­gall, mys­ter­ies can remain. What hap­pened to the mur­al he was sup­posed to make for Bran­deis University?

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Pin the Hat on Sholem Shachne

Play it today, or at least you should def­i­nite­ly play it in time for Pey­sekh.

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A Purim Letter from the Editors: Laughter is Despair's Opposite

Because laugh­ter artic­u­lates a hope for sur­vival we offer you once again our Purim issue of In geveb.

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Cerealized Yiddish: Good to the Last Dropkin

.קינדער זײַנען פֿאַרליבט אין די סעריאַלס

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