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

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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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Briv Funem Arkhiv: Jessica Kirzner’s “The Beach” (1996) and Rokhl Fishman’s “Yam mikh arum” (1962)

The new­ly-redis­cov­ered The Beach” (1996) is a strik­ing ear­ly exam­ple of Yid­dish writer, trans­la­tor, edi­tor, and teacher Jes­si­ca Kirzane’s non-Yid­dish work.

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Mad Libs

The only Yid­dish revival sto­ry you’ll ever need.

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Onbotn fun robotn: Futures for Algorithmic Yiddishkayt

The Di robotn con­fer­ence cel­e­brat­ed the lega­cy of bots in the Yid­dish cor­pus, dream­ing of futures for robots in the Yid­dishist world.

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YIVO Finds More Archival Documents in Biden Home

This lat­est dis­cov­ery comes at a time when a stag­ger­ing num­ber of long-lost Yid­dish doc­u­ments have been show­ing up in the homes of promi­nent politicians.

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Printable Bronx Bohemian Fashion Paper Dolls

Now you can play with your favorite Yid­dish cul­tur­al figures!

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Shomer Aleichem: The Facts of A Life

This essay offers for the first time infor­ma­tion ver­i­fied by our own comedic sen­si­bil­i­ties about Shomer Aleichem’s sig­nif­i­cant and influ­en­tial corpus.

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