Blog

Reflec­tions on two works of fic­tion that pro­vid­ed an immer­sive ren­der­ing of Jew­ish per­se­cu­tion in 1930s Austria.

May 20, 2025

on his­to­ry, poet­ry, and typesetting.

May 15, 2025

An overview of the world of active Yid­dish used and cul­ti­vat­ed by twen­ti­eth-cen­tu­ry lit­er­ary migrants to Vien­na, on the occa­sion of the com­ple­tion of Thomas Soxberger’s twen­ty-year quest to estab­lish the con­tours of Yid­dish in Vienna.

May 03, 2025

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.

Apr 22, 2025

For the Fortunoff/​In geveb fel­low­ship, Joan­na Spyra is devel­op­ing a teach­ing guide based on Yid­dish oral his­to­ry tes­ti­monies of Pol­ish-born, native Yid­dish-speak­ing Holo­caust sur­vivors who even­tu­al­ly estab­lished new lives in dis­tant and ini­tial­ly unfa­mil­iar places like Bolivia and Argentina.

Apr 22, 2025

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

Apr 22, 2025

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?”

Apr 22, 2025

Intro­duc­ing essays describ­ing the projects that our fel­lows have under­tak­en to inter­pret mate­ri­als from the archive artis­ti­cal­ly, musi­cal­ly, and for educa­tive purposes.

Apr 22, 2025

Put on your birth­day hats and hang your stream­ers because In geveb: A Jour­nal of Yid­dish Stud­ies is turn­ing ten this year!

Apr 16, 2025

The Cor­pus of Spo­ken Yid­dish in Europe, a dig­i­tal lan­guage archive sourced from Holo­caust sur­vivor tes­ti­monies from the USC Shoah Foun­da­tion, is a project fund­ed by a five-year CAREER Award from the Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion that will serve as a resource for Yid­dish lin­guis­tics, ped­a­gogy, and lan­guage revitalization.

Mar 27, 2025