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

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Introducing Yiddish Barcelona: An Interview Ahead of its First Year

This summer, Yiddish Barcelona is in its inaugural year, which will run for a week from July 19 through July 26, 2026. In this interview, In geveb’s editorial intern Dinah Megibow-Taylor sits down with program coordinators Malena Chinski and Golda van der Meer to discuss everything from the origins of this program to its future.

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Nayer Dor(s?), New Vistas for Radiant Others

I created Radiant Others way back in 2017 to share casual, in-depth, wide-ranging conversations with musicians, dancers, scholars, actors, and poets. My dream is that our listeners get mesmerized by our Yiddish world—and inspired to invest themselves, to do the work to create a place for themselves in it. 

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Mir zaynen do: A Conversation with Sarah Schulman about Yiddish in Sweden

A conversation about Schulman’s new edited anthology, Jiddisch i Sverige: mir zaynen do.

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A Whole Life of Poems: Glikl Speaks in Sonnets

Glikl of Hameln—or Glikl bas Judah Leib, as she is also called—began to nudge at my thoughts two years ago. 

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In geveb as a Diary

Writing for In geveb became a lifesaver for me.

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Frieda Vizel Talks Hasidic Williamsburg, YouTube, and Being an Educator

An interview about the multifaceted work of Frieda Vizel.

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A Movie Review in Yiddish—in Variety!

Going deep on Variety’s bilingual review of the Yiddish talkie Shir ha-shirim.

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The Art of Umshvaygn

The shvaygn that was passed down in my own family like a kind of inheritance left me yearning to fill in the silences.

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Latest Yiddish Translations, 2025

A roundup of translations published in 2025.

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Celebrating Ten Years of the Peer-Review Section

As we celebrate the tenth anniversary of In geveb, we are also excited to celebrate ten years of the peer-review section, which has, rather remarkably, published ten special issues and over sixty articles, with more on the way. 

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