Jessica Kirzane

In this updated version of our special issue on Race, af Yiddish, we offer a range of texts about local and international Yiddish representations of early twentieth century American racist violence.

Jun 25, 2021

Murphy’s translations of Perl’s stories allow us to appreciate an ever more colorful canvas of modern Yiddish literature.

Feb 28, 2021

Technology glitches and COVID-era difficulties are opportunities to be creative and think on our toes.

Feb 22, 2021

An innovative series of authentic real-world speaking and writing prompts for students finishing their first semester of Yiddish.

Feb 17, 2021

An original children’s story celebrating Yiddish-English translation.

Nov 22, 2020

An interview with translator Ellen Cassedy about her two translations of Yiddish children’s poetry into English: a collection of prewar children’s poems for a book called “Yiddish Zoo” and a collection of Boris Sandler’s “Good Morning” poems for children.

Nov 16, 2020

Jessica Kirzane uses a Forverts advice column to help her students practice lib hobn and other periphrastic verb structures and encourages teachers to borrow the exercise in their own classrooms.

Mar 26, 2020

This teaching guide offers suggestions and reflections from several scholars about teaching erotic Yiddish poetry.

Apr 09, 2019

Feb 13, 2019

A roundup of translations published in 2018. 

Jan 14, 2019

Oct 29, 2018

A short story from Leon Kobrin’s 1903 collection Geto dramen.

May 30, 2018

A bibliography of the output of Yiddish scholarship published in English last year.

Apr 23, 2018

Instructors share their thoughts on teaching with Sholem Aleichem.

Apr 03, 2018

Feb 27, 2018

Feb 12, 2018

Instructors share their thoughts on sharing about their personal lives and commitments while teaching Yiddish language or culture.

Jan 15, 2018

A short description of the many Yiddish language and culture summer programs on offer for 2018.

Jan 08, 2018

Jessica Kirzane discusses a creative writing prompt for students in a course on American Jewish Literature and shares samples of students’ work.

Nov 19, 2017

Yiddish language instructors share their thoughts about teaching Intermediate Yiddish. 

Sep 14, 2017

Participants and facilitators share their thoughts on Yiddish clubs and reading groups. 

May 22, 2017

The second in a series of teaching guides, this one for Maia Evrona’s translation of Yoysef Kerler’s poems “Old Fashioned” and “The Sea” (1979).

Jan 17, 2017

A short description of the many Yiddish language and culture summer programs on offer for 2017. 

Jan 08, 2017

Instructors share their thoughts on teaching Yiddish texts in translation. 

Nov 28, 2016

A discussion of how Feygi Zylberman, a middle school History and Jewish Studies teacher at a Progressive Jewish community day school in Melbourne, Australia, employs Yiddish in her classroom, with a worksheet to use alongside the divorce scene in the film Hester Street (1975).

Nov 14, 2016

The first in a series of teaching guides, this one for Eli Rosenblatt’s translation of Isaac Meir Dik’s introduction to his 1868 adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852).

Oct 25, 2016

A note from the new Pedagogy Editor about our plans for the Pedagogy section of In geveb for the coming year. 

Sep 11, 2016

The gritty, and controversial 1920s account of a lynching by Joseph Opatoshu.

Jun 21, 2016

What can Opatoshu’s controversial story about a lynching tell us about the complex Jewish encounter with American culture and the potential loss of an ethical tradition.

Jun 21, 2016

Yiddish teachers are always looking for good materials. Here, Jessica Kirzane demonstrates one way to use content from In geveb to structure and enhance her lessons.

Feb 17, 2016

The continued adventures of Miriam Karpilove’s “Lonely Girl” in a new translation by Jessica Kirzane 

Jan 20, 2016

A young woman in New York struggles with the ideals of romantic love. 

Jan 11, 2016

In geveb is sharing a series of games for use in Yiddish language classes.

Nov 01, 2015