Saul Noam Zaritt

During my time editing In geveb’s peer review section, I often found myself plagued by the problem of the detail.

Apr 15, 2026

Thinking beyond notions of origin, nativity, and possession in language, Henig offers a reflection on the paradoxes of ethnolinguistic nationalism and what it might mean, instead, to linger on the stuttering, nomadic, and ghostly modes of an undead language.

Jun 05, 2025

If the manifesto is to do anything, to make anything, it will be in how others take up its charges, reformulate its conclusions, and object to its provocations. I am less interested in its mechanical application than in its ghostly afterlives. It is these possible flights that humble me.

Jan 08, 2025

A translation of Khone Shmeruk’s foundational article for the study of shund in Yiddish literature.

Apr 21, 2023

Newton’s book provides a stirring call for a Jewish Studies to come, a proposal for new forms of affiliation, both within the loose boundaries of Jewish Studies and extending outward to the whole of the Humanities and to the university as an institution. What might it mean for Yiddish Studies to participate in this coming community?

Oct 05, 2020

Abraham Sutzkever’s poetry is often read within the confines of “Holocaust literature”. This essays reads a selection of Sutzkever’s poetry against the Holocaust, against the apocalypse, and against the horizons of meaning that the label of “Holocaust literature” might impose.

Jun 30, 2020

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

Jun 19, 2019

Milgroym editor Rachel Wischnitzer’s essay on illustrated Hebrew manuscripts

Jun 06, 2018

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

Apr 23, 2018

Yiddish is Dead! Yiddish is Alive! Yiddish is the Living Dead? 

Mar 09, 2017

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

Feb 08, 2017

Jacob Glatstein reminisces about the spa town of Nałęczów and about Bella Mandelsberg, a young historian he met there. 

Jan 23, 2017

In geveb’s founding editor discusses different models of Yiddish in relation to world literature through the figures of Sholem Asch and Jacob Glatstein. 

Jan 23, 2017

A no-holds-barred essay from Jacob Glatstein on publishing, translation, and world literature. 

Jan 23, 2017

Chief Editor Saul Noam Zaritt introduces our series of essays reflecting on the state of Yiddish translation. 

May 01, 2016

A new volume of poetry that re-imagines Yiddish folk song as confession, political protest, and playful soundscape.

Apr 05, 2016

An interview with Stefanie Halpern, assistant curator of the current exhibition on New York’s Yiddish Theater at the Museum of the City of New York.

Mar 29, 2016

Jill Soloway and Micah Fitzerman-Blue on writing Transparent in Yiddish, whether or not you noticed. 

Mar 01, 2016

A bibliography of scholarly works in Yiddish Studies published in English over the last two years.

Feb 07, 2016

When American popular culture imagines Yiddish as a language of vulgar comedy, how can Yiddish cultural activists respond? 

Dec 24, 2015

Mikhail Krutikov calls for the revival the intellectual relations, coordination, and exchange between the different corners of Yiddish Studies.

Dec 06, 2015

Listen to a contemporary rethinking of Birobidzhan, the longed-for but mostly imaginary Jewish territorial project.

Oct 18, 2015

Attracting students to Yiddish language courses is often a challenge; here’s an example of one teacher’s Yiddish ad campaign. 

Oct 14, 2015

Refoyl Finkel talks to In geveb about making digitized Yiddish texts searchable.

Sep 06, 2015

Welcome to In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies, the online home for Yiddish Studies. In geveb aims to be a central address for the study of all things Yiddish—the focal point for discussions of Yiddish literature, language, and culture, and 
the home for the next generation of Yiddish scholarship.

Aug 14, 2015

What the ascot can teach us about Yiddish cultural history. 

Aug 10, 2015

Ever wonder why the Yiddish dictionary has only four volumes, all for the letter aleph? Click here to find out!

Aug 09, 2015