The Editors

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. 

Apr 15, 2026

Readers and writers of and for In geveb reflect on the journal.

Apr 15, 2026

Feb 27, 2026

To celebrate the upcoming one-year anniversary of our ten-year anniversary, we are pleased to announce our new fundraising appeal, the “Yiddish is Dying” Inspirational Wall Calendar.

Feb 27, 2026

Feb 27, 2026

In geveb just celebrated its 10th birthday and is gearing up for another exciting year ahead!

Oct 06, 2025

As we near the end of our publishing year, we’re proud to share with you a roundup of the most widely-read pieces In geveb published this year.

Jun 25, 2025

In geveb is announcing some changes in terminology and approach in light of the recent executive orders by the Ahasuerus administration.

Mar 13, 2025

In counterpoint to pervasive popular conceptions of Yiddish as backward-facing or nostalgic, we invite submissions to a special issue of In geveb on “Yiddish Science Fiction” that looks specifically toward Yiddish futures that touch on themes of science or technology.

Feb 19, 2025

All the Yiddish Studies at the AJS conference, unter eyn dakh.

Nov 21, 2024

We are pleased to share with you some announcements about our work for the coming year.

Sep 26, 2024

We’re on break, but here are some ways you can stay engaged with In geveb: Read, Volunteer, Give, and Write!

Aug 08, 2024

You’ve been busy reading this year!

Aug 03, 2024

In geveb is seeking a Peer Review Associate for the 2024-2025 academic year.

Jul 17, 2024

A conversation about the rewards and challenges of using Yiddish with older adults.

May 05, 2024

We are pleased to share these responses in order to broaden conversation about poetry in the midst of disaster.

Apr 02, 2024

Because laughter articulates a hope for survival we offer you once again our Purim issue of In geveb.

Mar 23, 2024

Feb 01, 2024

Check out the panels and presentations involving Yiddish at this year’s Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference.

Nov 28, 2023

Welcome to the 2023-2024 publishing year!

Sep 13, 2023

Jul 05, 2023

As our publishing year comes to a close, we’re proud to share with you a roundup of the most widely-read pieces In geveb published this year.

Jun 29, 2023

This is the In geveb guide to Yiddish at the annual Association for Jewish Studies conference in Boston, December 2022.

Nov 30, 2022

This August, Naydus Press published Toward Hopeful Skies, a trilingual (Yiddish, Ukrainian, English) volume of two works of children’s poetry, as a benefit volume to support the refugee resettlement agency HIAS’s work with refugees from Ukraine.

Oct 26, 2022

We’re back! Did you miss us?

Oct 11, 2022

Updates from In geveb as we head into our summer break!

Jul 13, 2022

What you liked best this year, a top ten countdown.

Jul 13, 2022

These projects demonstrate not only how clever and creative students can be, but also the variety of ways that students can express and display their thought and learning.

Jul 13, 2022

The 2021 installment of our annual effort to gather together the latest publications relevant to Yiddish Studies in English.

Jun 19, 2022

In geveb is seeking to hire a Peer Review Editorial Associate for the 2022-2023 academic year. This new member of our editorial team who will take an active role in the collaborative work of the journal. 

Jun 15, 2022

If you are an instructor of Yiddish Studies who has assigned unessay projects, we want to hear from you.

Apr 15, 2022

In geveb is seeking submissions from Yiddishists and scholars of Yiddish or Jewish history and literature who are in or from Ukraine.

Mar 28, 2022

We decided it was high time to make a little money off of you.

Mar 16, 2022

If you arrived at In geveb’s Purim issue reluctantly because you are not in the mood for laughter, Purim offers an outlet for other feelings as well, such as rage, hope, and despair.

Mar 16, 2022

We asked some experts, whose answers are dripping with wisdom.

Mar 16, 2022

The word איז is both funny and sad, like Yiddish itself. It comes from somewhere in Eastern Europe.

Mar 16, 2022

This listicle provides teachers with ideas for texts and music they may want to share with their students during the Russian war in Ukraine.

Mar 04, 2022

We want to learn from you about how teachers of Yiddish Studies approach (or avoid) teaching about Zionism and anti-Zionism in their classes, be it in its historical or contemporary manifestations.

Feb 10, 2022

We’re (belatedly) taking a winter publishing break. There’s plenty to read while we’re away.

Dec 24, 2021

What brings you to our site, and what keeps you coming back? What do you wish we published more of, and where can we improve? Tell us how we’re doing in our blog and pedagogy sections!

Dec 06, 2021

Check out the panels and presentations involving Yiddish at this year’s Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference.

Nov 16, 2021

Autumn’s here, and that means it is time to begin In geveb’s seventh publishing year. 

Oct 03, 2021

As we head into our summer publishing break, we share our accomplishments from the past year. Most of all, we thank you for being a part of our In geveb community.

Jun 30, 2021

The top ten most popular things we published this year, from children’s book reports to a peer reviewed special issue.

Jun 28, 2021

The latest installment of our annual effort to gather together the latest publications relevant to Yiddish Studies in English.

May 28, 2021

Several of In geveb’s youngest readers were hard at work over winter break and submitted wonderful book reports on Yiddish literature. 

Mar 09, 2021

Feb 23, 2021

Feb 21, 2021

While we usually conceive of the archive as a place to learn about the past, today we’re looking at a repository that can tell us about the place of Yiddish in today’s world full of rapid digital communication… and spam.

Feb 17, 2021

Dec 28, 2020

We at In geveb are deeply saddened by the untimely passing of David Shneer z”l. We have gathered tributes and reflections from several who knew him well together with David’s own words from In geveb’s archives in honor of David’s shloshim,

Dec 10, 2020

Our annual roundup of Yiddish at AJS for this year’s virtual conference -- including a virtual In geveb kave-sho!

Dec 06, 2020

Children ages 5 - 13 can read a Yiddish story in the translation or original and submit a book report to In Geveb.

Nov 19, 2020

Over the next few months, we’ll be bringing you a series of posts across the blog, pedagogy, and translation sections of In geveb, all with a focus on Yiddish children’s literature.

Nov 15, 2020

The newest installment of our annual effort to gather together the latest publications relevant to Yiddish Studies in English.

Oct 14, 2020

Oct 06, 2020

Now you can support our journal in style! Shop at our our Redbubble
store.

Oct 01, 2020

Sep 29, 2020

As we head into our summer publishing break, we reflect on the past year and welcome your contributions for next fall. Most of all, we thank you for being a part of our In geveb community.

Jul 15, 2020

Our readers’ favorite posts from the 2019-2020 publishing year, including translations, peer-reviewed scholarly articles, personal essays, roundups of Yiddish resources, and even a piece from our Purim issue.

Jul 14, 2020

We are seeking submissions for a special issue on Yiddish popular theater.

May 18, 2020

This year, due to the global pandemic, many summer Yiddish programs have announced that they will be moving online. We’ve collected the details here.

May 03, 2020

Universities around the globe have closed their campuses and many of our readers are shifting their courses online. In geveb is seeking best practices, advice, lesson plans, asynchronous assignments, descriptions of why and how you use particular digital tools and resources, personal essays, and more.

Mar 18, 2020

Welcome to In geveb’s 120 under 120 list, our annual selection of movers and shakers in the Yiddish world—all of them under 120 years of age! 

Mar 09, 2020

Mar 09, 2020

Mar 09, 2020

Mar 09, 2020

Mar 09, 2020

Mar 09, 2020

Mar 08, 2020

We are interested in pieces that place the recent events at YIVO in the context of discipline-wide trends, historical, economic, scholarly and otherwise, and that help us think through the broader forces that produced this moment and its possible ramifications. 

Feb 09, 2020

A call for pedagogy posts on teaching about historical and present-day issues of class and labor.

Jan 13, 2020

In geveb is among the cosponsors of an intensive workshop for reading handwritten Yiddish to be held September 6-7, 2020 at the University of Chicago

Jan 09, 2020

Check out the dozens of panels and presentations involving Yiddish at this year’s Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference.

Dec 04, 2019

In geveb is the ONLY open-access digital Yiddish studies journal around, and we depend on our community of readers like you for support. Can you chip in to help build the online home for Yiddish studies?

Dec 02, 2019

Sep 22, 2019

Our new Briv funem arkhiv section will feature short pieces about interesting, significant, funny, or surprising archival finds. 

Sep 22, 2019

Jul 11, 2019

Jul 09, 2019

Abstracts are due July 1, 2019 for a special issue of In geveb dedicated to the work and legacy of Debora Vogel (also rendered ‘Dvoyre Fogel’).

May 27, 2019

Mar 20, 2019

Abstracts are due by May 1, 2019 for a special issue of In geveb devoted to the subject of Yiddish and the Transnational in Latin America.

Feb 28, 2019

You can take the party out of New York, but you can’t take New York out of the party? 

Feb 08, 2019

In geveb relies on the support of our readers, please consider donating. 

Dec 14, 2018

A conversation between language instructors who teach and think about online courses, answering a series of questions that we posed in order to reflect on the state of online Yiddish language learning. 

Dec 12, 2018

Check out the dozens of panels and presentations involving Yiddish at this year’s Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference.

Dec 03, 2018

This summer we conducted a survey of our readers to find out how you think we’re doing, here’s what we learned. 

Oct 01, 2018

Sep 06, 2018

Sep 03, 2018

The top ten most popular things we published this year.

Jul 09, 2018

Calling all readers! We want to hear what you think.

Jul 05, 2018

New In geveb swag for our supporters!

Apr 30, 2018

Apr 26, 2018

Feb 27, 2018

Feb 27, 2018

Announcing a hybrid avant-garde academic project linking the early 20th century with the early 21st. 

Feb 06, 2018

Check out the dozens of panels and presentations involving Yiddish at this year’s AJS. 

Dec 11, 2017

Calling all teachers! Participate in our pedagogy poll.

Nov 06, 2017

Calling all teachers! Participate in our pedagogy poll. 

Sep 14, 2017

Sep 12, 2017

Highlights from the year here at In geveb.

Jun 19, 2017

Calling all teachers of Intermediate Yiddish! Participate in our pedagogy poll.

Jun 06, 2017

Do you facilitate or participate in a Yiddish club or reading group? We want to hear about it! Participate in our pedagogy poll. 

Apr 03, 2017

All the news that isn’t fit for anyone to read, ever. 

Mar 09, 2017

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

Mar 09, 2017

Do you teach courses related to the Holocaust? What role does Yiddish have in those courses? Let us know in this survey.

Feb 21, 2017

Abstracts are due by April 1, 2017 for a special issue of In geveb devoted to religious thought in Yiddish. 

Feb 15, 2017

A round-up of responses to the election of Donald Trump by scholars of Yiddish. 

Dec 22, 2016

This summer we conducted a survey of our readers to find out what you think about us, here’s what we learned. 

Dec 15, 2016

In geveb seeks proposals for Special Issues of the journal. 

Oct 24, 2016

Do you teach using translated texts from Yiddish sources? Tell us about it. 

Oct 04, 2016

Thoughts for a new academic year and changes behind the scenes at In geveb

Sep 05, 2016

You can still donate to get an In geveb tote! 

Aug 18, 2016

We want to know more about you and what you think of In geveb! 

Aug 17, 2016

Where will you sip mineral water among the Yiddish literary elite?

Apr 25, 2016

After much deliberation, and lobbying from the Peylish Caucus, the In geveb Editorial Board has resolved to use Galitsianer Standard Yiddish going forward.

Mar 23, 2016

In a shocking turn of events on the eve of Pirim, Yiddish has been declared fully revived!

Mar 23, 2016

Bernie Sanders, Democratic forerunner, speaks out on behalf of Yiddish underdogs.

Mar 23, 2016

In geveb is pleased to announce its Second Annual Call for Submissions for our Fall 2016 publishing cycle.

Feb 14, 2016

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

Feb 07, 2016

An end of year reflection from the core editorial staff of In geveb. 

Dec 12, 2015

The most important survey for Yiddish speakers: tell us about your Yiddish romances! 

Sep 21, 2015