“Sutzkever”

What happens when the focus of Yiddish Studies shifts from “diaspora” to “ecology”?

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.

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.

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.