“briv funem arkhiv”

The preserved pages of the guest book of Lublin’s renowned yeshiva tell us about the remarkable range of cyclists, Esperantists, local rabbinical students, Catholic seminary students, Hasidic rabbis, and Revisionist Zionists who all came to visit in the 1930s.

From the 1920s until the 1950s, Yiddish Buenos Aires hosted a thriving theatrical landscape. Critics complained that the public’s adoration of “stars” propelled a preponderance of shund at the expense of “better” (literary) plays.

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

We’re back! Did you miss us?

Do you have something to say about your experience with In geveb? Now’s your chance to share.

A conversation with Stefanie Halpern about this centennial book highlighting one hundred objects chosen from YIVO’s twenty-four million.

Every two years, the town of Kutno, Poland hosts the Sholem Asch Festival, which organizers describe as an “event connecting the past with the present of Kutno, once a Polish-Jewish town in which Jews constituted over 70% of the population in the 19th century.”

Heskes explores the contents of a slim, blue-leathered notebook he found in his parents’ garage. The notebook belonged to his grandmother’s mother, the Yiddish writer Dora Schulner.

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