“Hasidism”
Blog
Going Off Script: The Contradictory Pleasures of Unorthodox
Roni Masel
Roni Masel proposes a "failed watching" of Netflix's new series Unorthodox that sidesteps questions of authenticity in representation and instead "generates what we could call queer pleasure or OTD pleasure."
Jun 29, 2020
Blog
Briv funem Arkhiv: 1987 Poster Announcing Pilgrimages to Lezajsk (Lizhensk)
Shifra Epstein
Posters like this one for special events, graduations, sales of Hasidic garments, computers, new books, videos and more are still popular in the Hasidic neighborhoods of Brooklyn. However, in recent years the internet has changed the business.
Jan 24, 2020
Text & Translation
מועתק בלשונו הק׳
In His Holy Idiom
R. Aaron of Karlin
Translation by Joshua Schwartz
Feb 27, 2019
Text & Translation
דער רבי ר' בעריש בעל־תּשובֿה פֿון קראָקע
The Rebbe R. Berish Bal-tshuve of Krakow
Meir Bałaban
Translation by Avinoam J. Stillman
1931 newspaper article by the Polish Jewish historian Meir Bałaban concerning the curious Hasidic figure known as Berish Bal-tshuve
Feb 27, 2019
Blog
“Being a man was about being tough, not backing down”: Rappers, Hasids, Sabras, and the Battle for the Future of Jewish Israeli Male Identity
Avi Blitz
Zionism sought to alter forever the image of the Jewish male. Avi Blitz looks at what happened, and how Yiddish fits in.
Feb 19, 2019
Special Issue
Religious Thought in Yiddish
Articles, translations, resources
This special issue of In geveb, edited by Ariel Evan Mayse, Naomi Seidman, Marc Caplan, and Daniel Reiser, explores a range of theological, philosophical, and other religious themes as presented in a wide variety of Yiddish writings.
Jan 2019
Article
Kratsn in der linker peye: yidish, yidishkayt, un dos pintele yid: A special issue of In geveb on Religious Thought in Yiddish
Ariel Evan Mayse, Naomi Seidman, Marc Caplan and Daniel Reiser
An introduction from the editors of the special issue of In geveb on Religious Thought in Yiddish.
Jan 20, 2019
Article
Traveling and Traversing Chabad’s Literary Paths: From Likutei torah to Khayim gravitser and Beyond
Eli Rubin
This paper aims to complicate the neat chronology that bifurcates modern Jewish literature from its Hasidic roots, using Fishl Schneersohn's novel Khayim Gravitser and Avraham Shlonsky's Hebrew translation of the novel to demonstrate that these authors continued the Hasidic literary tradition of Chabad even as they embraced alternative literary forms in the cause of new aesthetic agendas.
Oct 09, 2018