“Ukraine”

Bashevis Singer's play takes on new meaning and relevance for Ukrainian audiences.

Apr 08, 2024

This platform for primary source materials, syllabi, modules, online courses, and reflections gives instructors of East European history the tools to address paradigmatic changes in the field in their teaching.

Jan 18, 2024

What more can I do for my country, now so badly in need of support, except for teaching minority languages and Slavic-Jewish literature of Ukraine?

Jun 27, 2023

At the 2022 Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) conference this fall, a group of Yiddish instructors came together to discuss the particular challenges of teaching Yiddish language during the war in Ukraine.

Jan 18, 2023

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

Amelia Glaser and Jeffrey Veidlinger have been engaged with sharing their expertise - literary and historical - about Jewish histories of Ukraine. We asked them what they have to say about the war in Ukraine to the Yiddish studies scholars, students, and community of In geveb.

Jun 28, 2022

On February 24, 2022, Russian troops began bombing Yakovleva's Ukrainian, Russian-speaking hometown, Kharkiv. Nevertheless, she continued teaching Yiddish in Morbegno, Italy.

May 06, 2022

A selection of Osher Shvartsman's poems translated into English by Josh Price. 

Mar 23, 2022

Reyzl Grace MoChridhe translates three poems by Hinde Roytblat and Dina Libkes, two Yiddish authors with Kyiv connections, selected from Ezra Korman's Yidishe dikhterins anthology (1928).

Mar 09, 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

Debora Vogel’s 1935 essay, Lwowska Juderia, gives us a valuable snapshot of Lwów’s Jewish streets with an eye to the modern.

Oct 26, 2021

A delicious dispatch from the outskirts of Lviv. 

Mar 29, 2018

Excepts from Nokhem Shtif's accounts of pogroms in Ukraine during the Russian Civil War. 

Sep 15, 2016

Gennady Estraikh speaks with Managing Editor Sarah Ellen Zarrow about the groundbreaking project “A Comprehensive History of the Jews of the Soviet Union,” a seven-year initiative led by researchers in NYU’s Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies.

May 26, 2016