“academia”

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

Mar 14, 2024

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

Apr 10, 2023

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

Nov 30, 2022

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

Jun 19, 2022

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

May 28, 2021

The Rise and Fall makes strikingly clear claims about all that is wrong with the field, from its insiderism to its uncritical reliance on “culture” and “ethnicity.”

May 09, 2021

Ayelet Brinn discusses Professors Gennady Estraikh's and Mikhail Krutikov's long-running series, Studies in Yiddish, for Legenda, and the changes they’ve seen in academic publishing and Yiddish studies over the course of the past twenty years.

Mar 23, 2021

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

Oct 14, 2020

Newton’s book provides a stirring call for a Jewish Studies to come, a proposal for new forms of affiliation, both within the loose boundaries of Jewish Studies and extending outward to the whole of the Humanities and to the university as an institution. What might it mean for Yiddish Studies to participate in this coming community?

Oct 05, 2020

An annotated bibliography of Yiddish Studies scholarship published in Russia between 2014 and 2019.

May 05, 2020

The purpose of this document is to fill some of the gaps in the YIVO system of transliteration for bibliographies. 

Jul 02, 2019

A bibliography of the output of Yiddish scholarship published in English last year.

Jun 19, 2019

May 27, 2019

A bibliography of the output of Yiddish scholarship published in English last year.

Apr 23, 2018

Feb 12, 2018

Yuu Nishimura discusses the current state of Yiddish Studies in Japanese universities as well as her own resesarch and a workshop she organized at the universities of Kyoto and Tokyo on “Yiddishism and the Creation of the Yiddish Nation.” 

May 30, 2017

This online bibliographical series devoted to research resources in Yiddish Studies focuses on Yiddish literature and culture. 

May 08, 2017

A bibliography of the prolific output of Yiddish scholarship published in English last year. 

Feb 08, 2017

A medievalist uses Yiddish in her scriptural scholarship. 

Nov 10, 2016

In geveb seeks proposals for Special Issues of the journal. 

Oct 24, 2016

This online bibliographical series devoted to research resources in Yiddish Studies focuses on digital collections in Yiddish Studies. 

Oct 18, 2016

This online bibliographical series devoted to research resources in Yiddish Studies focuses on “Meta”-resources – bibliographies, web gateways, online scholarship, indexes, library and archival resources, encyclopedias. 

Sep 05, 2016

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

May 16, 2016

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

Feb 07, 2016

A report from a November conference in Warsaw "Yiddishism: Mythologies and Iconographies."

Dec 21, 2015

What is the future of Yiddish scholarship? An argument for the potential innovative role for Yiddish studies within the humanities in general.

Dec 07, 2015

Zisl Slepovitch of the band Litvakus on klezmer, gathering stories, and growing up in Belarus. 

Nov 19, 2015

At Yiddish academic conferences in Israel, English is often the language of scholarship and conversation. Why? 

Nov 10, 2015