“book history”

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.

May 03, 2025

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.

Apr 22, 2025

Through translation and creative writing - in the form of found poems - Dalia Wolfson explores the experiences of the women reciting tkhines in the Early Modern period.

Jul 12, 2024