“digital humanities”

My search for Stencl over the years has taken me across the globe.

Nov 10, 2024

On Sunday, October 29th, DraCor released its Yiddish corpus (YiDraCor), making these Yiddish plays highly machine readable and ready out-of-the-box for computational literary study.

Oct 22, 2024

A Yiddish teacher and software engineer tackles a thorny accessibility issue: how to teach a highly motivated student who reads braille when no braille software in the world offers Yiddish as one of the language options. 

Jun 21, 2024

I went to Google, and typed in Yiddish Braille. Hebrew Braille had been used since the mid-twentieth century, so there had to be Braille for Yiddish, right?

Jun 21, 2024

The third annual Farbindungen Yiddish Studies Conference will be taking place online from February 18-19th, 2024. Organizers Carolyn Beard, Caleb Sher, and Sophia Shoulson discuss the origins of the initiative, this year’s offerings, and the future of Yiddish studies with Chana Toth-Sewell.

Feb 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

Shund.org launched in beta mode on August 9, 2023.

Oct 01, 2023

Despite the popularity of Urke Nachalnik's writings in interwar Poland, bibliographic resources on the figure have been scant, until now.

Apr 17, 2023

The Di robotn conference celebrated the legacy of bots in the Yiddish corpus, dreaming of futures for robots in the Yiddishist world.

Mar 05, 2023

Yiddish researchers are training Transkribus, a cutting-edge digital platform for the transcription, automatic text detection, and enrichment of handwritten archival documents, to decipher Yiddish-language handwriting, which will facilitate and boost research into hidden treasure troves, rich in Jewish cultural heritage.

Feb 07, 2022

This essay is a companion piece to my article, “Freidus, Borokhov, and the Café Royal.” Baker explains the research methods behind the article, assessing the rewards and pitfalls of researching using exclusively on what is available online and the resources he has in his home, during the coronavirus pandemic.

Mar 04, 2021

Faith Hillis reflects on building digital Yiddish community amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests.

Jun 22, 2020

As many Yiddish instructors have abruptly had to move their courses online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Paula Teitelbaum shares lessons and wisdom from her extensive experience with online Yiddish pedagogy.

Mar 23, 2020

Universities around the globe have closed their campuses and many of our readers are shifting their courses online. In geveb is seeking best practices, advice, lesson plans, asynchronous assignments, descriptions of why and how you use particular digital tools and resources, personal essays, and more.

Mar 18, 2020

Elena Hoffernberg interviews Gerben Zaagsma about his path to studying Yiddish in the Spanish Civil War; the potency and the frustrations of digital research; and the future of digital studies and Yiddish.

Feb 25, 2020

Ari Kelman talks with Mark Slobin about Inside the Yiddish Folk Song, a new website project currently under construction, which aims to be an accessible, comprehensive online introduction to the full complexity of the Yiddish folk song tradition.

Feb 14, 2020

A conversation between language instructors who teach and think about online courses, answering a series of questions that we posed in order to reflect on the state of online Yiddish language learning. 

Dec 12, 2018

Feb 27, 2018

Feb 12, 2018

Announcing a hybrid avant-garde academic project linking the early 20th century with the early 21st. 

Feb 06, 2018

In November 2016, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum launched the beta version of Experiencing History: Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust, a primary-source teaching tool that aims to bring Jewish sources from the Holocaust to the North American undergraduate classroom. Emil Kerenji describes the tool and how it can be used. 

Oct 10, 2017

The third in a series of reflections on Yiddish pedagogy in the digital age. Here, Sunny Yudkoff discusses her use of radio broadcasts in her Yiddish courses. 

Apr 19, 2017

The fourth in a series of reflections on Yiddish pedagogy in the digital age. Here, Paula Teitlebaum discusses the way that digital technology has shaped her teaching.

Apr 18, 2017

The second in a series of reflections on Yiddish pedagogy in the digital age. Here, Nikolai Borodulin reflects on the challenges and rewards of teaching Yiddish courses online. 

Apr 07, 2017

The first in a series of reflections on Yiddish pedagogy in the digital age. 

Mar 27, 2017

An interview with Jeremy Dauber about the new website SholemAleichem.org

Jan 18, 2017