“language politics”

Polish Yiddish is the Yiddish of today and the Yiddish of tomorrow. 

Jun 09, 2026

A wide-ranging conversation about the status of Yiddish in Sweden, creating new Yiddish television, promoting Yiddish, and the interconnected world of Yiddish cultural activists.

Jun 17, 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

Rebecca Margolis' Yidish Lebt: Yiddish Lives On: Strategies of Language Transmission explores how a diverse range of native, heritage, and new speakers have ensured not only the continuity of a minority language widely thought to be endangered, but evolved Yiddish into a site of creative renewal in the Jewish world.

Jun 08, 2023

German as a Jewish Language challenges the distinctions made between “Jewish” and “non-Jewish” languages and concurrently emphasizes the permeability between disciplinary boundaries.

May 18, 2021

Hillel Zeitlin's 1924 article on the language question presenting a novel perspective: the cultivation of both Hebrew and Yiddish is necessary to ensure the continued flourishing of the Jewish people. 

Jan 20, 2019

A comprehensive review of the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary, including many examples of entries. 

Jun 14, 2018

In anticipation of its third issue, here is the foreword to issue one of Mikan Ve'eylakh: Journal for Diasporic Hebrew.

Apr 30, 2018

Sarah Ellen Zarrow on language politics in Jabotinzky's Revisionist Zionism

Oct 25, 2017

Nike Thurn's recent book explores how Jewishness is performed in German literature. 

Oct 16, 2017

Naomi Brenner's new book complicates the story of the Hebrew-Yiddish "language wars" and argues that Jewish translingualism continues well into the 20th century. 

Sep 18, 2016

Turns out Sholem Aleichem was also a classic writer of fan mail. 

Apr 03, 2016

Jamie Elman and Eli Batalion on language politics in Montreal, Jewish comedy, and making pop culture in Yiddish. 

Mar 27, 2016

After much deliberation, and lobbying from the Peylish Caucus, the In geveb Editorial Board has resolved to use Galitsianer Standard Yiddish going forward.

Mar 23, 2016

Our editorial team discusses/debates our guidelines for translating and transliterating place names from the Yiddish.

Mar 20, 2016

An Israeli TV show about the Hasidic Shtisel family explores the country's complicated language politics. 

Mar 06, 2016