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Pedagogy
Our Summer of Tkhines
Rabbi Marna Sapsowitz and Sharon Power
Reflections of a rabbi and a Yiddish teacher who shared their respective areas of expertise to collaboratively teach tkhines .
Sep 29, 2024
Blog
“Tear Up The Harsh Decrees”: Reflections on Tkhines for the High Holidays
Jacob Romm
Jacob Romm looks to tkhines — Yiddish women’s devotional literature — for High Holidays prayers that "feel earnest, tender, and richly human."
Oct 17, 2019
Special Issue
Religious Thought in Yiddish
Articles, translations, resources
This special issue of In geveb, edited by Ariel Evan Mayse, Naomi Seidman, Marc Caplan, and Daniel Reiser, explores a range of theological, philosophical, and other religious themes as presented in a wide variety of Yiddish writings.
Jan 2019
Article
A Narrow Path: Language and Longing for a Holy Place that is Lost
Aviv Luban
For the nascent Polish Braslev Hasidic movement, the events of 1917 and their aftermath severed the group from its Holy Place: the grave of Reb Nakhmen in what is now Uman, Ukraine. This geopolitical reality elicited a unique literary and spiritual response in the form of an impassioned prayer, penned by Reb Yitskhok Brayter (c. 1886-1942), a leader of that community.
Jan 27, 2019
Article
Kratsn in der linker peye: yidish, yidishkayt, un dos pintele yid: A special issue of In geveb on Religious Thought in Yiddish
Ariel Evan Mayse, Naomi Seidman, Marc Caplan and Daniel Reiser
An introduction from the editors of the special issue of In geveb on Religious Thought in Yiddish.
Jan 20, 2019