“press”
Interview
Destruction Is and Is Not Forever : An Interview with emet ezell
Etai Rogers-Fett and emet ezell
on history, poetry, and typesetting.
May 15, 2025
Blog
Race Uprooted: Foreign Observation, American Racism, and Yiddish Journalism through I.J. Singer’s 1932 “Harlem Cabaret”
Jacob Morrow-Spitzer
In “What I.J. Singer Saw in the Black Cabarets in Harlem” (1932), Singer offers an intricate—and often highly unsettling and, at times, overtly racist—glimpse into how eastern European Jews imagined Black people and “Blackness” in America.
May 22, 2024
Pedagogy
Making Headlines at the University of Pittsburgh
Rachel Kranson
Dr. Rachel Kranson brought students in a course on Jews and the City to the "Text and Context" lab at the University of Pittsburgh library to print headlines on a working 1890s printing press.
Feb 20, 2024
Special Issue
Murder, Lust, and Laughter, or, Shund Theater
This special issue of In geveb, edited by Joel Berkowitz, Sonia Gollance, and Nick Underwood, examines shund and its connection to the popular Yiddish theater.
Apr 2023