Loyt di leyeners & shraybers: Our Readers and Contributors Weigh in on Why In geveb Matters | In geveb Readers and writers of and for In geveb reflect on the journal.

More from our Special Issue 🦚 Loyt di leyeners & shraybers: Our Readers and Contributors Weigh in on Why In geveb Matters

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My Max Weinreich Moment or, How In geveb Came into Being | In geveb That was my cue, my epiphany... "Now it’s your turn; itst iz gekumen ayer rey.” At that moment, I felt Dr. Max Weinreich shining his countenance down upon me fr

“You see this journal?” I asked with rhetorical flourish. “It was created in 1981 by eight recent PhD’s, one of whom is sitting right in front of me, and together we launched the field of Jewish literary history. Now it’s your turn; itst iz gekumen ayer rey.” 🦚

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Models for Left Jewish Politics and Culture? On Benjamin Balthaser's New Cultural History | In geveb Balthaser’s book is rich with detail and personal stories, modest, even self-effacing in its presentation, but far-reaching in potential inspiration and implica

NEW: "Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left" by Benjamin Balthaser, reviewed by Zackary Sholem Berger

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Song of This Journal: Celebrating 10 Years of In geveb | In geveb At our own In geveb (named for Yehoash’s poetry collection), we have celebrated ten years of expansive Yiddish Studies scholarship.

We will be sharing all pieces from this special issue over the coming weeks, but for now, thank you, all of you: readers, teachers, students, writers, editors, supporters, friends, colleagues, Yiddishists, and Yiddish-curious alike. Biz milyonen, In geveb!
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In Honor of Our 10th Yoyvl....a very Special Issue!

We are still celebrating 10+ years of In geveb with reflections (in varying forms) and endless, sincere gratitude to our readers and supporters who have helped us reach this milestone.

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“Sven-Erik Rose’s excellent new book Making and Unmaking Literature in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna Ghettos is the first scholarly work to focus exclusively on literary writings from the ghetto corpus and to explore how they work as literature.”. @brandeispress.bsky.social

"Against all odds, significant works of reportage, fiction, poetry, memoir, chronicle, and essayistic reflection have survived from the ghetto period, thanks in large measure to Emanuel Ringelblum and his colleagues at the Oyneg Shabes archive.." ⤵️

NEW: Rabbinical Literature in Yiddish and Ladino, edited by Katja Šmid, David M. Bunis, and Chava Turniansky, reviewed by Roni Cohen 🦚

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Review of Making and Unmaking Literature in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna Ghettos by Sven-Erik Rose | In geveb Sven-Erik Rose devotes tremendous care to the texts he studies, situating them in broader currents of modern European literature and zeroing in on the qualities

NEW review by Julian Levinson: Making and Unmaking Literature in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna Ghettos, by Sven-Erik Rose 🦚

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a gut yontif from all of us here at in geveb 🦚

a gut yontif from all of us here at in geveb 🦚

Teaching and Commemorating the History of the Ghetto Through Digital Mapping | In geveb “Lviv Ghetto: Space and Everyday Life” is a digital project that marks the locations of everyday life in the ghetto.

NEW in Pedagogy: Teaching and Commemorating the History of the Ghetto Through Digital Mapping, by Vladyslava Moskalets

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Yiddish Writing in the Twenty-First Century: A Conversation with Velvl Chernin | In geveb A conversation with the compiler and editor of the new Leksikon fun der haynttsaytiker yidisher literatur.

NEW interview: a conversation between Velvl Chernin and Ekaterina Kuznetsova on Yiddish Writing in the Twenty-First Century 🦚

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איציקל דער גאָלדקלאַפּער | Itzikl, der Goldklaper | In geveb A story by Meir Kucinski about goldklapers, itinerant gold-buying peddlers in Brazil, collaboratively translated by the members of the São Paolo–based Yidishe T

איציקל דער גאָלדקלאַפּער

"tzikl, der Goldklaper", by Meir Kucinski
Translation by Ernesto Mifano Honigsberg, Lilian Starobinas, Rafael Righetto and Vasco Moscovici

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Peer-to-Peer Pedagogy: Reflections from a College Campus | In geveb For there to be a Yiddish-speaking community at Oberlin, someone needed to teach the community Yiddish. It seemed that that someone, despite my inexperience and

NEW: Peer-to-Peer Pedagogy: Reflections from a College Campus by Andy Roshal 🦚

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Peer-to-Peer Pedagogy: Reflections from a College Campus | In geveb For there to be a Yiddish-speaking community at Oberlin, someone needed to teach the community Yiddish. It seemed that that someone, despite my inexperience and

NEW: Peer-to-Peer Pedagogy: Reflections from a College Campus by Andy Roshal 🦚

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Review of Letters from the Afterlife: The Post-Holocaust Correspondence of Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson. Edited by Goldie Morgentaler. | In geveb The letters collected here document the women’s profound struggles with survivors’ guilt, immigration, and cultural during the postwar years.

"Letters from the Afterlife: The Post-Holocaust Correspondence of Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson," reviewed by Alexis Peri

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Sculpting Memory in the Work of Zenia Marcinkowska Larsson: A Swedish Holocaust Writer and Friend of Chava Rosenfarb | In geveb Zenia Marcinkowska Larsson, who died in 2007, left behind a rich literary and artistic legacy which, now that it has been brought back into view, proves capable

new on the blog: "Sculpting Memory in the Work of Zenia Marcinkowska Larsson: A Swedish Holocaust Writer and Friend of Chava Rosenfarb" by Ulla Urszula Chowaniec

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An American Yiddishist In Paris: A Semester Abroad in Yiddishland | In geveb Reporting from Yiddishland: reflections of a student at the Paris Yiddish Center-Medem Library's immersion program.

"An American Yiddishist In Paris: A Semester Abroad in Yiddishland" by Misha Éanna Schaffner-Kargman. New in Pedagogy 🦚

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Review of Henry H. Sapoznik, The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City | In geveb Drawing on his own passion, his background as chronicler of Yiddish song, and his deep research in thousands of newspapers, biographical materials, and many lit

Henry H. Sapoznik's "The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City," reviewed by Daniel J. Walkowitz

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Activism Despite Chaos: A review of Eli Gumener‘s A Ukrainian Chapter: A Jewish Aid Worker’s Memoir of Sorrow (Podolia, 1918–20) | In geveb In geveb is an open-access digital forum for the publication of peer-reviewed academic articles, the translation and annotation of Yiddish texts, the exchange of pedagogical materials, and a blog of…

Activism Despite Chaos: A review of Eli Gumener‘s A Ukrainian Chapter: A Jewish Aid Worker’s Memoir of Sorrow (Podolia, 1918–20), by Vladyslava Moskalets

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Ready for some fun af der zun? 2026 is the year of the leyener, and In geveb is proud to gather the programs that allow you to do everything from dusting off your conversational Yiddish to parsing Yiddish texts:
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deadline is today!

A Roundup of Yiddish Culture/Klezmer Festivals and Series | In geveb A roundup of new and continuing Yiddish culture and klezmer festivals and series around the world.

A Roundup of Yiddish Culture/Klezmer Festivals and Series, shared with us by Sarah Biskowitz:

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Thank you!

A Roundup of Yiddish Culture/Klezmer Festivals and Series | In geveb A roundup of new and continuing Yiddish culture and klezmer festivals and series around the world.

A Roundup of Yiddish Culture/Klezmer Festivals and Series, shared with us by Sarah Biskowitz:

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deadline is today!

Ready for some fun af der zun? 2026 is the year of the leyener, and In geveb is proud to gather the programs that allow you to do everything from dusting off your conversational Yiddish to parsing Yiddish texts:
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The Latest in Yiddish Studies in English: 2025 | In geveb The latest installment of our annual effort to gather together the latest publications relevant to Yiddish Studies in English.

the latest in Yiddish Studies in English: 2025 edition

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דער װלאָצלאַװקער זייפֿנזידער און דער מעזריטשער זייגערמאַכער | The Włocławek Soap Maker and the Międzyrzec Watchmaker | In geveb In a fictionalized account of his experiences during World War II, Duvid Tsudek Zakalik writes of Purim 1941 in a Soviet labor camp.

A more serious translation as we say goodbye to Purim: The Włocławek Soap Maker and the Międzyrzec Watchmaker, by Duvid Tsudek Zakalik. Translation by David L. Zakalik

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