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NEW Interview: Jonah Lubin and Raphael Haiff discuss the Boston Dictionary Project

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Nisht keyn kleynikeyt: The League for Yiddish Thrives | In geveb The League for Yiddish is hiring an Executive Director! Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath on the League's mission, its territorialist history, and a job posting.

NEW interview 🦚 Nisht keyn kleynikeyt: The League for Yiddish Thrives

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Just the Two of Us?: A Review of Celia Dropkin's Desires | In geveb Dropkin charts the competing ways of desire—for sex, for a child, for security—that swirled within any woman poised between tradition and modern life in America

NEW review 🦚 Just the Two of Us?: A Review of Celia Dropkin’s Desires by Paula Rabinowitz

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Hasidic Games for Yiddish Learning | In geveb Over the past fifteen years, I have purchased over thirty Hasidic games and tested them out with various groups of Yiddish learners to find ones that work most

NEW in Pedagogy: Hasidic Games for Yiddish Learning 🦚

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Special Issue Call for Submissions: The Yiddish Archive | In geveb We are seeking submissions for In geveb’s peer review, pedagogy, translation, and blog sections from scholars, archivists, special collections librarians, artis

Lessons plans and teaching guides that are meant to teach archival literacy alongside topics in Yiddish language, literature, and culture are also encouraged.

Proposal materials due March 6. Contributors chosen to be part of the issue will be notified by March 23.

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Special Issue Call for Submissions: The Yiddish Archive | In geveb We are seeking submissions for In geveb’s peer review, pedagogy, translation, and blog sections from scholars, archivists, special collections librarians, artis

Special Issue Call for Submissions: The Yiddish Archive 🦚

For our pedagogy section we are interested in reflections on new initiatives that use archival sources as a way to teach Yiddish language, literature, and culture.

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NEW in Pedagogy: "A Repository for All: YIVO’s New Learning and Media Center" by Dinah Megibow-Taylor (one of our fabulous interns!)

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NEW in Pedagogy: "A Repository for All: YIVO’s New Learning and Media Center" by Dinah Megibow-Taylor (one of our fabulous interns!)

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"Men of Valor and Anxiety pays sophisticated attention to the pushes and pulls of masculinity: it narrates neither a world in which a man simply goes out and puts together whatever kind of gender he wants, nor a world where there is a single, fixed masculinity without deviations."

cover of Mariusz Kalczewiak. Men of Valor and Anxiety: Polish-Jewish Masculnities and the Challenge of Modernity. Indiana University Press, 2025. 428 pp. $50.00 [paperback].

NEW: Men of Valor and Anxiety: Polish-Jewish Masculinities and the Challenge of Modernity by Mariusz Kalczewiak, reviewed by Sarah Imhoff

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Happiest Anniversary to @ingeveb.bsky.social!! 10 years is amazing!

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having a blast sending out our gorgeous @busybeaverbuttonco.bsky.social-designed Tsen Yor stickers to our campaign donors. Stay tuned for future opportunities to snag yours 🦚

Briv funem arkhiv: “Fun Hitler-land” | In geveb I not only found “Fun Hitler-land” interesting from a historical perspective—I also found it compelling as a student of Yiddish. The text tested my linguistic a

NEW on the blog 🦚

Briv funem arkhiv: “Fun Hitler-land”

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On fliterlekh, Without Sequins: A Review of The Mother of Yiddish Theatre | In geveb Ester-Rokhl Kaminska picks blackberries better than anyone else. When she lights Shabbos candlesticks, they shine brighter than any other Shabbos candlesticks.

NEW: The Mother of Yiddish Theatre: Memoirs of Ester-Rokhl Kaminska, translated by Mikhl Yashinsky and reviewed by Ruby Zuckerman

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Briv funem arkhiv: “Fun Hitler-land” | In geveb I not only found “Fun Hitler-land” interesting from a historical perspective—I also found it compelling as a student of Yiddish. The text tested my linguistic a

NEW on the blog 🦚

Briv funem arkhiv: “Fun Hitler-land”

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“This memoir unveils a subjectivity that oscillates between extreme self-confidence[…] and devastating loneliness, emotional isolation, and the inability to connect on an intimate level with those around her.”

Excellent review of an important new memoir translation.

@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

On fliterlekh, Without Sequins: A Review of The Mother of Yiddish Theatre | In geveb Ester-Rokhl Kaminska picks blackberries better than anyone else. When she lights Shabbos candlesticks, they shine brighter than any other Shabbos candlesticks.

NEW: The Mother of Yiddish Theatre: Memoirs of Ester-Rokhl Kaminska, translated by Mikhl Yashinsky and reviewed by Ruby Zuckerman

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"Socialist Yiddishlands sets the stage for what could be a shift in how scholars think about the relationships among Yiddish, the Cold War, the effects (...) on Jews, the Soviet Bloc countries, and the lived realities of those who actively participated in the development of state socialism" 🥰

Review of Socialist Yiddishlands: Language Politics and Transnational Entanglements between 1941 and 1991, edited by Miriam Chorley-Schulz and Alexander Walther | In geveb Socialist Yiddishlands sets the stage for what could be a shift in how scholars think about the relationships among Yiddish, the Cold War, the effects of the Co

NEW: Socialist Yiddishlands: Language Politics and Transnational Entanglements between 1941 and 1991, edited by Miriam Chorley-Schulz and Alexander Walther--reviewed by Nick Underwood

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Call for Proposals: In geveb/Fortunoff Archive Fellowship 2025 | In geveb The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University is collaborating with In geveb to encourage and fund scholars to work with the collecti

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Please submit your proposals to ingeveb@gmail.com with the subject heading “Fortunoff Submission 2026.”

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Call for Proposals: In geveb/Fortunoff Archive Fellowship 2025 | In geveb The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University is collaborating with In geveb to encourage and fund scholars to work with the collecti

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Please submit your proposals to ingeveb@gmail.com with the subject heading “Fortunoff Submission 2026.”

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Scientific project assistant postdoc Scientific project assistant postdoc

We are pleased to share two open positions for Yiddish-related work:

1. 6 year postdoc position at the University of Vienna:

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2. League for Yiddish Executive Director position: www.instagram.com/p/DSicJMrD6r...

an image of a golden-tinted peacock standing behind number balloons that read "2026"; underneath, the phrase "a gut yor!" (a good year)

First and foremost: thank you for an incredible year. While 5786 has just begun, 2025 is drawing to a rapid close, and so are our tsen yor celebrations.

We wanted to wish you a warm start to 2026, and share our ten-year anniversary fundraising campaign one last time.

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Tsen Yor: Celebrating In geveb's 10 Year Anniversary | In geveb (Powered by Donorbox) Join us in celebrating In geveb’s 10 year anniversary and help us launch our second decade with a donation to this campaign in honor of four people who have played key roles in making In geveb what…

We are immeasurably grateful for everyone who has contributed to ensuring In geveb has another fruitful decade ahead. 🦚

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an image of a golden-tinted peacock standing behind number balloons that read "2026"; underneath, the phrase "a gut yor!" (a good year)

First and foremost: thank you for an incredible year. While 5786 has just begun, 2025 is drawing to a rapid close, and so are our tsen yor celebrations.

We wanted to wish you a warm start to 2026, and share our ten-year anniversary fundraising campaign one last time.

donorbox.org/tsen-yor

Review of Isabel Frey’s Di fliendike pave | In geveb Do not be misled by the humble brown paper packaging: Di fliendike pave is a very ambitious project. Through Di fliendike pave, Isabel Frey shows the world what

NEW: a review of Isabel Frey’s Di fliendike pave, by Adah Hetko

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a table of In geveb tsen yor merch / info about the Yiddish Book Center

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crowded tables at a biergarten filled with AJS attendees and In geveb well-wishers!

We are so grateful for all of our colleagues (and dear friends) who joined us on December 13th to kick off AJS and celebrate ten years with us ✨

If you couldn't join us and still want to wish us a happy birthday, you can do so here:
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a thoughtful review of this challenging album

They're Here: Protest Songs for Palestine | In geveb It would be pleasant for me, as a singer, literary critic, and Yiddishist, to review LIDER MIT PALESTINE apolitically. But that is not possible.

NEW: Review from Lawrence Rosenwald of "LIDER MIT PALESTINE לידער מיט פּאַלעסטינע: New Yiddish Songs of Grief, Fury, and Love"

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A Brief History of Yiddish Dictionaries: Ilan Stavans in Conversation with Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath | In geveb Ilan Stavans and Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath talk Yiddish dictionaries, lexicography, and how the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary came to be.

NEW INTERVIEW 🦚

A Brief History of Yiddish Dictionaries: Ilan Stavans in Conversation with Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath

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