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The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign is seeking a candidate to teach Yiddish literature and either Hebrew or another modern literature in a Tenure Track position in Comparative and World Literature. illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/car…
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We're heading off to enjoy a summer publishing break. We’ll be back soon! Thank you for reading, and we look forward to seeing you “in geveb.” ingeveb.org/blog/summer-brea…

Summer Break! | 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...

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Maia Evrona reviews Lisa Richter’s collection of original English-language poetry, Nautilus and Bone; An Auto/biography in Poems. ingeveb.org/articles/review-…

Review of Lisa Richter’s Nautilus and Bone; An Auto/biography in Poems | In geveb

As a reader of Margolin’s poetry in its original Yiddish, and a translator of her work into English, I approached this collection with both interest and skeptic

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Other times, Richter circles Margolin through poetry inspired by her life, and by Richter’s own family history. In some cases, Richter rewrites Margolin’s poetry through homolinguistic, English to English translation."
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"As a reader of Margolin’s poetry in its original Yiddish, and a translator of her work into English, I approached this collection with both interest and skepticism."
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It’s been a busy publishing year for In geveb! As we're about to head off for our summer break, we’re proud to share with you a roundup of the most widely-read pieces In geveb published this year. ingeveb.org/blog/reader-favo…

Reader Favorites 2022-2023 | In geveb

As our publishing year comes to a close, we’re proud to share with you a roundup of the most widely-read pieces In geveb published this year.

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Tanya Yakovleva reflects on her experiences presenting at and attending conferences on Yiddish this past year while the war continues in her home city of Kharkiv. ingeveb.org/pedagogy/diary-o…

Diary of a Yiddish Teacher During Conferences | In geveb

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?

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She writes, "What more can I do for my country, now so badly in need of support, except for teaching the minority languages and Slavic-Jewish literature of Ukraine?"
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Thanks to the brilliant work of translator Rachel Mines and the folks from @ingeveb, you can now read four segments from the novella CHOLERA by Yiddish writer Jonah Rosenfeld (1880–1944): bit.ly/3XmurTf
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Found Treasures: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers (1994) made an undeniable impact on the study of Yiddish literature. A collection of stories translated from Yiddish to English, it was the first anthology of Yiddish women’s prose writing in any language (including Yiddish).
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Julie Sharff has created this Compendium to Found Treasures, a resource with links to each story from the anthology in its original Yiddish. Read about it here: ingeveb.org/pedagogy/compend…

Compendium to Found Treasures | In geveb

The aim of this compendium is to make Yiddish originals for the stories in Found Treasures easily available and to preserve some of the materiality of the edito

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In conjunction with her Compendium to Found Treasures, Julie Sharff interviewed editor Frieda Johles Forman. Read that conversation here: ingeveb.org/blog/we-collecte…

“We Collected Everything”: An Interview with Frieda Johles Forman | In geveb

An interview with a pioneering Yiddish feminist translator.

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"People have to realize who set the stage. Who was it that brought these women to light. You didn’t get them with your breakfast cereal." Julie Sharff interviews Frieda Johles Forman, editor of Found Treasures, about her work and life. ingeveb.org/blog/we-collecte…

“We Collected Everything”: An Interview with Frieda Johles Forman | In geveb

An interview with a pioneering Yiddish feminist translator.

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In conjunction with this interview, Sharff compiled a Compendium to Found Treasures, with links to Yiddish texts that can be read alongside their English translations: ingeveb.org/pedagogy/compend…

Compendium to Found Treasures | In geveb

The aim of this compendium is to make Yiddish originals for the stories in Found Treasures easily available and to preserve some of the materiality of the edito

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"What does it mean, now, to be a young person learning Yiddish in the digital age — the twenty-first-century world?" @YiddishBookCtr alum Tyler Kliem reflects on his experience in the Steiner Summer Yiddish Program. ingeveb.org/blog/2022-steine…

Reflecting and Inflecting Across the Young Yiddish Landscape: The 2022 Steiner Summer Yiddish...

What does it mean, now, to be a young person learning Yiddish in the digital age — the twenty-first-century world?

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In this review essay, William Pimlott discusses Daniel B. Schwartz's Ghet­to: The His­to­ry of a Word and Bryan Cheyette's The Ghet­to: A Very Short Intro­duc­tion. ingeveb.org/articles/back-to…

Back to the Ghetto | In geveb

What might Yiddish studies stand to gain from recent books seeking to contextualize how the meaning and uses of term "ghetto" have changed over centuries?

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He writes: "Ghetto lies somewhere between noun, adjective, affect, and place, its international resonance leans ironically against its nature. Ghettos are now everywhere, escaping their own containment and segregation. Schwartz and Cheyette aim to recapture the traveling term."
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Ossnat Sharon-Pinto reviews Annegret Oehme’s The Knight without Boundaries: Yiddish and German Arthurian Wingalois Adaptations: ingeveb.org/articles/yiddish…

Review of Annegret Oehme's The Knight without Boundaries: Yiddish and German Arthurian Wingalois...

Tracing the retellings of the Wigalois/Viduvilt tradition in Yiddish works across three centuries, Annegret Oehme's recent work offers an example of the value o

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Tracing the retellings of the Wigalois/Viduvilt tradition in Yiddish works across three centuries, Annegret Oehme's recent work offers an example of the value of adaptation theory for Jewish literature and Jewish history.
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Sharon-Pinto explains: "Her discussion articulates the dynamic quality of this literary tradition, as well as its innate reflexivity: many of the creators of this corpus... are shown to be explicitly aware of their participation in a fluid storytelling tradition"
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