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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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January 22, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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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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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].
January 20, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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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 🦚
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January 15, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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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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an image of a golden-tinted peacock standing behind number balloons that read "2026"; underneath, the phrase "a gut yor!" (a good year)
December 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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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:
donorbox.org/tsen-yor
three smiling women, one of whom is wearing a dress patterned with In geveb's letters motif a table of In geveb tsen yor merch / info about the Yiddish Book Center in geveb pencils! crowded tables at a biergarten filled with AJS attendees and In geveb well-wishers!
December 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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NEW blog post (and a new, associated translation!) 🦚

In a fartsaytishn Poyln / The Search for Jacob Morgenstern by Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren

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Cover of an original Simkhe Plakhte, or The World Swindler chapbook, printed on onion skin, from the Hebraic Section of the Library of Congress’s African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED) An illustration by Bridget Starr Taylor for Chapter 6 of Reb Simkhe Plakhte or The World Swindler, originally published on jacobmorgenstern.com.
December 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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WE DID IT! 🎉

A sheynem dank to all of you who helped us to raise $20,000 (and counting!) in honor of In geveb's tsen yor anniversary. We are so, so honored by your support and engagement in the community that makes up In geveb: readers, writers, editors, board members, and supporters.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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"Occupations Past and Present is a visual literacy curriculum drawing on Mayer Kirshenblatt’s images of eastern European Jewish life to teach... grade school audiences how to relate to, ask questions of, and learn from images"

If you use this resource in your classroom, please let us know!
the cover of Occupations Past and Present: A Visual Literacy Curriculum Kit by Deborah Berman, which features a painting of a woman holding a basket and wearing a red kerchief tied around her head
December 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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We were thrilled to join the Writing It! team at the University of Florida's Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies to chat about the process of starting a journal 🦚

Give it a listen here: writingit.fireside.fm/64
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December 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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We know your feeds are inundated with asks today, so we’ll keep it short and sweet: if In geveb has changed the way you engage with modern Yiddish culture, or deepened your connection to the Yiddish Studies community, please consider making a donation 🦚

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December 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Join us to celebrate tsen yor in D.C.! We are celebrating our 10th birthday with a party moytse Shabes (Saturday evening) before the Association for Jewish Studies conference in Washington, DC on December 13th, 2026.

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November 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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"Displays of Belonging: Polish Jewish Collecting and Museums, 1891-1941" by Sarah Ellen Zarrow (our peer review editor!), reviewed by Elena Hoffenberg (a former peer review associate!), new on the blog! 🦚

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Sarah Ellen Zarrow. Dis­plays of Belong­ing: Pol­ish Jew­ish Col­lect­ing and Muse­ums, 1891 – 1941. Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty Press, 2025. 294 pp. $54.95
November 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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NEW in translation: "A Picture Speaks: A Page From a Diary" by H. Leivick; translated by Bluma Lange.

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Jew­ish writ­ers on the occa­sion of a vis­it by Yid­dish writer H. Leivick (front row, cen­ter), Moscow, 1925. Among those in the por­trait are Izi Kharik and Zelik Aksel­rod (back row, first and third from left), Yehezkl Dobrushin, Borekh Glaz­man (also vis­it­ing from New York), Shmuel-Nisn Godin­er, and Arn Kush­nirov (front row, first, sec­ond, fourth, and fifth from left). Pho­to by B. Kapustin­skii. Item and cap­tion cour­tesy of YIVO.
November 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Sarah Bunin Benor reviews Ross Perlin's LANGUAGE CITY:

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Ross Per­lin. Lan­guage City: The Fight to Pre­serve Endan­gered Moth­er Tongues in New York. Grove Press, 2025. 432 pp. $20.00.
October 31, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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"I don't know where I'd be without In geveb."

support our continued development of early-career scholars and Yiddish enthusiasts--contribute to our Tsen Yor campaign today! 🦚

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""I don't know where I'd be without In geveb. This journal has given me incredible opportunities for exposure and publication, especially given that I am a junior scholar with naught but a bachelors' degree in History and a great deal of enthusiasm. What's even more incredible is that In geveb's whole team is dedicated to fostering not only intellectual curiosity but professional stability and mutual respect--I can't say I've ever heard of another journal paying contributors as a matter of policy. When I work with In geveb I know that I'm going to be taken seriously despite my inexperience; that I'll be treated respectfully and with patience. Biz hundert un tsvantsik, In geveb!" -Nadav Pais-Greenapple"
October 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS 🦚

In 2023, the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies joined forces with In geveb to pro­vide a series of grants to schol­ars and artists to work with Yid­dish mate­ri­als in the archive’s col­lec­tion.

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green text that says "call for proposals:" with a white background; below, a clip of an art piece including an open book with Yiddish writing visible on the first few pages
October 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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"I first heard of Lea Kalisch through that ever-reli­able net­work known as Jewish/Yiddish Geog­ra­phy... A friend from Switzer­land sent me a link to her music video “Eshet Chay­il of Hip Hop,” where Lea raps, sings, and con­fi­dent­ly sports a shtrayml..."

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The theatrical poster for Un Tango Para Rachel
October 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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NEW: An Interview with Stefanie Halpern about YIVO’s New Centennial Coffee Table Book 🦚

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the cover of 100 Objects From the Collections of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
October 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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"Opatoshu made his own pere­gri­na­tion to Detroit in the spring of 1929 and penned “In Ford’s Fac­to­ry” (Bay Fordn in fab­rik) which appeared in Der Tog and, with minor changes, in Warsaw’s Naye folk­st­say­tung, on May 17, 1929..."
Ford Plant, Dear­born, Michi­gan, ca. 1930 – 1945, pub­lished by Tich­nor Broth­ers. Image cour­tesy of Wiki­me­dia Com­mons, Boston Pub­lic Library, Tich­nor Broth­ers Col­lec­tion.
October 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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NEW translation: "In Ford's Factory" by Joseph Opatoshu, translated by Nadav Pais-Greenapple.

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Criss-Crossed Con­vey­ors, Riv­er Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Com­pa­ny, 1927, by Charles Sheel­er. Image cour­tesy of Wiki­me­dia Com­mons, MoMA Lane Collection.
October 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Ready to show your love for In geveb as we cruise into our second decade? NEW tsen yor designs are available via our Redbubble shop--linked below! 🦚

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October 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Our first book review of the year is now LIVE!

Daniel Soyer reviews "East End Jews," a new anthology in translation from editors Vivi Lachs and Barry Smerin and Wayne State University Press.

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the cover of EAST END JEWS: SKETCHES FROM THE LONDON YIDDISH PRESS translated by Vivi Lachs and Barry Smerin
October 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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-Reflections about your experiences contributing to In geveb (What led you to contribute? What was the editing process like? etc.)
-Discussions of your time working with us as an editor, intern, volunteer, etc.
-Creative pieces inspired by something you read in In geveb
-and more!
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October 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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We’re back! 🦚

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A green and gold graphic with the text “Welcome Back!” and the image of a sukkah. Our golden peacock mascot is inside the sukkah, with a lulav and an etrog.
October 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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"The prayers drone on, the wailing grows,
The awesome speech shudders on tongues,
Like shaking trees in old cemeteries…”

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IMAGE: Zyg­munt Menkes (b. Lem­berg, Aus­tro-Hun­gar­i­an Empire, now Lviv, Ukraine, 1896 – d. Bronx, New York, 1986), Cohan­im Bless­ing, ca. 1940s.
October 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM