A look at an example of the famed Yiddish new years cards. This one is a “good year ship ticket,” granting the receiver “120 free yearly round-trips for himself and his family.”
Sep 09, 2015
Text & Translation
סיביר
Siberia
Abraham Sutzkever
Translation by Richard J. Fein
Sutzkever’s cycle of poems about his childhood years spent in Siberia: “In the light-dark snowed-under / village of my childhood in Siberia / blossoms bloom from shadows’ eyes— / countless quicksilver blossoms…”
Sep 08, 2015
Blog
How to Build Bridges to People? Benjamin Harshav and Yiddish
Shachar Pinsker
An essay on the late Benjamin Harshav, one of the most important literary scholars of the last decades, and how in his work Yiddish served as a bridge between Europe, Israel, and North America, between poetry, translation, and scholarship.
Aug 26, 2015
Blog
Join In geveb’s Editorial Team: Seeking a Copy Editor
We are seeking a talented individual to join In geveb’s core editorial team as a copy editor.
Sep 09, 2015
In geveb, אין געוועב, 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 Yiddish cultural life.