of the intimately personal, the abstractly global, and then every ring of communal attachment in between. If she were alive now, she'd be in the streets every day, protesting injustice and protecting her neighborhood, that ever-expanding thing. 2/2
Activist and writer Grace Paley speaking to reporters. (Photo from the Jewish Women's Archive)
Join me in reading Paley, thinking with her, over four online classes, starting on Thursday, February 26. Registration link below. Use the code PALEY40 for a discount!
roundtable.org/live-courses...
I think about Grace Paley a lot these days, especially her insistence on the political urgency 1/2
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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!
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 β¨
If you couldn't join us and still want to wish us a happy birthday, you can do so here:
donorbox.org/tsen-yor
It was a pleasure to host Saul Noam Zaritt at the University of Warsaw!
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WE DID IT! π
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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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 π¦
Give it a listen here: writingit.fireside.fm/64
This winter take a break with Sholem Aleichem and me! Take my course on the Tevye stories at Roundtable with the 92nd street Y.
roundtable.org/live-courses...
Or, as Tevye puts it, βAnd now letβs talk about something more cheerful. Tell me, whatβs the news about the cholera in Odessa?β
Come work with us!
In geveb is seeking a new member of our editorial staff for the 2025-2026 publishing year.
To apply: please submit a cover letter and resume by August 19, 2025 to info@ingeveb.org. Subject line: βmanaging editorβ.
Details here: ingeveb.org/blog/in-geve...
Going to PT regularly
A brilliant review of On Revival is published in In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. Thank you @saulnoamz.bsky.social and @ingeveb.bsky.social
@pennpress.bsky.social
ingeveb.org/articles/yid...
In which I think again about Hebrew and Yiddish, about the living-dead, about the violence of sovereignty and nationalism, and what it might mean to "walk on the wild side," if only that were possibleβall through Roni Henig's fantastic book.
ingeveb.org/articles/yid...
Clip from a Yiddish ad from Lipton's tea that includes an image of a laborer on a Ceylon tea plantation, with a caption that reads "how to pick tea on the Lipton plantations"
I definitely forgot to promote this... but if you're in Chicago and want to hear about Lipton Tea and Yehoyash's bible translation then you should probably come to my talk at 4pm today.
complit.uchicago.edu/saul-zaritt-...
I'm teaching an online class this July, all about the short story and Jewish American writingβa return to some parts of my first book and plenty of fun with Delmore Schwartz, Grace Paley, and Saul Bellow.
(I promise you that Delmore and Grace will win out the day.)
Registration link below...
@americanacademy.bsky.social
Read the full announcement and bios here: www.americanacademy.de/announcing-t...
I am humbled to be among this year's Berlin Prize fellows, joining a wide-ranging group of scholars, writers, and artists (including the yidishist in hiding, Ross Perlin).
The move to Ohio will be delayed to spend the fall on the shores of the Wannsee reading Yiddish trash...
poster for zoom talk on Saul's book A taytsh manifesto, including time and date: may 7, 2025 at 4pm pacific time and 7pm eastern time
The taytsh campaign continues! I'll be giving a zoom talk on Wednesday about the book through the Southern California Workers Circle (Arbeter ring).
Registration link below...
keyn eyn hore, of course
In the midst of all the terror and looming precarity, something to look forward to, professionally and personally: come July 1 I'll be an assistant professor of Yiddish and Ashkenazic Culture at The Ohio State University.
It's been 2 weeks since #Farbindungen25 Bad Yiddish, and we're still thinking about all of the amazing panels and talks! You can now watch the incredible keynote address, by @saulnoamz.bsky.social and Natan M. Meir, available on our YouTube channel!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvhT...
Call for Submissions: Yiddish Science Fiction!!
We invite submissions to a special issue of In geveb on βYiddish Science Fiction" with guest editors Alona Bach, Sebastian Schulman, and Dalia Wolfson.
Submissions are due April 28. See the link for further details.
https://buff.ly/416QaB1
What other social and technological futures have we imagined, feared, hoped forβaf yidish? Help us imagine, remember, and consider alternative possibilities by submitting to @ingeveb.bsky.social 's special issue on #Yiddish #scifi.
Full CFP: ingeveb.org/blog/call-fo...
A picture of Saul Noam Zaritt, with a bio and panel details. Long description linked in the reply.
A picture of Natan M. Meir, with a bio and panel details. Long description linked in the reply.
A picture of Jacqueline Krass, with a bio and panel details. Long description linked in the reply.
Introducing! ΧΧΧ¨ Χ©ΧΧ’ΧΧ Χ€ΦΏΧΦΈΧ¨!
The keynote panel of #Farbindungen25 Bad Yiddish will feature Saul Noam Zaritt and Natan M. Meir, moderated by Jacqueline Krass. Register today, link in bio!
Made a Yiddishist starter pack...let me know if I should add anyone :) go.bsky.app/B3QwrtA
Rachel Grossβs Beyond the Synagogue nyupress.org/978147980338...
"... who are always disappointed in us, though we remain, as ever, devoted to them, comforted by them as Avrom Sutzkever reminds us, when he thanks the dead for not forgetting the living. This is the only comfort, if we are even allowed comfort." [2/2]
ingeveb.org/articles/nam...
"We must not close ranks and presume to heal a private family affair. I submit that we must seek out difference, not mourn it as something to be rendered dead and buried. Taytsh instructs us to sit with the ghosts, who are not and cannot be satisfied,... " [1/2]
We're pleased to present A Taytsh Forum!
We at In geveb have invited a group of Yiddish Studies scholars to offer responses to Saul Noam Zaritt's A Taytsh Manifesto. These responses, as varied and complex as A Taytsh Manifesto itself, are followed by a reply from Zaritt.
https://buff.ly/4h8XfaL
