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Oct 14, 2024 | ingeveb.org | Eli Rubin

Review Review of Glenn Dynner’s The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust CITETHIS Glenn Dynner. The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust. Oxford University Press, 2023. 320 pp. $39.95 Against the fraught intersections of emancipation, acculturation, assimilation, and colonization, institutionalized Torah education emerged as a form of Hasidic cultural resistance powerful enough to survive the Holocaust.

Sep 1, 2024 | ingeveb.org | Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler

Review Review of Warsaw Testament by Rokhl Auerbach, trans. Kassow CITETHIS Warsaw Testament by Rokhl Auerbach, translated by Samuel Kassow (White Goat Press, 2024). 413 pages. $32.95. On July 26th, 1942, Rokhl Auerbach handed what she believed to be her life’s work—collected writings, interviews, and ephemera, from inside the Warsaw Ghetto—to Emmanuel Ringelblum. Liquidation of the ghetto had begun four days earlier.

Apr 16, 2024 | ingeveb.org | Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler

Blog Yiddish and the Jewish Voice in The Zone of Interest CITETHIS Still from The Zone of Inter­est (2023), cour­tesy of A24. A little over an hour into Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, the wind shifts. A Polish woman living a few miles downwind of Auschwitz catches the breeze as it passes through her curtains and into her darkened kitchen.

Apr 14, 2024 | ingeveb.org | Eli Rubin

Texts & Translation "בלי קדיש“ או "דער לעבעדיקער יתום" “Kaddish Denied” or “The Living Orphan” CITETHIS A Sovi­et-era por­trait of the Frierdik­er Rebbe, Rab­bi Yosef Yitzchak Schneer­sohn (1880−1950), clan­des­tine­ly pre­served by Chabad has­sidim in the after­math of his forced depar­ture from the USSR in 1927. Cour­tesy of Rab­bi Sholom Ber Chaikin via Chabad​.org.

Oct 12, 2023 | ingeveb.org | Zackary Sholem Berger |David Forman |Jessica Kirzane |A. Z. Foreman

Texts & Translation New Yiddish Poetry from the Israel-Gaza War CITETHIS Image: ​“Death with a Woman in His Lap”(Tod mit Frau in Schoss, 1921), a wood­cut by Käthe Kollwitz. INTRODUCTION Four months have passed since the Hamas attacks of Octo­ber 7th and the start of the war in Gaza. As edi­tors and schol­ars of Yid­dish Stud­ies, we have been anguished by the dev­as­ta­tion, loss and trau­ma of this con­flict.