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So You Know Where to Find Us: A Guide to Yiddish and In geveb at the 2025 AJS Conference

Dinah Megibow-Taylor

Your go-to guide for Yiddish at the AJS!

Interview

A Brief History of Yiddish Dictionaries: Ilan Stavans in Conversation with Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath

Ilan Stavans and Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath

Ilan Stavans and Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath talk Yiddish dictionaries, lexicography, and how the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary came to be.

Texts & Translation

Yankev Morgenshtern

Itzik Manger

Translation by Lazer Lederhendler

Manger memorializes the popular writer Yankev Morgenshtern (Jacob Morgenstern) in a fanciful biographical portrait.

Pedagogy

Scientific Literature in the Yiddish Classroom: A Lesson Based on a Page from a Chemistry Textbook

Shlomo Groman

Working with authentic material from Yiddish scientific and technical textbooks enables teachers to sharpen students’ grammatical and lexical awareness and to highlight how Yiddish functioned beyond its traditional literary boundaries.

Interview

An Interview with the Editors of Iberzets

Jowita Pańczyk, Evgenia Batsevitsky, Ilana Goldberg, Abigail Morris-Reich and Mika Cohen

Texts & Translation

A Picture Speaks: A Page From a Diary

H. Leivick

Translation by Bluma Lange

H. Leivick attempts to trace the elusive figure of a childhood friend in this short sketch.

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