Join us in celebrating In geveb’s 10 year anniversary and help us launch our second decade with a donation to this campaign in honor of four people who have played key roles in making In geveb what it is today:
Eitan Kensky, founding co-editor & first president of In geveb’s board of directors
Saul Noam Zaritt, founding co-editor & first chief editor of In geveb
Madeleine (Mindl) Cohen, former chief editor & current president of In geveb’s board of directors
Jessica Kirzane, In geveb’s chief editor for the past seven years!
We invite you to dedicate your donation to one of our honorees and to leave a comment telling us what you value about In geveb.
We’re turning t(s)en!
Can you believe it: In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies has been publishing for ten years! When we launched our goal was to become
“a central address for the study of all things Yiddish—the focal point for discussions of Yiddish literature, language, and culture, and the home for the next generation of Yiddish scholarship. In geveb, which in Yiddish means 'in web,' will catalyze and renew dialogue between scholars around the world about Yiddish culture, weaving together the voices and texts of Yiddish’s past, present, and future.”
10 years on, we are so proud to say that In geveb has been fulfilling this goal in ways we never could have imagined. While we always aimed to be more than “just” a traditional academic journal, we could only dream of the ways that In geveb would become a community both online and IRL; a publication that brings together students just discovering Yiddish and established scholars in the field; translators and teachers; musicians and activists; readers and experts.
Undzer kehile
Community participation has been the key to In geveb’s success. Close to 400 people have written for In geveb over the past 10 years. Our editorial board has grown larger and more diverse in terms of disciplines represented and the geographic spread of board members. Our early editors have gone from being graduate students to respected professors, scholars, translators, librarians, and professionals in the broad world of Yiddish studies. Hundreds of people have supported In geveb financially and thousands follow our publication by email and social media.
Why We Need Your Support
Now as we celebrate 10 years and dream about what the next 10 years can bring, we need to ask this community to step up and support In geveb financially. We are so grateful to the foundations and individuals that have supported us for the past ten years, you have kept us going. But for much of that time our budget has stayed nearly level. We have focused our limited resources on paying our staff of part time editors and maintaining our website, and have relied on volunteer efforts to fundraise, to maintain our non-profit status, and to go the extra mile to organize events and ensure the high quality of all our content.
If we want In geveb to continue to grow and thrive and remain a central address for the study of all things Yiddish online, we need your help to launch our second decade. Our goal is to raise $20,000 by our official tenth birthday: August 15, 2025.
We invite you to donate to support In geveb and to honor everyone who has got us this far.
Over the coming months we look forward to sharing more here in our updates and on the In geveb blog about all the accomplishments of the past ten years, our hopes and dreams for the future, and why we need financial support from our community to continue our work.