Build­ing on this suc­cess, we are now pub­lish­ing a call for a sec­ond cohort of fel­lows. The goal, again, is to encour­age and fund schol­ars to work with the col­lec­tion — to bring the archive off the shelf and into the class­room and beyond. 🦚

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The first cohort of fel­lows result­ed in five suc­cess­ful projects rang­ing from tra­di­tion­al research and the cre­ation of ped­a­gog­i­cal mate­ri­als for using Yid­dish tes­ti­mo­ny in the class­room to musi­cal per­for­mance and artis­tic works.

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Joanna Spyra and Lea Kalisch in conversation, NEW on the In geveb blog 🦚

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"This inter­view delves into the intense and vul­ner­a­ble process behind Lea’s first-ever film.... how Yid­dish lan­guage ani­mates the story’s tex­ture, the dif­fi­cult cre­ative choic­es Lea made along the way, and how stub­born vision fueled the entire project."

"...Immune to the “vast mechan­i­cal appa­ra­tus of enchant­ment” that was Fordist man­u­fac­tur­ing, Opatoshu’s account...[made] the read­er con­stant­ly aware of the human pres­ence – and human suf­fer­ing – of the workers."

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"Opatoshu made his own pere­gri­na­tion to Detroit in the spring of 1929 and penned “In Ford’s Fac­to­ry” (Bay Fordn in fab­rik) which appeared in Der Tog and, with minor changes, in Warsaw’s Naye folk­st­say­tung, on May 17, 1929..."

there’s still time! 🦚