Authors / Jessica Kirzane
Jessica Kirzane is an assistant instructional professor of Yiddish at the University of Chicago and the editor-in-chief of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. She is the translator of Miriam Karpilove’s Diary of a Lonely Girl, or the Battle against Free Love (Syracuse University Press, 2020).

Fiction
Father of the Whole World
“So it seemed that I was the only man left in the world.”
Elyash January 10, 2020

History
New York’s First-Time Women Voters
A 1918 dispatch from a Yiddish newspaper documents the experiences of women legally voting for the first time.
Miriam Karpilove June 4, 2019

Poetry
Lot’s Wife Speaks
Laura Eve Engel’s debut poetry collection, Things That Go, uses the biblical story to contemplate the act of looking and its ethics in an age of clickable tragedy.
Jessica Kirzane January 2, 2019