Behind the Scenes of a Digital Journal — In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies

Behind the Scenes of a Digital Journal: In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies
Jessica Kirzane, editor-in-chief
Thursday, April 20 | 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.

In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies is an open-access digital peer reviewed journal, journal of literary translation, forum for pedagogy, and culture blog for the field of Yiddish Studies, broadly construed. The journal began publication in 2015, under the direction of an editorial staff and board largely consisting of graduate students who were passionate about creating accessible scholarship, expanding the boundaries of Yiddish Studies, connecting and strengthening the field, presenting public scholarship and playful informal writing alongside ‘serious’ academic work, and paying editors and writers for their labor. With little experience in the nuts and bolts of publishing, they created work processes on an ad hoc basis, fueled with giddy enthusiasm and a desire to say ‘yes’ to as many different ideas for the journal as possible in order to grow it in many different directions to serve its readership – many of whom who were or would become contributors. Jessica Kirzane, who served as pedagogy editor of the journal in 2016-2018 and has been editor-in-chief of the journal since 2018, will give an overview of the publication and then pull back the curtain on practical aspects of how the journal is run, from soliciting and reviewing submissions to editing and publishing pieces, to social media presence.