Interviews

Oct 24, 2022

In this con­ver­sa­tion the Yid­dish trans­la­tor John Karls­son from Swe­den dis­cuss­es his most recent project, a trans­la­tion of Yosl Bir­shteyn sto­ries into Swedish.

Apr 25, 2022

Arele Viswanath shares the chal­lenges and inno­va­tions of trans­lat­ing Har­ry Pot­ter into Yiddish.

Feb 16, 2022

Ned Katz’s sen­si­tive new biog­ra­phy of Eve Adams high­g­lights the chal­lenges faced by LGBTQ peo­ple in ear­ly 20^th-cen­tu­ry Amer­i­ca and rais­es lin­ger­ing ques­tions about the role that Judaism and the Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ty played in Adams’ life. In response, Noam Sien­na asks some ques­tions that per­haps only Adams could answer.

Dec 13, 2021

Kinder-loshn​’s mis­sion is to make great clas­sic works of Yid­dish children’s lit­er­a­ture avail­able to read­ers in both Yid­dish and Eng­lish and to pub­lish new Yid­dish children’s books and trans­la­tions of oth­er works into Yid­dish and English.

Dec 02, 2021

Rhona Sei­del­man inter­views the researchers of the Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege Lon­don Con­tem­po­rary Hasidic Yid­dish Project about their pub­lic health trans­la­tion work dur­ing the ear­ly stages of COVID-19 pandemic.

Jun 06, 2021

Faith Hillis inter­views Vien­na-based musi­cian and activist Isabel Frey about her lat­est album, Mil­len­ni­al Bundist; the place of Yid­dish music in con­tem­po­rary left-wing pol­i­tics; and Frey’s cre­ative rewrit­ings of rev­o­lu­tion­ary anthems.

Nov 12, 2020

Mikhl Yashin­sky dis­cuss­es his star­ring role as Bobe Yakhne in the Folks­bi­ene pro­duc­tion of The Sor­cer­ess, fea­tur­ing an In geveb first — a Yid­dish drag per­for­mance record­ed just for our lucky readers!

Oct 29, 2020

Mag­dale­na Kozłows­ka inter­views Piotr Nazaruk about Lublin’s Grodz­ka Gate Cen­ter and the cen­ter’s new online exhib­it of mem­o­ry maps from yizkor bikher and oral his­to­ry interviews.

Jul 06, 2020

Mey­er Wein­shel and Asya Vais­man Schul­man speak about devel­op­ing Vais­man Schul­man’s new Yid­dish text­book, In eynem, com­ing from the Yid­dish Book Cen­ter this summer.

Jun 16, 2020