Interviews
Interview
In Search of “Berlin Grandfathers”: An Interview with Arndt Beck and Ella Ponizovsky-Bergelson
Ekaterina Kuznetsova
Ekaterina Kuznetsova interviews artists Arndt Beck and Ella Ponizovsky-Bergelson about their recent exhibition of Yiddish-related works in Berlin, “Di farbloyte feder | Berliner zeydes.”
Dec 12, 2019
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Memorializing the Holocaust in Electronic Music: An Interview with Francisco Dean
Jo Sabath
Jo Sabath talks with Francisco Dean about Dean’s Frilingdik Umbazigt: As the Spring Unconquered, an electronic music piece memorializing the Holocaust that he composed and directed with high school student musicians at the Chicago Laboratory School.
Oct 17, 2019
Interview
Communicating Jewish History in Poland Today
Madeleine Cohen
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews was decades in the making and now tells the thousand year history of Polish Jews in the old heart of Jewish Warsaw.
Jan 16, 2019
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Sitra Achra: Shterna Goldbloom on the Ones Who Don't Follow
Diana Clarke
Shterna Goldbloom discusses photography, community, and memory. Her saturated, colorful work centers the liminal places where the holy and the marginal come together.
Mar 19, 2018
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Yiddish Linguistics and Digital Humanities: A Conversation with Michelle Chesner about the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazi Jewry
Jessica Kirzane
Feb 12, 2018
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Seeking and Queering Utopia: A Chat About the Steiner Summer Yiddish Program
Noam Green and Tova Benjamin
Queerness, religion, and the other in the Yiddish Book Center’s Steiner Summer Yiddish Program
Nov 24, 2017
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Remedy Before the Sickness: Eli Rosen on Translating Rhinoceros into Yiddish
Tova Benjamin
Tova Benjamin talks with Eli Rosen, translator of Rhinoceros, about fascism, Talmudic tractates, Yiddish fluency, and going OTD.
Sep 20, 2017
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Art Against Fascism: Joshua Sobol on the Radical Possibilities of Yiddish Theater
Rachelle Grossman
Joshua Sobol speaks to Rachelle Grossman about resistance through art and the future possibilities of Yiddish theater.
May 12, 2017
Interview
Imagining a Dictionary for Solidarity: A Conversation with Artist Yevgeniy Fiks on Russian, Yiddish, and Transnational Queer Dialects
Anna Elena Torres
Anna Elena Torres talks with Yevgeniy Fiks about Internationalism, queer politics, utopias and imaginary mapping, and Soviet Yiddish.
Apr 05, 2017
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Diaspora Nationalism, Yiddish Contradiction: a conversation with Max Sparber
Diana Clarke
Max Sparber talks Wikipedia, open sourcing, exile, and contemporary white nationalism in the context of the diaspora
Mar 12, 2017