Interviews
Interview
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
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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
Interview
An Interview with Boris Sandler
Sarah Ponichtera
The longtime editor of the Yiddish Forverts and author of fourteen books spoke with Sarah Ponichtera about growing up in Soviet Moldavia, being an immigrant, and reading.
Mar 06, 2017
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How to Shoot an Impossible Movie: An Interview with Menashe Lustig and Joshua Z Weinstein at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival
Raphael Koenig
An interview with the director and lead actor of the new Yiddish film, Menashe.
Feb 27, 2017
Interview
The Gefilte Manifesto
Madeleine Cohen
An interview with the authors of the new cookbook, The Gefilte Manifesto: New Recipes for Old World Jewish Foods.
Feb 23, 2017
Interview
Sholem Aleichem's Digital Turn
Madeleine Cohen and Diana Clarke
An interview with Jeremy Dauber about the new website SholemAleichem.org
Jan 18, 2017
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Spectacular Vernacular: An Interview with Ezra Berkley Nepon on New Yiddish Theater, Queer Performance Arts, and “Dazzle Camouflage”
Anna Elena Torres
On the beautiful, radical, accessible, possibilities of performance and Yiddish.
Nov 15, 2016
Interview
“Conversion through language”: Mo Pareles on Yiddish, Old English, and the Temporal Other
Sarah Ellen Zarrow
A medievalist uses Yiddish in her scriptural scholarship.
Nov 10, 2016