Interviews

Interview

Seeking and Queering Utopia: A Chat About the Steiner Summer Yiddish Program

Queer­ness, reli­gion, and the oth­er in the Yid­dish Book Cen­ter’s Stein­er Sum­mer Yid­dish Program

Interview

Remedy Before the Sickness: Eli Rosen on Translating Rhinoceros into Yiddish

Tova Ben­jamin talks with Eli Rosen, trans­la­tor of Rhi­noc­er­os, about fas­cism, Tal­mu­dic trac­tates, Yid­dish flu­en­cy, and going OTD.

Interview

Art Against Fascism: Joshua Sobol on the Radical Possibilities of Yiddish Theater

Joshua Sobol speaks to Rachelle Gross­man about resis­tance through art and the future pos­si­bil­i­ties of Yid­dish theater. 

Interview

Imagining a Dictionary for Solidarity: A Conversation with Artist Yevgeniy Fiks on Russian, Yiddish, and Transnational Queer Dialects

Anna Ele­na Tor­res talks with Yev­geniy Fiks about Inter­na­tion­al­ism, queer pol­i­tics, utopias and imag­i­nary map­ping, and Sovi­et Yiddish.

Interview

Diaspora Nationalism, Yiddish Contradiction: a conversation with Max Sparber

Max Spar­ber talks Wikipedia, open sourc­ing, exile, and con­tem­po­rary white nation­al­ism in the con­text of the diaspora

Interview

An Interview with Boris Sandler

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. 

Interview

The Gefilte Manifesto

An inter­view with the authors of the new cook­book, The Gefilte Man­i­festo: New Recipes for Old World Jew­ish Foods.

Interview

Sholem Aleichem's Digital Turn

An inter­view with Jere­my Dauber about the new web­site Shole​mAle​ichem​.org

Interview

Spectacular Vernacular: An Interview with Ezra Berkley Nepon on New Yiddish Theater, Queer Performance Arts, and “Dazzle Camouflage”

On the beau­ti­ful, rad­i­cal, acces­si­ble, pos­si­bil­i­ties of per­for­mance and Yiddish. 

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