Interviews

Ayelet Brinn discusses Professors Gennady Estraikh’s and Mikhail Krutikov’s long-running series, Studies in Yiddish, for Legenda, and the changes they’ve seen in academic publishing and Yiddish studies over the course of the past twenty years.

Mar 23, 2021

Yael Horowitz and Ira Khonen Temple talk queer Yiddishkayt, collage, and masoyre in Temple’s new album.

Feb 02, 2021

An interview with translator Ellen Cassedy about her two translations of Yiddish children’s poetry into English: a collection of prewar children’s poems for a book called “Yiddish Zoo” and a collection of Boris Sandler’s “Good Morning” poems for children.

Nov 16, 2020

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

Marina Mayorski talks with Sarah Bunin Benor about her work recording, preserving, and teaching about Jewish languages.

Jun 12, 2020

Tova Benjamin, Lyubov Lavrova, and Olga Vinogradova discuss Yiddish in Moscow, including the Jewish Museum in Moscow, organizing a leyen krayz, and contemporary Yiddish culture in Moscow.

Apr 13, 2020

This piece is offers a broad portrait of the state of Yiddish Studies in China today, including its role in the small but growing field of Jewish Studies in China.

Mar 17, 2020