Interviews

An interview with Stefanie Halpern, assistant curator of the current exhibition on New York’s Yiddish Theater at the Museum of the City of New York.

Mar 29, 2016

Jamie Elman and Eli Batalion on language politics in Montreal, Jewish comedy, and making pop culture in Yiddish.

Mar 27, 2016

Jill Soloway and Micah Fitzerman-Blue on writing Transparent in Yiddish, whether or not you noticed.

Mar 01, 2016

Lin Jaldati was a secular Dutch Jew who brought Yiddish music to communist East Germany. Now, Jewlia Eisenberg and David Shneer are reviving her music and investigating her revolutionary life.

Feb 28, 2016

Austrian shepherd Hans Breuer on driving refugees across the border, and getting famous for singing Yiddish songs.

Feb 23, 2016

Zisl Slepovitch of the band Litvakus on klezmer, gathering stories, and growing up in Belarus.

Nov 19, 2015

Listen to a contemporary rethinking of Birobidzhan, the longed-for but mostly imaginary Jewish territorial project.

Oct 18, 2015

Daniel Kahn talks about his musical influences, how all of his languages interact with each other in his songs, and what it means to “tradapt” a song across languages and time.

Oct 01, 2015

Refoyl Finkel talks to In geveb about making digitized Yiddish texts searchable.

Sep 06, 2015

At the international symposium “Global Yiddish Culture: 1938-1949,” singer-songwriter Psoy Korolenko and Professor Anna Shternshis brought to life lost Yiddish songs of the Holocaust in an all-new concert and lecture program.

Aug 12, 2015