Interviews
Interview
Linguistic Treasures in the Archive: An Interview with Isaac L. Bleaman on the Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe
The Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe, a digital language archive sourced from Holocaust survivor testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation, is a project funded by a five-year CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation that will serve as a resource for Yiddish linguistics, pedagogy, and language revitalization.
Mar 27, 2025
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Yiddish Trash: An Interview with Saul Noam Zaritt
Shund.org launched in beta mode on August 9, 2023.
Oct 01, 2023
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The Promise and Peril of Digital Research in Yiddish: An Interview with Gerben Zaagsma
Elena Hoffernberg interviews Gerben Zaagsma about his path to studying Yiddish in the Spanish Civil War; the potency and the frustrations of digital research; and the future of digital studies and Yiddish.
Feb 25, 2020
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Inside the Yiddish Folk Song: An Interview with Mark Slobin
Ari Kelman talks with Mark Slobin about Inside the Yiddish Folk Song, a new website project currently under construction, which aims to be an accessible, comprehensive online introduction to the full complexity of the Yiddish folk song tradition.
Feb 14, 2020
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Yiddish Linguistics and Digital Humanities: A Conversation with Michelle Chesner about the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazi Jewry
Feb 12, 2018
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Sholem Aleichem's Digital Turn
An interview with Jeremy Dauber about the new website SholemAleichem.org
Jan 18, 2017