Interviews

Meaghan Guterman speaks with D. Zisl Slepovich about his powerful collection of albums based on songs from Holocaust survivor testimonies held at the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University.

Jun 04, 2025

Drawing from a kaleidoscopic range of sources in his work, Weiser engages in vibrant dialogue with voices from the past while building innovative sonic worlds for contemporary audiences.

Jan 13, 2025

Mariposas Galácticas [Galactic Butterflies] is an eight-piece band from Philadelphia that performs a fusion of kumbia [folk music from Latin America], punk, and klezmer music.

Dec 10, 2024

“Di Froyen,” the debut EP by Katherine Bulthius, performing under the moniker Olke, sets to music the first three poems in Kadya Molodowsky’s cycle of the same name.

Apr 05, 2023

ZETS! is the second album of the Melbourne-based band, YID!

Dec 14, 2022

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

Feb 02, 2021

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

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

Maranne Windsperger interviews punkfolk artist Daniel Kahn about his approaches to transadaptation and translation.

Dec 16, 2019

Jo Sabath talks with Francisco Dean about Dean’s Frilingdik Umbazigt: As the Spring Unconquered, an electronic music piece memorializing the Holocaust that he composed and directed with high school student musicians at the Chicago Laboratory School.

Oct 17, 2019