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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.

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Voices from Black Lives Matter Protests: קולות פֿון בלעק לײַװס מעטער פּראָטעסטן

Bilin­gual reflec­tions com­piled by Zackary Sholem Berg­er and authored by Berg­er, Sara Feld­man, and Antho­ny Rus­sell, Jew­ish activists who took part in recent Black Lives Mat­ter protests.

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Hasidic Songs about Coronavirus: A Wonderful Voice of Renewal / חסידישע קאראנע-לידער א וואונדערליכע שטימע פון חידוש

The phe­nom­e­non of Coro­na songs in the frum world shows us that some­thing quite new is hap­pen­ing with regard to Hasidic music.

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Yiddish Podcasts in Conversation: Vaybertaytsh and Dos Yidishe Kol

The hosts of two beloved Yid­dish pod­casts chat about how they came to cre­ate their pro­grams, with a bilin­gual transcript.

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Samderin un Shisbezem: An Interview with Harry Potter Translator Arele Viswanath

Arele Viswanath shares the chal­lenges and inno­va­tions of trans­lat­ing Har­ry Pot­ter into Yiddish.

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Family Photos: A Yiddishist Looks at Mischpoche

What Andreas Mühe’s Mis­ch­poche beck­ons is a Yid­dish kvetsh—some­one to squeeze the term, pinch and press it, artic­u­late where the stress should fall.

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Yiddish and Berlin: A complex yet fruitful relationship?

The con­tin­u­ing rel­e­vance of Yid­dish in Berlin high­lights Yid­dish not only as a means of com­mu­ni­ca­tion but as a sym­bol of cul­tur­al and polit­i­cal resistance.

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Yidishkayt and the American Right: Jewish Safety and the Limits of Political Imagination in The Last Yiddish Speaker

I bad­ly want­ed The Last Yid­dish Speak­er to be an Amer­i­can Jew­ish med­i­ta­tion on Amer­i­can Jew­ish safe­ty that used Yid­dish to pull our polit­i­cal imag­i­na­tions toward new horizons.

Interview

"I'd like to think that it's all my canvas" - an interview with Alex Weiser

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.

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