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Interview
A Meeting Place for Two Worlds: An Interview with Piotr Nazaruk and Lublin’s Grodzka Gate Center
Magdalena Kozłowska
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
Interview
Confessions of a Yiddish Writer and Other Essays: An Interview with Goldie Morgentaler
Matthew Johnson and Corbin Allardice
Matthew Johnson and Corbin Allardice talk with Goldie Morgentaler, Chava Rosenfarb’s daughter and editor and translator of a recently published collection of Rosenfarb’s essays.
Jan 27, 2020
Interview
Memorializing the Holocaust in Electronic Music: An Interview with Francisco Dean
Jo Sabath
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
Blog
Translating the Holocaust
Jonah S. Boyarin
Jonah Boyarin explores the process of his translation of Mordkhe Wolfshaut-Dinkes’s holocaust memoir, Checkmate: The Miracle of My Life.
May 14, 2019
Blog
Speaking of Sutzkever: On Yiddish in Scandinavia
Jan Schwarz
New research and translation of Avrom Sutzkever’s work leads to a multilingual, multinational convening of Yiddishists in Copenhagen, Denmark and in Lund, Sweden.
Jun 28, 2018
Interview
Art Against Fascism: Joshua Sobol on the Radical Possibilities of Yiddish Theater
Rachelle Grossman
Joshua Sobol speaks to Rachelle Grossman about resistance through art and the future possibilities of Yiddish theater.
May 12, 2017
Interview
Yiddish on Transparent: A Talk with Jill Soloway and Micah Fitzerman-Blue
Diana Clarke and Saul Noam Zaritt
Jill Soloway and Micah Fitzerman-Blue on writing Transparent in Yiddish, whether or not you noticed.
Mar 01, 2016
Interview
Anti-fascist Yiddish Song: Shneer and Eisenberg on Lin Jaldati
Erin Faigin
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
Interview
Ironic Inversions: Rare Soviet Yiddish Songs of WWII
Hannah Pollin-Galay
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