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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.
Interview
Mir zaynen do: A Conversation with Sarah Schulman about Yiddish in Sweden
A conversation about Schulman’s new edited anthology, Jiddisch i Sverige: mir zaynen do.
Jun 02, 2026
Interview
The Boston Dictionary Project: The Balebos of Verterbukh.org
Harry Bochner runs the Yiddish dictionary project verterbukh.org, the most trusted lexicographical Yiddish resource on the web. If you’ve ever emailed [email protected] to purchase 2,000 definitions or apply a student discount, you’ve emailed Harry Bochner.
Feb 04, 2026
Interview
Nisht keyn kleynikeyt: The League for Yiddish Thrives
The League for Yiddish is hiring an Executive Director! Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath on the League’s mission, its territorialist history, and a job posting.
Feb 02, 2026
Interview
A Brief History of Yiddish Dictionaries: Ilan Stavans in Conversation with Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
Ilan Stavans and Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath talk Yiddish dictionaries, lexicography, and how the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary came to be.
Dec 10, 2025
Interview
“Incomplete Mourning”: A conversation with Rokhl Kafrissen
A conversation about Yiddish, theater, the value we place on the past, and the need to grapple with it.
Jun 05, 2025
Interview
"I'm Doing my Best Here!": An Interview with Tomas Woodski on Yiddish Language Activism and Creativity
A wide-ranging conversation about the status of Yiddish in Sweden, creating new Yiddish television, promoting Yiddish, and the interconnected world of Yiddish cultural activists.
Jun 17, 2024
Interview
An Interview with Simon Starr of YID! on their new album, ZETS!
ZETS! is the second album of the Melbourne-based band, YID!
Dec 14, 2022
Interview
"I want this to be a place for you": A Conversation with Ira Khonen Temple
Yael Horowitz and Ira Khonen Temple talk queer Yiddishkayt, collage, and masoyre in Temple’s new album.
Feb 02, 2021
Interview
Memorializing the Holocaust in Electronic Music: An Interview with Francisco Dean
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