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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.
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Weaving in Yiddish: An Interview with Michael Bass and Berit Engen on Yiddish Community and Creativity in Oak Park, IL
Oct 29, 2018
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“They were unique. They knew it.”: An Interview with Paul Buhle on Field Work, Poetry and the History of the American Left
Apr 13, 2019
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Body of Language, Transforming the Language and Culture Archive of Ashkenazic Jewry: An Interview between David Shneer, Rob Adler Peckerar and Alexx Shilling
David Shneer interviews Rob Adler Peckerar and Alexx Shilling about their project to bring embodied artistic interpretation to bear on a linguistic archive.
May 20, 2019
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
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'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