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Essays, interviews, listicles, podcasts, and much more, covering all aspects of Yiddish culture.
Interview
Reclaiming Aspects of the Jewish Past and Remixing Them: An Interview with Performance Artist Julie Weitz
Weaver interviewed Julie Weitz about her ongoing Doikayt project: A series of ritualistic, improvisational performances at Jewish sites across Eastern Europe.
Apr 05, 2024
Blog
Berlin Yiddish Society Column: Sutzkever's Yortsayt
January 19th, 2020. A small gallery in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district is crowded and abuzz to honor the tenth anniversary of the death of Avrom Sutzkever with poetry, music, and visual art.
Mar 15, 2020
Blog
On Not Understanding: Performing Yiddish Song Today
As a composer and performer of Yiddish music, Rosen confronts the fact that most members of my audience do not understand the language of the texts he performs. Yet, while music does not communicate information in the same way as language, it can lead listeners towards specific associations and meanings. There are multiple instances in which translation, imagined or guided, takes place during a musical performance and the composer and performer mediates these processes.
Dec 16, 2019
Interview
Between Translation and Tradaptation: An Interview with Daniel Kahn, Berlin, January 2017
Maranne Windsperger interviews punkfolk artist Daniel Kahn about his approaches to transadaptation and translation.
Dec 16, 2019
Interview
Spectacular Vernacular: An Interview with Ezra Berkley Nepon on New Yiddish Theater, Queer Performance Arts, and “Dazzle Camouflage”
On the beautiful, radical, accessible, possibilities of performance and Yiddish.
Nov 15, 2016