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Weaver inter­viewed Julie Weitz about her ongo­ing Doikayt project: A series of rit­u­al­is­tic, impro­vi­sa­tion­al per­for­mances at Jew­ish sites across East­ern Europe.

Apr 05, 2024

Jan­u­ary 19^th, 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

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

Maranne Windsperg­er inter­views punk­folk artist Daniel Kahn about his approach­es to transadap­ta­tion and translation.

Dec 16, 2019

Apr 05, 2019

On the beau­ti­ful, rad­i­cal, acces­si­ble, pos­si­bil­i­ties of per­for­mance and Yiddish. 

Nov 15, 2016