interview

Mir zaynen do: A Conversation with Sarah Schulman about Yiddish in Sweden

Jacqueline Nekhe Krass and Sarah Schulman

A conversation about Schulman's new edited anthology, Jiddisch i Sverige: mir zaynen do.

Jun 02, 2026

interview

scandinavia

translation

publishing

Interview

The Boston Dictionary Project: The Balebos of Verterbukh.org

Jonah Lubin and Raphael Halff

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

dictionaries

interview

Interview

Nisht keyn kleynikeyt: The League for Yiddish Thrives

Jacqueline Nekhe Krass and Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath

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

dictionaries

interview

Interview

A Brief History of Yiddish Dictionaries: Ilan Stavans in Conversation with Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath

Ilan Stavans and 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

An Interview with the Editors of Iberzets

Jowita Pańczyk, Evgenia Batsevitsky, Ilana Goldberg, Abigail Morris-Reich and Mika Cohen

Nov 07, 2025

interview

translation

Interview

“Incomplete Mourning”: A conversation with Rokhl Kafrissen

Jonathan L. Green and 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

Esther Singer and Tomas Woodski

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

Pedagogy

Yiddish in Georgia

Sarah Biskowitz and Lasha Shakulashvili

Sarah Biskowitz speaks with Lasha Shakulashvili about Yiddish in the South Caucusus region and his new role teaching Yiddish at at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU).

Feb 20, 2023

interview

Asia

Soviet Union

Interview

An Interview with Simon Starr of YID! on their new album, ZETS!

Rebecca Margolis

ZETS! is the second album of the Melbourne-based band, YID!

Dec 14, 2022

music

interview

australia

Pedagogy

Labzik Assembled! Bringing Radical 1930s Yiddish Children’s Literature to the Virtual Stage

Cameron Bernstein

Cameron Bernstein interviews director Jake Krakovsky about his bilingual Yiddish-English puppet film “Labzik: Tales of a Clever Pup” based on short stories by Chaver Paver.

Nov 04, 2021

interview

theater

children's literature

Interview

"I want this to be a place for you": A Conversation with Ira Khonen Temple

Yael Horowitz and Ira Khonen Temple

Yael Horowitz and Ira Khonen Temple talk queer Yiddishkayt, collage, and masoyre in Temple's new album.

Feb 02, 2021

interview

music

Klezmer

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

interview

Holocaust

music

Interview

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

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

Dance

linguistics