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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
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
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
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
Blog
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
Blog
“They were unique. They knew it.”: An Interview with Paul Buhle on Field Work, Poetry and the History of the American Left
Dade Lemanski
Apr 13, 2019
Blog
Weaving in Yiddish: An Interview with Michael Bass and Berit Engen on Yiddish Community and Creativity in Oak Park, IL
Jessica Kirzane
Oct 29, 2018
Pedagogy
The Jew Box: An Interview with Eddy Portnoy
Sarah Ellen Zarrow
Sarah Zarrow interviews Eddy Portnoy about Yiddish pedagogy, jokers, and braiding khale.
Apr 14, 2016