Interviews

A con­ver­sa­tion about Yid­dish, the­ater, the val­ue we place on the past, and the need to grap­ple with it.

Jun 05, 2025

Meaghan Guter­man speaks with D. Zisl Sle­povich about his pow­er­ful col­lec­tion of albums based on songs from Holo­caust sur­vivor tes­ti­monies held at the For­tunoff Video Archive for Holo­caust Tes­ti­monies at Yale University.

Jun 04, 2025

The Cock­ney Yid­dish Pod­cast explores the unknown Yid­dish pop­u­lar cul­ture of Lon­don’s East End through an array of new­ly dis­cov­ered sto­ries and songs from the 1880s to the 1950s.

May 27, 2025

on his­to­ry, poet­ry, and typesetting.

May 15, 2025

The Cor­pus of Spo­ken Yid­dish in Europe, a dig­i­tal lan­guage archive sourced from Holo­caust sur­vivor tes­ti­monies from the USC Shoah Foun­da­tion, is a project fund­ed by a five-year CAREER Award from the Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion that will serve as a resource for Yid­dish lin­guis­tics, ped­a­gogy, and lan­guage revitalization.

Mar 27, 2025

Draw­ing from a kalei­do­scop­ic range of sources in his work, Weis­er engages in vibrant dia­logue with voic­es from the past while build­ing inno­v­a­tive son­ic worlds for con­tem­po­rary audiences.

Jan 13, 2025

A con­ver­sa­tion with Eliz­a­beth Schwartz, author of The Sweet Fra­grance of Life and Oth­er Hor­ror Sto­ries, on inter­act­ing with the hor­ror genre as a Jew­ish woman.

Dec 19, 2024

Mari­posas Galác­ti­cas [Galac­tic But­ter­flies] is an eight-piece band from Philadel­phia that per­forms a fusion of kumbia [folk music from Latin Amer­i­ca], punk, and klezmer music.

Dec 10, 2024

Tama­ra Glea­son Fried­berg sat down with Sonia Gol­lance in Sum­mer 2024 to dis­cuss Yid­dish the­ater in Lon­don, her trans­la­tion of Tea Arciszewska’s Miryeml, and what comes next.

Nov 26, 2024

Aya Elya­da inter­views Cha­va Tur­ni­an­sky and dis­cuss­es her career, her research, and the state of the field of Old Yid­dish lan­guage and literature.

Jul 12, 2024