Interviews

Interview

“Incomplete Mourning”: A conversation with Rokhl Kafrissen

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

Interview

Shotns -Shadows: Songs from Testimonies in the Fortunoff Video Archive, Volume III: An interview with D. Zisl Slepovitch

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.

Interview

The Cockney Yiddish Podcast

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.

Interview

Destruction Is and Is Not Forever : An Interview with emet ezell

on his­to­ry, poet­ry, and typesetting.

Interview

Linguistic Treasures in the Archive: An Interview with Isaac L. Bleaman on the Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe

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.

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"I'd like to think that it's all my canvas" - an interview with Alex Weiser

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.

Interview

Feminist Shtetl Horror: An Interview with Elizabeth Schwartz

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.

Interview

Fusing Klezmer and Kumbia Music: An Interview with Mariposas Galácticas' Jonathan Sidharta-Leibovic

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.

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Reviving Yiddish Theater in London and Recovering Female Playwrights: An Interview with Sonia Gollance

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.

Interview

Old Yiddish Scholarship in the Past, Present, and Future: An Interview with Chava Turniansky

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

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