Interviews

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

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

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

Apr 05, 2024

Jes­si­ca Kirzane chats with Asya Schul­man and Sonia Bloom to learn about the whats, hows, and whys of the pro­grams for train­ing Yid­dish lan­guage instruc­tors through the Yid­dish Book Cen­ter: the Yid­dish Ped­a­gogy Fel­low­ship, the Yid­dish Ped­a­gogy Practicum, and Advanced Yid­dish class­es for Yid­dish teachers. 

Mar 05, 2024

Ahead of Queer Yid­dish Camp and Rad Yiddish’s joint event ​“A Cabaret Fundrais­er for a Lefty/​Queer/​Yiddish Future”, three co-orga­niz­ers sat down to chat about what brings them to this cul­tur­al orga­niz­ing work.

Nov 30, 2023

Shund​.org launched in beta mode on August 9, 2023.

Oct 01, 2023