Interviews

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

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

Oct 01, 2023

An inter­view with Cana­di­an pro­duc­er, cura­tor, and writer, Eve­lyn Tauben, about her found­ing of FENTSTER, a win­dow gallery in Toron­to that explores the Jew­ish expe­ri­ence through dozens of artists’ eyes

Apr 03, 2023

A inter­view dis­cussing a project to pub­lish crit­i­cal edi­tions, in Pol­ish, of 25 of the most impor­tant mem­oirs culled from a larg­er col­lec­tion of his­tor­i­cal Pol­ish Jew­ish mem­oirs and auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal sources.

Jan 31, 2023

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

Dec 14, 2022

An inter­view with Pol­ish poet and musi­cian Grze­gorz Kwiatkowski.

Nov 02, 2022

This August, Nay­dus Press pub­lished Toward Hope­ful Skies, a trilin­gual (Yid­dish, Ukrain­ian, Eng­lish) vol­ume of two works of chil­dren’s poet­ry, as a ben­e­fit vol­ume to sup­port the refugee reset­tle­ment agency HIAS’s work with refugees from Ukraine.

Oct 26, 2022