Vaybertaytsh – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode, our guest host Esther Singer talks to Rivke Margolis, a professor at Monash University in Melbourne. They talked about queer yiddishkayt, Yiddish pedagogy, and comparing Yiddish to other minority languages. Thanks to Esther for being our first guest host in a very long time! You can find out more about Rivke’s research and writing here.

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I'm so pumped about this conversation with Etl Niborski, recorded in Tel Aviv this past summer. Etl is a 19-year-old left-wing activist and a native Yiddish speaker who recently completed her national service working in a school in Jaffa for at-risk youth. We talked all about what it’s like to be an Israeli at the end of high school — all of the complicated decisions one has to make about joining the military or finding a way not to — how her Yiddishist background impacts her political thinking, what it was like to be a Yiddish-speaking, non-Hasidic kid on the streets of Jerusalem, and about her current Yiddish activities and projects.

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A dank Sore! For more on Sore, check out what she’s doing over at our friends In geveb here and at Columbia here.

Thanks so much to Adah Hetko for making this happen, and to the whole team at KlezKanada for inviting me to be a part of the all-digital festival. Thanks of course to Sasha Lurje, Sarah Gordon, and Joanne Borts! If you liked Forshpil, you can find the whole album here on Bandcamp.

Goldy Landau, an EMT and Johns Hopkins University nursing student born and raised in KJ, and Dr. Sholem Berger MD/PhD take your questions about the Coronavirus, and shed light on what could happen going forward in the Hasidic communities currently experiencing a rise in cases.

Thanks so much to Goldy and Sholem for participating and answering all these important questions! Also thanks to Rachel and Gnendy for chiming in at the end. And finally, big thanks to Sore Biskowitz for running our social media while I was running the live show.

A conversation, recorded on Mother’s Day, with three new moms. We talked pregnancy, birth, miscarriages, breast-pumping, and so much more. Thanks Shif, Yiske, and Leah! <3

What a pleasure to talk to Sasha Berenstein, a musician and Yiddishist who recently led a communal effort of to create a list of words and phrases that have to do with transkayt and queerkayt! The list can be read here. We talked about what inspired the list and went through some of Sasha’s favorites. Thanks Sasha!

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This week on the show we're hearing a chat with Jessica Kirzane, the editor-in-chief of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. We talked about her translation of Miriam Karpilove's Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love (buy it here), what's new with In geveb, growing up Jewish all over the place, being a rebbetzin in a Reform congregation, and more. Thanks Eshke for an awesome conversation!

In this special Yiddish-English mixed episode, Sandra Chiritescu sits down with Irena Klepfisz to discuss her life journey, ranging from her relationship to Yiddish, to her poetry, scholarship, and her activism vis-a-vis the Middle East. Irena has translated Yiddish authors such as Kadya Molodowsky and Fradl Shtok, and is a long-time lesbian feminist activist. We’re super thankful to Irena for talking to Vaybertaytsh, and for Sandra for conducting what we hope will be the first of many episodes!