Vaybertaytsh

Sosye had a great time talking to her new Aussie khaverte Reyzl Zylberman! Our attempts to record in person were thwarted twice by sound problems, but we finally got to talk “on the record” on the phone a few weeks later. We chatted about her understanding of Bundism today, being a Yiddish teacher with kids of all ages, and her job as a Multicultural Ambassador for the Australian Football League! Reyzl is pretty badass, and we think you’ll love her as much as we do. Thanks Reyzl for talking with us and for being such a great host in Melbourne!

Sosye had a great time chatting about SKIF, what teenagers care about these days, social justice, and Australian football with three Skifistn from Melbourne, Australia: Sore (also referred to in the episode as Mia), Khayim, and Yoni. Thanks so much to Reyzl Zylberman for her help organizing this episode. To watch Sore and Khayim’s amazing videos, check out Sore’s Instagram: @caulfield_mum

A live episode from Melbourne!

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Please note we had some audio difficulties, and this might be better to listen to on speakers than in ears. Sorry folks!

A conversation with Fraidy Biegeleisen about social media, education, and life in between the Chasidish and secular worlds. You can see her face art and more on Instagram @fraidybiegeleisen. A dank Fraidy!

It's happening! Listen to learn more about our new season and our new team. We can't wait to engage with you all summer and fall!

Learn more about our new team here.

A conversation with Meena-Lifshe Viswanath about being an engineer, garbage and recycling worldwide, raising a kid in Yiddish and more! It was a great conversation - thank you Meena! A fraylikhn 2019 everyone!

A conversation with Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath and Sore-Rukhl Schaechter about their Yiddish childhoods, Barnard in the 1970s, Camp Hemshekh, and more.

Transcript of the interview can be found here! Thank you Jonah Sidman for your work.

Check out Tsvey Brider! https://tsveybrider.com/

Today’s episode is with Zohar Weiman-Kelman, a scholar of Yiddish literature and an all around badass. We talked about the erotics of Yiddish, fetish, ghosts, and poetry. Zohar also reads for us a spooky Yiddish poem. A dank Zohar! A fraylikhn Halloween tsu alemen!

SEE A PDF VERSION OF THE MOLDOWSKY POEM ZOHAR READS HERE.

A special Vaybertaytsh Short to tide you over til next week! This episode includes a new, queerified version of Mikhl Gordon’s song “Mashke,” written and performed by Noam Lerman and Leana Jealen. You can find the lyrics here on google docs, both for the beginning parts which are true to the original, and to the new parts written by Noam and Leana. They performed this for the Yidish Vokh “Talentanya,” and then we went ahead and recorded it in the only quiet space with good acoustics at the Vokh: inside of a closet. The irony did not escape us! Enjoy.

It’s our once-in-a-blue-moon English episode (horrah!) and we’ve got a great one: a conversation with the amazing photographer Shterna Goldbloom. Check out her work as we discuss it on the show at www.shternagoldbloom.com, and see the evolution of her newest project, “Feygele,” which was not published online at the time we spoke.

You can see Shterna’s conversation with Diana Clarke at In geveb here, and don’t forget to think of Vaybertaytsh in your donation plans this year, whether it’s a dollar or a whole bunch of dollars! Or maybe it’s cryptocurrency! You give it, we take it.