Vaybertaytsh

A conversation with Leana Jelen about her work as a sign language interpreter, the deaf community, growing up with Yiddish, and on being a "freak.”

Find our full conversation as a Yiddish transcript here.

Please consider Vaybertaytsh in your holiday giving this year! All donations are tax deductible, a dank our fiscal conduit, Yugntruf. 

(A fraylikhn gebortstog, Rukhl Dobkin!)

An episode recorded in front of a live audience in Stockholm, Sweden! We talked about Yiddish in Sweden and played two truths and a lie (af Yiddish, avade)!

The words Sosye talks about in Swedish are:

1. Östermalmstorg = A main train station in Central Stockholm

2. Nu = Now

3. Bra = Good

4. Slut = End

5. bröd = a sort of cracker that is everywhere in Sweden, people eat herring and bröd, for example

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Thanks so much to Shoshke-Rayzl Yuni and Pearl Lipsky Krupit for their work on this episode, and of course to Troim Katz Handler for allowing us to play her amazing poetry and spread the word.

FIND THE POETRY AND ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS HERE.

A conversation with Malky Weisz and Malky Goldman on their production company, Malky Squared Productions, and their work on a new adaptation of Naomi Ragen's play "The Women's Minyan," called "Di Froyen." Check out their websites:

www.melissaweisz.com and www.malkygoldman.com.

Find more info about the Yidish Vokh at www.yugntruf.org !

You can find "One of Us" on Netflix (trailer here). Read Etty's piece on discovering her sexuality here on Refinery29.

Sosye spoke to her good friend Yudis about something they had never discussed before in any detailed way: her work as an industrial designer at Estee Lauder. They talked sexism in the industry, the intersections and contradictions between feminism and make-up, her design inspirations, branding, and the buzz-concept of self-care. It was awesome! An episode everyone can appreciate, even those of you who never wear or buy make-up. 

Thanks Bella for talking with us, and Jessye Stein for her help with the episode! Thanks also to our sponsor, the Forverts. Check them out!

Check out Eli Preminger's klezmer with a Middle Eastern twist here.

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Thank you so much to our participants, David Roskies, Talia Martz-Oberlander, Michael Yashinsky, Adah Hetko, and Eleonore Biezunski. Thanks to the Yiddish Book Center for allowing us to use an archival recording of Ruth Rubin from 1978, so we could "speak" to her.  A groyse dank to our first advertising sponsors, the League for Yiddish and the YIVO Summer Program, and Sheva Zucker for her help and patience!  On the League for Yiddish's website, you can find details about "A Tog Yiddish Seminar" with David Fishman on April 22nd. The YIVO Summer Program this summer, the due date is April 2, so apply fast!

Don't forget to check out YIVO's digital exhibition on Ruth Rubin, with 1500 songs, starting April 4, at exhibitions.yivo.org. 

Many of Ruth Rubin's albums can be found on iTunes and Spotify, but the one's in this episode are mostly only available on YouTube right now. The songs in this episode are:

"Gitare"

"Shvern Shver Ikh"

"Bay Dem Shtetl" (and another amazing version here)

"Dortn Dortn" performed at the Yidish Vokh 

"Shpilt-zhe Mir"

"Dortn Dortn" 

Satoko and her Yiddish students at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

Thanks so much to Satoko for speaking with Vaybertaytsh! You can find her blog about Yiddish, which is in Japanese, here. We're so glad to be back from our six-week break, and hope you'll tune in for a bunch of new and exciting episodes in the coming months. A dank zayer!

Thanks Mindl for doing this interview right after a super intense AJS conference! 

Check out In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies!

See Vaybertaytsh's updated website here!

Songs: "Ladyboss" by Rachel Bloom, "Revival" by Deerhunter.