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"We Had to Forge Our Link Ourselves": A New Generation of Yiddish Theatre

Motl Didner, associate artistic director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, speaks about the mixed blessing of working in the Yiddish theater without having been trained by its native participants: on the one hand, his actors lack the native...

Murray Citron

Murray Citron, poet and translator, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on November 2nd, 2016, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

2016-11-02

Nancy Sherman

Nancy Sherman, former Associate Director at the Yiddish Book Center, was interviewed by Anita Christensen on October 13, 2010 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.

2010-10-13

Moshe Fiszman

Moshe Fiszman, z"l, Holocaust survivor, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on February 14th, 2017, in Melbourne, Australia.

2017-02-14

Yiddish Theater Has Never Been One Single Thing

Motl Didner, associate artistic director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, explains that "Yiddish theater" has never been a monolithic, singular entity as some would allege, but rather is characterized by a multiplicity of shows, styles, an...

Interactions with Yiddish Writers in My Childhood

Goldie Morgentaler, daughter of Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb, names some of the writers who came to her parents' house when she was a child and describes some of her interactions with them.

Georg Brinkmann

Georg Brinkmann, klezmer musician and teacher, was interviewed by Franziska Seehausen on July 26, 2017 in Bonn, Germany.

2017-07-26

A Diverse and Public Community: A Unique Jewish Community in Montreal

Anna Fishman Gonshor, Faculty Lecturer of Yiddish Studies at McGill University and Montreal-based Yiddish activist, reflects upon what she thinks makes the Jewish community in Montreal unique, and talks about the prominent Jewish figures who have be...

Benjamin (Binyomen) Harshav

Benjamin Harshav, z"l, professor emeritus at Yale University, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on March 18, 2013 in North Haven, Connecticut. This interview is entirely in Yiddish.

2013-03-18

Shura Grinhoyz-Turkow

Shura Grinhoyz-Turkow - Yiddish actress and activist born in Bialystok, now living in Israel - was interviewed by Christa Whitney on June 16, 2014 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

2014-06-16

Henry Slucki

Henry Slucki, child survivor of the Holocaust, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on January 15, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.

2013-01-15

Motl Didner

Motl Didner, Associate Artistic Director of the Folksbeine National Yiddish Theatre, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on December 17, 2013 at the Association for Jewish Studies Conference in Boston, Massachusetts.

2013-12-17

December 2017: Handpicked

"The Ballad of Old Harlequin"

"Immodestly Yours..." Sometimes the inscriptions are as interesting as the books themselves

The Yiddish Torah

A Freylekhn Purim!

June 2017: Handpicked

Frank London

Frank London, founding member of the Klezmatics and Frank London's All-Star Klezmer Brass Ensemble, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on August 24, 2011 at KlezKanada in the Laurentian Mountains of Canada. Frank's interview begins with an interest...

2011-08-24

Bartlomiej Janiczak

Bartlomiej Janiczak, polyglot, translator, and Yiddish enthusiast, was interviewed by Nina Pick on August 1st, 2019 in Weimar, Germany.

2019-08-01