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Memories of Chaim Grade, Avrom Sutzkever, and Itzik Manger

Vilner gedenken: Avrom Sutzkever in Focus

Avrom Sutzkever on Poetry and Partisan Life

Sutzkever Essential Prose Book Launch, with Translator Zackary Sholem Berger and Scholar Justin Cammy

Sutzkever Essential Prose

Lider fun geṭo by Avrom Sutzkever

From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg: Sutzkever's Holocaust Chronicles with Justin Cammy | Tuesday, November 16, 7-8pm ET

Last Star in the Night

My Parents Might Not Be Admitted into Canada Today: Partisans As Irregular Combatants

Rivka Augenfeld, native Yiddish speaker and active member of the Montreal Jewish community, reflects on her parents' role as partisans during World War Two, and the way governments today approach those with similar backgrounds.

Can You Be a Yiddishist Without Teaching Your Kids Yiddish?

Paul (Hershl) Glasser - Forverts columnist and former Dean of the Max Weinreich Center at YIVO - reflects on the numerous Yiddishists who did not pass Yiddish on to their children.

“What Culture War?": Yiddish and Hebrew As Part of the Same Modernization Project

Ken (Binyomen) Moss—director of Jewish Studies Program and Assistant Professor in Modern Jewish History at Johns Hopkins University—explains why he does not subscribe to the "culture war" between Yiddish and Hebrew, arguing that speakers of both lang...

'Really? Show Me!': Rising to the Challenge of Yiddish Translation

Barnett Zumoff, Yiddish translator and President Emeritus of the Workmen's Circle/Arbeiter Ring, shares what sparked his desire to translate Yiddish poetry into English.

Reconnecting Kaczerginski and Botwinik through A Reel-to-Reel Tape from Montréal

Jordan Kutzik, translator and Yiddishist, describes his work as a fellow with the Yiddish Book Center's Frances Brandt Online Yiddish Audio Library— and discusses some exciting coincidences!

We Spent the End of World War Two Hidden Among the Books in Vilna

Samuel Bak, prominent Jewish artist from Vilna, remembers the time he spent hiding in the repository of Jewish literature collected by the Nazis, as well as the work undertaken by the Paper Brigade to rescue books for their secret archive.

“The Masters”: Prof. Ken Moss Shares His Yiddish Role Models

Ken (Binyomen) Moss—director of Jewish Studies Program and Assistant Professor in Modern Jewish History at Johns Hopkins University—describes several of his Yiddish models, including authors and Yiddishists.

"Start With the Greats": A Beginner's Guide to Yiddish Poetry

Barnett Zumoff, Yiddish translator and President Emeritus of the Workmen's Circle/Arbeiter Ring, on his list of the greats of Yiddish poetry, and the benefit of exploring Yiddish cultural productions.

Yiddish in Nature: An Anthology of Newly Translated Work

Mindl Cohen speaks with The Shmooze about the 2021 Pakn Treger Digital Translation Issue.

Rita Katz

Rita Katz - Holocaust survivor born in Smorgon, Belarus - was interviewed by Christa Whitney on February 21, 2014 in Seattle, Washington.

2014-02-21

Ruth R. Wisse

Ruth R. Wisse, author and retired research professor in Yiddish and comparative literature, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on March 7, 2016 in New York, New York.

2016-03-07

Ed Colker

Ed Colker, artist, designer, and teacher, was interviewed by Nina Pick on June 26, 2017 in Mt. Kisco, New York.

2017-06-26