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Is Isaac Bashevis Singer a Yiddish Writer?

Yiddish Illustrations: "From Chagall to Diego Rivera"

Heather Valencia

Heather Valencia, Yiddish translator, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on August 7th, 2019 in Thornhill, Scotland.

2019-08-07

Marek Tuszewicki

Marek Tuszewicki, Yiddish teacher at Krakow JCC, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on May 6, 2013 at the Jewish Community Center in Krakow, Poland. This interview is entirely in Yiddish.

2013-05-06

The History of "Yung Isroel (Young Israel)"

Shachar Pinsker, literary scholar and cultural historian, provides a brief history if Yung Isroel (Young Israel), a group of poets and writers who would meet in Israel.

Maia Evrona

Maia Evrona, poet and translator of Yiddish poetry, was interviewed by Agnieszka Ilwicka on December 19, 2016 at the Association for Jewish Studies Conference in San Diego, California.

2016-12-19

Baruch Shoob

Baruch Shoob, native Yiddish speaker and former Jewish partisan fighter, was interviewed by Agnieszka Ilwicka on September 20, 2015 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

2015-09-20

Anna Rozenfeld

Anna Rozenfeld, a Yiddish artist and activist based in Poland, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on August 23, 2013 at KlezKanada in the Laurentian Mountains, Quebec, Canada.

2013-08-23

Zvi Mann

Zvi Mann, son of Yiddish writer Mendl Mann, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on June 18, 2014 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

2014-06-18

"Grains of Wheat": Abigail Weaver on the Paper Brigade

Lisa Newman talks to Smith College senior Abigail Weaver about "Grains of Wheat," her play about the Jewish intellectuals, known as the Paper Brigade, who worked to hide stores of cultural materials from Nazi forces in the Vilna ghetto.

Yisroel Rudnitsky

Yisroel Rudnitsky, Yiddish editor, typesetter, and printer, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on June 22, 2014 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

2014-06-22

Meyer Weinshel

Meyel Weinshel, PhD student and Yiddish language pedagogy specialist, was interviewed by Agnieszka Ilwicka on December 16th, 2019 in San Diego, California.

2019-12-16

Valery Dymshits

Valery Dymshits, researcher and lecturer at the Interdepartmental Center "Petersburg Judaica" at the European University at St. Petersburg, was interviewed by Tanya Panova on February 15, 2017, in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

2017-02-15

Miriam Hoffman

Miriam Hoffman, former DP camp resident, author, playwright, and lecturer, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on February 10th, 2020 in Coral Springs, Florida.

2020-02-10

Leo Melamed

Leo Melamed, child survivor of the Holocaust and former chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, was interviewed by Christa Whitney in Glencoe, Illinois on December 13, 2012. This interview contains some Yiddish.

2012-12-13

Forever Young

Barnett Zumoff

Dr. Barnett Zumoff - a medical doctor by profession and a Yiddish translator and activist, as well as President Emeritus of the Workmen's Circle/Arbeiter Ring - was interviewed by Christa Whitney on December 4, 2013 at his office at Beth Israel Hospi...

2013-12-04

Moshe Shklar

Moshe Shklar, Yiddish poet born in Poland, was interviewed by Agnieszka Ilwicka on February 19, 2013 at his home in Los Angeles, California.

2013-02-19

Beyond Time: The Paintings of Samuel Bak

Deborah Epstein

Deborah Epstein, Yiddish student, researcher of Jewish philosophy and female Yiddish writers, was interviewed by Nina Pick on July 25th, 2019 in Weimar, Germany.

2019-07-25