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"The only person who will listen to me in Yiddish is my dog"

EX360_2822 Ken Frieden, B.G. Rudolph Professor of Judaic Studies at Syracuse University, speaks about the promise made in his ketubah (marriage contract) to speak "both lashon kodesh [Hebrew] and...

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"Trying to Eat a Steak With a Butterknife": A Criticism of Analyzing Yiddish...

EX360_2800 Ken Frieden, B.G. Rudolph Professor of Judaic Studies at Syracuse University, recounts a bit of criticism directed at his book Classic Yiddish Fiction from a "nativist" Yiddishist, who...

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Is There A Yiddish Revival?

EX447_2575 Jordan Kutzik, translator and Yiddishist, talks about submissions to the Yiddish-language journal he edits, and Yiddish-language writers.More from this narrator: Jordan Kutzik

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

EX447_2573 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...

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"You Can't Know the Culture and the History Without the Language"

EX506_3021 Jordana de Bloeme, scholar of Eastern European Jewish history, laments the prevalence of conferences and festivals about Yiddish that feature no spoken Yiddish, and speaks to the role that...

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Offering Relief Through Yiddish After Hurricane Sandy

EX509_3076 Adi Mahalel, lecturer of Yiddish Studies at the University of Maryland, speaks about his experience volunteering as a Yiddish interpreter in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn following the...

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

EX503_3056 Motl Didner, Assistant Associate Director of the Folksbiene National Yiddish Theatre, speaks about the mixed blessing of working in the Yiddish theater without having been trained by its...

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Yiddish Theater Has Never Been One Single Thing

EX503_3073 Motl Didner, Assistant Associate Director of the Folksbiene National Yiddish Theatre, explains that "Yiddish theater" has never been a monolithic, singular entity as some would allege, but...

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Yiddish Activism: Walking the Walk

EX503_3061 Motl Didner, Assistant Associate Director of the Folksbiene National Yiddish Theatre, emphatically identifies as an activist and decries those who bemoan the death of Yiddish without doing...

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“A Herring Is Also A Fish”: On Yiddish, Insecurity, and Being A Yiddishist in...

EX505_2960 Miriam Udel, assistant professor of German Studies and Jewish Studies at Emory University, invokes a Yiddish expression to offer advice on what it means to be a Yiddishist: on the one hand,...

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Modernism and the Yiddish Picaresque Novel

EX505_2965 Miriam Udel, assistant professor of German Studies and Jewish Studies at Emory University, speaks about her work involving modernism and the evolution of the novel. She suggests that...

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"Making a Space for Progressive Judaism": Yiddish and Queer Yiddishkayt...

EX588_3648 Alana Fichman, Steiner Summer Yiddish Program student, discusses how she began exploring Yiddish in response to what she perceived as a lack of progressive Jewish discourse on her college...

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Why Study Yiddish? Far Vos Nisht! (Why Not?)

EX588_3653 Alana Fichman, Steiner Summer Yiddish Program student, speaks to why studying Yiddish is a worthy and relevant pursuit.More from this narrator: Alana Fichman

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Resuscitating a Tradition: Bringing a Zamir Chorus Back to its Roots in Lodz,...

EX531_3263 Joshua Jacobson, professor of music at Northeastern University and founder / artistic director of Zamir Chorale of Boston, speaks about his choir's travels through Europe in celebration of...

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Mystery or Hilarity: Attitudes toward Yiddish in Israel versus the United...

EX510_3147 Rachel Rojanski, Professor of Judaic Studies at Brown University, discusses the difference in cultural attitudes to Yiddish between Israel and the United States.More from this narrator:...

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