Vaybertaytsh
67 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsVaybertaytsh is a podcast for the Yiddish-speaking and Yiddish-curious.
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Episode 61: Rivke Margolis | רבקה מאַרגאָליס
December 06, 2021 12:00 - 48.3 MBIn this episode, our guest host Esther Singer talks to Rivke Margolis, a professor at Monash University in Melbourne. They talked about queer yiddishkayt, Yiddish pedagogy, and comparing Yiddish to other minority languages. Thanks to Esther for being our first guest host in a very long time! You can find out more about Rivke’s research and writing here. Want some merch to launch a new look in 2022? Check out our new Redbubble site here.
Episode 60: Etl Niborski | עטל ניבאָרסקי
November 22, 2021 16:38 - 48.8 MBI'm so pumped about this conversation with Etl Niborski, recorded in Tel Aviv this past summer. Etl is a 19-year-old left-wing activist and a native Yiddish speaker who recently completed her national service working in a school in Jaffa for at-risk youth. We talked all about what it’s like to be an Israeli at the end of high school — all of the complicated decisions one has to make about joining the military or finding a way not to — how her Yiddishist background impacts her political think...
Episode 59: ?דער ייִדישער פּאָדקאַסט – װוּהין | The Yiddish Podcast Today
October 13, 2021 13:15 - 50.9 MBIn this episode, Sosye and Meyer Dovid from the long-running Yiddish radio show Dos Yidishe Kol chat all things Yiddish, podcasting, and — you guessed it — Yiddish podcasting. It was a pleasure to get to know Meyer Dovid better, and to learn a bit about his radio show’s trajectory. You can see a concise version of our conversation in Yiddish and in English translation at In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. Thank you to In geveb’s blog team for proposing this idea and collaborating with b...
Episode 58: Miriam Udel | מרים יודל
October 05, 2021 13:30 - 51.6 MBIt was wonderful to get a chance to speak to Miriam Udel, sof-kol-sof! Miriam is associate professor of Yiddish language, literature, and culture at Emory University. She recently published Honey on the Page (NYU Press, October 2020 — happy 1st birthday to the book!), a rich resource of nearly fifty Yiddish stories and poems in English translation. We chatted children’s literature, Miriam’s background story with Judaism, her rabbinical studies at Yeshivat Maharat, and much more.
Episode 57: Isabel Frey | איזאַבעל פֿרײַ
August 31, 2021 10:00 - 51.6 MBWhat a pleasure to get to know Isabel Frey! Isabel is a Vienna-based Yiddish musician with a wonderful new-ish album called Millennial Bundist. We talked about being Jewish in Vienna, her left-wing activism and her departure from the Zionism of her youth, as well as her music and her future plans. I know you'll love her story as well as her music! Read more about her and check out her music at https://www.isabelfrey.com/
Episode 56: Paula Teitelbaum | פּערל טײטלבױם
August 17, 2021 11:00 - 54.5 MBYou might know Perl as your former or current Yiddish teacher. You might know her as a person with the lovely singing voice at the zingeray. You might know her as your ESL teacher (okay, probably her ESL students aren’t listening to Vaybertaytsh). How do I know Perl? She’s one of my best friend’s mames, and since I had kind of a weird family life, I spent a lot of my time - like, really a lot of it - in Perl’s house, spending time with her daughter Shifra. So maybe it is a little strange tha...
Episode 55: Cameron Bernstein | קאַמעראָן בערנשטיין
August 03, 2021 11:00 - 23.3 MBThis week we have someone who might be a familiar face to you if you lurk on social media of any and all kinds: Cameron Bernstein of Yiddish TikTok fame! I had a blast hearing about Cameron’s Yiddish journey thus far and learning about how TikTok works! You can follow Cameron on TikTok or Instagram to see her creative, informative, and funny videos. Keep it up, Cameron! Big fan over here.
Episode 54: Re: "Yiddish Women Writers" | ייִדישע שרײַבערינס
July 19, 2021 07:47 - 36.2 MBWe’re back earlier than expected with a special episode. Last week, YIVO streamed a lecture as part of the Uriel Weinreich Yiddish Summer Program on the topic “Yiddish Women Writers.” (See and hear the lecture here). The lecturer, Professor Avraham Noversthern, wanted to be controversial… and, well, he succeeded in that mission! In this episode, Jessica Kirzane, Faith Jones, and Ayelet Brinn delve into what made Novershtern’s arguments so controversial, and how his claims run counter to th...
Episode 53: Reyze Turner | רײזע טורנער
July 13, 2021 11:00 - 53.4 MB…and we’re back! Sorry for the very long delay, everyone. I don’t know I’ve said this in any recent episodes, but I’m writing a book right now, and oof, has it taken a lot of time/energy out of me. But the clouds are clearing, both from the writing and from the Corona year we all just got through, and it finally feels like the right time to bring back Vaybertaytsh. I’m so excited, I could just scream! And a talk with Reyze Turner is quite a way to get back into things! Reyze is a passionate...
Episode 52: Sharon Mashihi's "Appearances"| A Jewish Currents Collaboration
February 11, 2021 06:00 - 85.8 MBIn collaboration with Jewish Currents, Vaybertaytsh is pleased to present a special English episode with artist and podcast producer Sharon Mashihi. An Iranian Jew from Great Neck, NY, Mashihi places her new audio series, Appearances, at “6 out of 10 on the truth spectrum.” The protagonist of the series is a lightly fictionalized version of Mashihi named Melanie, who wrestles with questions drawn from her creator’s life: whether to have a baby as a single mother or with her non-Jewish, non-...
Episode 51: Sore Chiritescu | שרה קיריטעסקו
November 17, 2020 11:37 - 38.3 MBA dank Sore! For more on Sore, check out what she’s doing over at our friends In geveb here and at Columbia here.
Episode 50: KlezKanada, Live! [Yiddish Edition]
November 03, 2020 11:46 - 55.9 MBThanks so much to Adah Hetko for making this happen, and to the whole team at KlezKanada for inviting me to be a part of the all-digital festival. Thanks of course to Sasha Lurje, Sarah Gordon, and Joanne Borts! If you liked Forshpil, you can find the whole album here on Bandcamp.
Episode 49: Corona Q+A | קאראנע - פראגעס און ענטפערס אױף אידיש
October 20, 2020 10:49 - 51.4 MBGoldy Landau, an EMT and Johns Hopkins University nursing student born and raised in KJ, and Dr. Sholem Berger MD/PhD take your questions about the Coronavirus, and shed light on what could happen going forward in the Hasidic communities currently experiencing a rise in cases. Thanks so much to Goldy and Sholem for participating and answering all these important questions! Also thanks to Rachel and Gnendy for chiming in at the end. And finally, big thanks to Sore Biskowitz for running our s...
Episode 48: Alice Che | אַליסע טשע
October 06, 2020 10:04 - 53.3 MBGo check out Alice’s AMAZING youtube videos in Yiddish here. You can also follow Alice on Instagram @yiddish_balagan. The songs in this episode were from the awesome band Kiki Malinki. Check them out here on Bandcamp! We’re so happy to be back! Thanks for your patience.
Episode 47: רעדנדיק פֿון מוטערשאַפֿט | A (Belated) Mother's Day
May 14, 2020 06:31 - 86.1 MBA conversation, recorded on Mother’s Day, with three new moms. We talked pregnancy, birth, miscarriages, breast-pumping, and so much more. Thanks Shif, Yiske, and Leah! <3
Episode 46: Sasha Berenstein | סאַשע בערענשטיין
April 20, 2020 08:18 - 52.2 MBWhat a pleasure to talk to Sasha Berenstein, a musician and Yiddishist who recently led a communal effort of to create a list of words and phrases that have to do with transkayt and queerkayt! The list can be read here. We talked about what inspired the list and went through some of Sasha’s favorites. Thanks Sasha! Vaybertaytsh Shmueskrayzn continue on Zoom, every Thursday at 12PM!
Episode 45: Jessica Kirzane | עשקע קירזײן
February 12, 2020 09:32 - 67.9 MBThis week on the show we're hearing a chat with Jessica Kirzane, the editor-in-chief of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. We talked about her translation of Miriam Karpilove's Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love (buy it here), what's new with In geveb, growing up Jewish all over the place, being a rebbetzin in a Reform congregation, and more. Thanks Eshke for an awesome conversation!
Episode 44: Irena Klepfisz | אירינע קלעפּפֿיש (English/Yiddish)
December 18, 2019 05:37 - 63 MBIn this special Yiddish-English mixed episode, Sandra Chiritescu sits down with Irena Klepfisz to discuss her life journey, ranging from her relationship to Yiddish, to her poetry, scholarship, and her activism vis-a-vis the Middle East. Irena has translated Yiddish authors such as Kadya Molodowsky and Fradl Shtok, and is a long-time lesbian feminist activist. We’re super thankful to Irena for talking to Vaybertaytsh, and for Sandra for conducting what we hope will be the first of many episo...
Episode 43: Sarah Bialis | שׂרה ביאַלאַס
October 30, 2019 10:34 - 63.4 MBA conversation with Sarah Bialis. Born in Poland, Sarah survived the Holocaust, moved to the nascent Jewish state, and then returned to Europe, living in Berlin for most of her adult life. She told her story of survival, immigration, and what it has been like to live in Germany ever since she returned to Europe. Conversation contains potentially triggering information, as it is a Holocaust testimony. For more information about Karsten Troyke’s music, including his album with Sarah’s childh...
Episode 42: רײזל זילבערמאַן | Reyzl Zylberman
September 03, 2019 19:00 - 70.6 MBSosye had a great time talking to her new Aussie khaverte Reyzl Zylberman! Our attempts to record in person were thwarted twice by sound problems, but we finally got to talk “on the record” on the phone a few weeks later. We chatted about her understanding of Bundism today, being a Yiddish teacher with kids of all ages, and her job as a Multicultural Ambassador for the Australian Football League! Reyzl is pretty badass, and we think you’ll love her as much as we do. Thanks Reyzl for talking ...
Episode 41: די סקיפֿיסטן | The Teenage Yiddishists of Melbourne
August 08, 2019 10:00 - 32.2 MBSosye had a great time chatting about SKIF, what teenagers care about these days, social justice, and Australian football with three Skifistn from Melbourne, Australia: Sore (also referred to in the episode as Mia), Khayim, and Yoni. Thanks so much to Reyzl Zylberman for her help organizing this episode. To watch Sore and Khayim’s amazing videos, check out Sore’s Instagram: @caulfield_mum
Episode 40: דירעקט פֿון מעלבורן | Live in Melbourne!
July 17, 2019 08:49 - 63.2 MBA live episode from Melbourne! Follow along with the slideshow here. Please note we had some audio difficulties, and this might be better to listen to on speakers than in ears. Sorry folks!
Episode 39: פֿרײדי ביגעלאײַזן | Fraidy Biegeleisen, Instagram Influencer
July 04, 2019 11:00 - 77.2 MBA conversation with Fraidy Biegeleisen about social media, education, and life in between the Chasidish and secular worlds. You can see her face art and more on Instagram @fraidybiegeleisen. A dank Fraidy!
A Kitzur: We’re Back!
June 18, 2019 08:45 - 5.17 MBIt's happening! Listen to learn more about our new season and our new team. We can't wait to engage with you all summer and fall! Learn more about our new team here.
On Hiatus! New Episodes Starting in June 2019
January 23, 2019 15:08Dear Vaybertaytshniks, It’s been a great ride this fall putting out some of the episodes recorded over the summer! As I transition into a pretty intense semester, I’ve decided to put Vaybertaytsh on a brief hiatus until late Spring. During that time I’ll be doing a bit of recording, and working to build up the show’s financial and logistical backbone. Please keep in touch with us on social media, listen to our back episodes, and let us know if you have ideas for fresh new content! Mit ...
Episode 38: מינע-ליפֿשע ווישוואַנאַט | Meena-Lifshe Viswanath
December 19, 2018 14:41 - 87.7 MBA conversation with Meena-Lifshe Viswanath about being an engineer, garbage and recycling worldwide, raising a kid in Yiddish and more! It was a great conversation - thank you Meena! A fraylikhn 2019 everyone!
Episode 37: גיטל שעכטער־ווישוואַנאַט און שרה־רחל שעכטער | The Schaechter Sisters, Rukhl and Gitl
December 05, 2018 14:21 - 40 MBA conversation with Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath and Sore-Rukhl Schaechter about their Yiddish childhoods, Barnard in the 1970s, Camp Hemshekh, and more. Transcript of the interview can be found here! Thank you Jonah Sidman for your work. Check out Tsvey Brider! https://tsveybrider.com/
Episode 36: Zohar Weiman-Kelman | לעסביִאַנקעס, שדים, און ייִדישע פּאָעזיִע [Vaybertaytsh Halloween!]
October 30, 2018 09:33 - 58.6 MBToday’s episode is with Zohar Weiman-Kelman, a scholar of Yiddish literature and an all around badass. We talked about the erotics of Yiddish, fetish, ghosts, and poetry. Zohar also reads for us a spooky Yiddish poem. A dank Zohar! A fraylikhn Halloween tsu alemen! SEE A PDF VERSION OF THE MOLDOWSKY POEM ZOHAR READS HERE.
A Kitzur: משקה, אַרױס פֿון דער שאַפֿע | "Mashke," Out of the Closet
October 22, 2018 09:01 - 9.85 MBA special Vaybertaytsh Short to tide you over til next week! This episode includes a new, queerified version of Mikhl Gordon’s song “Mashke,” written and performed by Noam Lerman and Leana Jealen. You can find the lyrics here on google docs, both for the beginning parts which are true to the original, and to the new parts written by Noam and Leana. They performed this for the Yidish Vokh “Talentanya,” and then we went ahead and recorded it in the only quiet space with good acoustics at the V...
Episode 35: Shterna Goldbloom, "Feygele" Photographer (in English) | שטערנאַ גאָלדבלום
October 04, 2018 09:46 - 55.4 MBIt’s our once-in-a-blue-moon English episode (horrah!) and we’ve got a great one: a conversation with the amazing photographer Shterna Goldbloom. Check out her work as we discuss it on the show at www.shternagoldbloom.com, and see the evolution of her newest project, “Feygele,” which was not published online at the time we spoke. You can see Shterna’s conversation with Diana Clarke at In geveb here, and don’t forget to think of Vaybertaytsh in your donation plans this year, whether it’s a d...
Episode 34: ליאַנאַ יעלען, שטום־לשון איבערזעצערקע | Leana Jelen
September 12, 2018 12:28 - 62.2 MBA conversation with Leana Jelen about her work as a sign language interpreter, the deaf community, growing up with Yiddish, and on being a "freak.” A transcript is coming in a week or so! In fact, we're starting to make transcripts again more generally. If you'd like to help, donate to us to cover our costs, or work for us as a transcriber. Contact us if you're interested. Please consider Vaybertaytsh in your holiday giving this year! All donations are tax deductible, a dank our fiscal condu...
Episode 33: דירעקט אין שװעדן | Live in Sweden!
August 23, 2018 11:00 - 49.6 MBAn 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 Follow us on Instagram! @vaybertaytsh
Episode 32: די עראָטישע פּאָעזיִע פֿון טרױם קאַץ הענדלער | The Erotic Poetry of Troim Katz Handler
July 31, 2018 06:12 - 22 minutes - 31.2 MBThanks 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.
Episode 31: מלכּי און מלכּי | Malky and Malky Talk Hasidim on TV and Women in Yiddish Theater
July 10, 2018 05:58 - 48.6 MBA 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 !
Episode 30: עטי אױש | Etty Ausch from "One of Us"
June 05, 2018 11:00 - 93.3 MBYou can find "One of Us" on Netflix (trailer here). Read Etty's piece on discovering her sexuality here on Refinery29.
Episode 29: יהודית װאַלעצקי | A Fierce Red Lip
May 16, 2018 12:50 - 66.8 MBI spoke to my good friend Yudis about something we never discussed before: her work in the beauty industry as an industrial designer. We talked self-care, branding, feminism, and sexism at work. Thanks Yudis!
Episode 28: בעלאַ בריקס־קלײַן | Beit HaBund in Tel Aviv with Bella Bryks-Klein
April 18, 2018 11:38 - 38.1 MBThanks 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. If you'd like to be connected to Bella's Vos Ven Vu newsletter, get in touch with us and we'll make the shidduch. [email protected]
Episode 27: {redn mit di toyte} Ruth Rubin | רות רובין
March 27, 2018 10:00 - 59.4 MBThank 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 Semin...
Episode 26: סאַטאָקאָ רבקה קאַמאָשידאַ | Satoko Kamoshida
March 13, 2018 07:52 - 68.2 MBA conversation with sociolinguist Satoko Kamoshida about her work, Yiddish in Japan, feminism, and more.
Episode 25: “מינדל כּהן פֿון „אין געװעב | Mindl Cohen
January 29, 2018 08:31 - 39 minutes - 54.7 MBThanks 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.
Episode 24: שרה גאָרדאָן און דניל קאהן | Sarah Gordon & Daniel Kahn
January 08, 2018 12:12 - 59 minutes - 81.8 MBA conversation with klezmorim Sarah Gordon and Daniel Kahn on music, yerushe, politics, plus two live versions of songs just for Vaybertaytsh! If you're brain needs a little break mid-episode, we recommend taking a break after the first live song, "Harbst Lid".. but then come back for more conversation and another live song! (Sorry, that link I promised in the episode didn't work out this time. I gotta learn HTML!) If you're new to Vaybertaytsh, check out the other amazing episodes in our ...
Episode 23: ישו | Jesus, etc.
December 24, 2017 14:08 - 36.1 MBA Very Vaybertaytsh Nitl. Rukhl Slutsky and Mindl Cohen talk Jesus and the Jews.
Episode 22: לײַװ“ מיט ישין„ | Live with Yishai Stein
December 06, 2017 16:39 - 43.4 MBSosye went live from her couch with Yishai Stein, a new member of the Vaybertaytsh production team, about working and living on a Lakota reservation in South Dakota, being on the Dorot program in Israel, and her upcoming episodes of Vaybertaytsh! We also took questions from our listeners.
Episode 21: ליבע | Love
November 14, 2017 09:19 - 68.5 MBOn Yiddish in our love lives. Sosye on Yiddish romance in In geveb 2 years ago! https://ingeveb.org/blog/smitten-in-yiddish-taytsh-and-your-love-life Thanks to the Forward for including Sosye in the Forward 50! http://forward.com/series/forward-50/2017/sandra-fox/
Episode 20: "רובי פֿון „שונד | Ruby Elliot Zuckerman on Her New Radio Show "Shund"
October 04, 2017 06:14 - 50.9 MBAn interview with Ruby Elliot Zuckerman about her new radio show "Shund" on WMCN radio! You can listen to shund at wmcn.fm from 11PM-12AM CST on Mondays. Want to get Sosye a birthday present, but don't know what she'd like? She'd love for you to get involved with making an episode of Vaybertaytsh! Interested? Contact us at vaybertaytsh.com/contact.
Episode 19: Raising Yiddish Kids | די עלטערן
September 13, 2017 06:08 - 47 minutes - 61.7 MBA conversation between parents raising their kids in Yiddish. Please remember to take our listener survey! Find it here: https://goo.gl/e883eh
Episode 18: Vaybertaytsh LIVE! | װײַבערטײַטש דירעקט פֿון דער ייִדיש־װאָך
August 23, 2017 03:14 - 49 minutes - 65 MBA show recorded live at the Yiddish Vokh! We talk about our generation(s), share stories, and play games based on the radio show "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" - only better, because it's all in Yiddish.
Episode 17: {farvos} ייִדיש און איך | Yiddish in the Making of Me
August 14, 2017 14:31 - 41 minutes - 56.4 MBIn our last Farvos episode, we have a conversation about Yiddish and identity. How does Yiddish influence who you are, and why?
Episode 16: {farvos} ?מאַמע-לשון אין דער אַקאַדעמיע | Mamaloshn Academy?
August 02, 2017 04:51 - 37 minutes - 51 MBDoes "mamaloshn" exist in academia? Is the line between the personal and the professional too blurry when it comes to Yiddish? Are academics part of the future of spoken Yiddish, or a different story entirely? Should Yiddish researchers speak Yiddish, if their focus is on the written word? Why?
Episode 15: {farvos} קװירקײַט | Queer in Yiddish
July 18, 2017 08:21 - 24 minutes - 22 MBWhat does Yiddish have to do with queerness? What is it like to be trans or queer in Yiddish? Why Yiddish? Help Vaybertaytsh get a field recorder, so we can make better quality episodes with more than two people!! A dank! <3 www.vaybertaytsh.com/donate Introducing our "Farvos" series, put together by the students of the Naomi Prawar Kadar International Yiddish Program in Tel Aviv. A dank Liel, Teddy, Refoel and Jessica for participating in this first of three episodes. Side note: Please c...