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The Yiddish Voice was in Israel earlier in June 2023 and had the opportunity to interview Avrom Novershtern, who is professor emeritus from the Yiddish Program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and currently serves as the director of Beit Sholem Aleichem in Tel Aviv, a cultural center devoted to Yiddish and the Eastern European Jewish Heritage Topics discussed: About Beys Sholem Aleykhem - history, accomplishments, current activities (בית שלום עליכם) (Find on Facebook; Find on the Web). Yiddish writer Chaim Grade - an introduction. Women Writers Controversy - in 2021, Novershtern gave two lectures for YIVO, which resulted in some controversy with two online discussions in response. See links below. Novershtern's early home life in Argentina, and what brought him to Israel. Novershtern - Women Writers Controversy - Timeline and Links: Monday Jul 12, 2021: YIVO Yiddish Civilization Lecture: Yiddish Women Writers (Part 1) with Avraham Novershtern (In Yiddish) https://youtu.be/3wl81swZO2A Monday July 19, 2021: Vaybertaytsh podcast episode: Episode 54: Re: "Yiddish Women Writers" | ייִדישע שרײַבערינס / July 19, 2021 http://www.vaybertaytsh.com/episodes/2021/7/18/episode-54-re-yiddish-women-writers-hjhes Monday Jul 19, 2021: YIVO Yiddish Civilization Lecture: Yiddish Women Writers (Part 2) with Avraham Novershtern (In Yiddish) https://youtu.be/66iydt6dzg0 Thursday Jul 22, 2021: YIVO Yiddish Civilization Lecture: Women Writers in Yiddish Literature with Anita Norich and Karolina Szymaniak (In Yiddish) https://youtu.be/p2p_gt0EBIQ Music and Comedy Recordings, mostly in honor of July 4th, America's Independence Day: Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz Mandy Patinkin: American Tune (Words&Music by Paul Simon) Seymour Rexite: Battle Hymn of the Republic in Yiddish Cantor Ari Brown: America Medley Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus: Amerike di Prekhtike Michel Rosenberg: Getzel at a Baseball Game Clara Gold: Telebende Furt Kein Amerika Moishe Oysher & Florence Weiss: Chasidic in America Air Date: June 28, 2023
Sosye Fox (Sandy Fox) of Vaybertaytsh interviews Meyer Dovid (Mark David), host of The Yiddish Voice / דאָס ייִדישע קון, and vice versa. Thanks to In Geveb for putting this together. See also/related: Yiddish Podcasts in Conversation: Vaybertaytsh and Dos Yidishe Kol -- article about this interview in In geveb Episode 59: ?דער ייִדישער פּאָדקאַסט – װוּהין | The Yiddish Podcast Today /October 13, 2021 -- version of the same interview for the Vaybertaytsh / װײַבערטײַטש Podcast This feels very meta. In a great way. -- Tweet by Miriam Udel Music: Ladytron: Blue Jeans (Vaybertaytsh intro, excerpt) Intro instrumental music: DEM HELFANDS TANTS, an instrumental track from the CD Jeff Warschauer: The Singing Waltz
You 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 that it took so long for me to interview Perl, but nu, better late than never. I had a blast learning more about her youth and her immigration to America, her experiences teaching Yiddish and ESL, and so much more. Enjoy!Want to learn more Yiddish with Perl? Check out her website!http://learnyiddishlive.com/paula-teitelbaum/
…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 Yiddishist, a researcher, and a language teacher, and she is also about to go start a PhD in Wisconsin! We talked a lot about her life path, career, her time in Paris working at Medem Yiddish Center, and about the state of Yiddish itself. It was a blast to chat with Reyze, and I hope you all enjoy the episode as much as I enjoyed recording it!
In 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-Iranian, much older boyfriend; and how to build a family that both reflects and departs from the struggles she witnessed growing up in an immigrant household. Mashihi and I spoke about immigrant families, Jewish and Iranian identity, Great Neck, and the ethical quandary of making art from your life without hurting the ones you love. Mashihi’s work on The Heart was a major inspiration for me when I began making Vaybertaytsh. I was thrilled to get a chance to meet and talk with her.Appearances produced by Mermaid Palace and Radiotopia,You can check out a shortened text version of this interview at Jewish Currents here.Click for more information on Sharon’s work.———A note for our Yiddish listeners:אין דער עפּיזאָד רעד איך מיט מאַשיהי װעגן איר באַציִונג צו ייִדישקײַט, משפּחה, און שפּראַך. אין דער אמתן, האָט אונדזער שמועס כּמעט גאָרנישט צו טאָן מיט ייִדיש. אָבער עס האָט יאָ אַ שײַכות מיט דער געשיכטע פֿון װײַבערטײַטש: אָן איר פֿריִערדיקע אַרבעט אין פּאָדקאַסטערײַ, װײס איך נישט צי װײַבערטײַטש װאָלט עקסעסטירט, אַזאַ גרױסע ראַדיאָ־העלד איז מאַשיהי פֿאַר מיר. זאָרג זיך נישט, אָבער: נײע ייִדיש־שפּראַכיקע עפּיזאָדן װעלן באַלד אַרױסקומען!
Sandy Fox, American Jewish historian and host of Vaybertaytsh, a “feminist podcast for the Yiddish-speaking and the Yiddish-curious,” joins Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg for a conversation that weaves together the topics of Yiddish, podcasting, summer camp, gender, and much more. (Fox is also known among Yiddish-speakers as סאָסיע־פֿריידל).This episode is the fourth in a series of episodes produced in collaboration with the Yiddish Book Center, as part of its Decade of Discovery initiative, in honor of 40 years since the Yiddish Book Center’s founding. If you're enjoying Judaism Unbound, please help us keep things going with a one-time or monthly tax-deductible donation. Support Judaism Unbound by clicking here!To access full shownotes for this episode, click here.
In 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 episodes!
In this episode, we're joined by Sandra Fox to talk about contemporary Yiddish culture and her Yiddish-language feminist podcast, Vaybertaytsh. The podcast recently came back for a new season, and so we're going to be talking about the origin of the podcast as part of the development of contemporary Yiddish culture and its history.
Live show with Binyumen Schaechter, award-winning composer, arranger, conductor, musical director, and performer, live in studio; Motl Murstein (phone interview), holocaust survivor; Tania Lefman (live phone interview), holocaust survivor, and Sosye Fox (phone interview), host and producer of Vaybertaytsh: A Feminist Podcast, in Yiddish. Various topics discussed, including the JPPC, 4th-of-July, and the forthcoming season of Vaybertaytsh.
Today’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.
It’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 dollar or a whole bunch of dollars! Or maybe it’s cryptocurrency! You give it, we take it.
A 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 conduit, Yugntruf. A FRAYLIKHN GEBORTSTOG RUKHL DOBKIN!
Thanks 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. Vaybertaytsh@gmail.com
A 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 feed or on our website.Check out Daniel's music here, and Sarah's band Yiddish Princess here.
Sosye 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.
An 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.
A 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.
Break out the bug juice—it’s summer camp week on Unorthodox! We’re talking campfires, Color War, and Mark’s traumatic summer at a nudist camp. Our first guest is Sandy Fox, a doctoral candidate studying language and everyday life in Zionist, Yiddishist, and denominational summer camps. She’s also the founder of Vaybertaytsh, a feminist podcast entirely in Yiddish. She explains how different Jewish ideologies shaped each kind of camp, tells us about a post-war summer camp for children of Holocaust survivors, and breaks the news that while summer camp is distinctly Jewish in many ways, Jews didn’t actually invent it (we totally reshaped color war, though). Micah Hart, co-host of the podcast Campfires and Color Wars, talks to us about what summers were like as the camp director’s son, the difference between a Jewish camp and a camp where most of the campers happen to be Jewish, and what it means to be ‘camp hot.’ We also talk to writer Jordana Horn, who hated camp but whose kids love it—all six of them are attending some form of Jewish camp this summer. She tells us how Jewish camps give her children a space to develop their own Jewish identity and community, how social media has changed the camp experience for campers and their parents, and what really goes down when the kids ship out for the summer. Sign up for our weekly newsletter to get new episodes, behind-the-scenes photos, and more! Email us at Unorthodox@tabletmag.com—we may read your note on air. Follow us on Twitter: @tabletmag @markopp1 @liel @stuffism This episode is brought to you by Harry’s. Go to Harrys.com and enter code UNORTHODOX at checkout to get a free post shave balm. This episode is also brought to you by AT&T. Enjoy unlimited entertainment with unlimited data from AT&T. Learn more at att.com/unlimited. Music: "Mikveh Bath" by Golem "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" by Allan Sherman "Suburban Kids with Biblical Names" by Shitty Weekend "Gucci Gucci" by Kreayshawn "Rose's Turn" by Stephen Sondheim, performed by Bette Middler "Hatikvah" performed by Francki Perez et Broadway "That Power" by Childish Gambino Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A special once-a-season English episode of Vaybertaytsh with the incredible klezmer band Tsibele. They talk women in the music industry, repertoire, Yiddish, and what Klezmer means to them. And they play a whole show from Sosye's living room! Check out the lyrics on the Vaybertaytsh Blog (www.vaybertaytsh.com/blog) and support the band by pre-ordering their album at their website (www.tsibelemusic.com)!
This week we are joined by Sandy Fox, a PhD candidate at NYU and the host of the popular Yiddish feminist podcast Vaybertaytsh. Sandy talks about her dissertation, on Jewish summer camps—which, interestingly, is not shaped by the years she spent at summer camp as a child. She also tells us what it's like to write and produce a podcast about feminist topics—from fashion to midwifery—completely in Yiddish. Epsiode 0142 April 4, 2017 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts
Sosye Fox is the host and producer of Vaybertaytsh, a new podcast in Yiddish that calls itself "a feminist podcast for the Yiddish-speaking and Yiddish-curious". We reached her by phone in Tel Aviv. Hasia Segal o"h: reaired our report on the sad news of the passing of Hasia Segal. For further details, see our web site in the announcement section, here: http://yiddishvoice.com/#announcements In this broadcast we played one of Hasia's segments from our archives, an interview with Yiddishist Rabbi Gershon Winer (o"h). We'll be continuing to air segments from Hasia's radio archives in the coming weeks until our Shloyshim (Memorial) program, scheduled for Feb. 15, 2017. Also: news report from Kol Israel in Jerusalem presented by Avremi Zaks. Original broadcast date: Jan. 25, 2017
A special collaborative episode of Vaybertaytsh with listener's reactions and recordings from Women's Marches around the world! Special thanks to our contributors: Shifra Whiteman, Leah Whiteman, Benna Kessler, Meira Goodman, Anye Koyfmensch, Eshke Kirzane, Talia Martz-Oberlander, Didem Uca, Shikl Friedman, Naftali Ejdelman, Yishai Stein, Jenny Katzman, the Moss Mishpokhe, and Yudis Waletzky. For inquiries vis-a-vis music in this episode, contact us: vaybertaytsh@gmail.com..
An episode of Vaybertaytsh on "Yiddish Glory: the lost songs of World War II in the Soviet Union."
A co-produced Vaybertaytsh episode in which three young women reflect upon their mothers, who they all lost early in life.
A supplementary episode of Vaybertaytsh recorded in English with Einat Kadar, speaking about her mother, Naomi Prawer.
A Vaybertaytsh short on the situation at Standing Rock, North Dakota, and how we can get involved in the peaceful protests from our hometowns. One can find more information on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1818992031705038/
On this week’s episode, we talked about CKUT’s funding drive (please donate if you can!), a journalist who doesn’t understand our tagline, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s visit to a synagogue, and that giant cross of secularism. We were joined by Annie Cohen to discuss Jewdas’ recent Yom Kippur Ball, as well as the collective’s organizing against the institutional Jewish community in the UK. Finally, we spoke with Sandy Fox of the recently-launched podcast Vaybertaytsh, to talk about Yiddish, Feminism, and podcasting. Show Notes: https://www.treyfpodcast.com/2016/10/26/yiddish_feminism/
The first episode is a short introduction to Vaybertaytsh, a new feminist podcast in Yiddish. Sosye Fox will take you through the evolution of the idea for the show, and describe how everyone can get involved. Vaybertaytsh is recorded entirely in Yiddish, but if you want to follow what we're up to, follow us online: www.vaybertaytsh.com, and facebook.com/vaybertaytsh. !אַ שײנעם דאַנק