Vaybertaytsh
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode 61: Rivke Margolis | רבקה מאַרגאָליס
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our guest host Esther Singer talks to Rivke Margolis, a professor at Monash University in Melbourne. They talked about queer yiddishk...
Episode 60: Etl Niborski | עטל ניבאָרסקי
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I'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 Y...
Episode 59: ?דער ייִדישער פּאָדקאַסט – װוּהין | The Yiddish Podcast Today
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Sosye and Meyer Dovid from the long-running Yiddish radio show Dos Yidishe Kol chat all things Yiddish, podcasting, and — you guess...
Episode 58: Miriam Udel | מרים יודל
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It 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 E...
Episode 57: Isabel Frey | איזאַבעל פֿרײַ
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What 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 tal...
Episode 56: Paula Teitelbaum | פּערל טײטלבױם
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 55: Cameron Bernstein | קאַמעראָן בערנשטיין
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This 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 fa...
Episode 54: Re: "Yiddish Women Writers" | ייִדישע שרײַבערינס
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’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...
Episode 53: Reyze Turner | רײזע טורנער
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
…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 n...
Episode 52: Sharon Mashihi's "Appearances"| A Jewish Currents Collaboration
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In collaboration with Jewish Currents, Vaybertaytsh is pleased to present a special English episode with artist and podcast producer Sharon Mashihi.An...
Episode 51: Sore Chiritescu | שרה קיריטעסקו
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A 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]
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks 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. Tha...
Episode 49: Corona Q+A | קאראנע - פראגעס און ענטפערס אױף אידיש
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Goldy 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 Co...
Episode 48: Alice Che | אַליסע טשע
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Go check out Alice’s AMAZING youtube videos in Yiddish here. You can also follow Alice on Instagram @yiddish_balagan. The songs in this episode wer...
Episode 47: רעדנדיק פֿון מוטערשאַפֿט | A (Belated) Mother's Day
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation, recorded on Mother’s Day, with three new moms. We talked pregnancy, birth, miscarriages, breast-pumping, and so much more. Thanks Sh...
Episode 46: Sasha Berenstein | סאַשע בערענשטיין
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What 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 tha...
Episode 45: Jessica Kirzane | עשקע קירזײן
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This 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 tr...
Episode 44: Irena Klepfisz | אירינע קלעפּפֿיש (English/Yiddish)
18 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this special Yiddish-English mixed episode, Sandra Chiritescu sits down with Irena Klepfisz to discuss her life journey, ranging from her relations...
Episode 43: Sarah Bialis | שׂרה ביאַלאַס
30 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Sarah Bialis. Born in Poland, Sarah survived the Holocaust, moved to the nascent Jewish state, and then returned to Europe, living...
Episode 42: רײזל זילבערמאַן | Reyzl Zylberman
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sosye 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...
Episode 41: די סקיפֿיסטן | The Teenage Yiddishists of Melbourne
08 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sosye had a great time chatting about SKIF, what teenagers care about these days, social justice, and Australian football with three Skifistn from Mel...
Episode 40: דירעקט פֿון מעלבורן | Live in Melbourne!
17 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A 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 o...
Episode 39: פֿרײדי ביגעלאײַזן | Fraidy Biegeleisen, Instagram Influencer
04 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Fraidy Biegeleisen about social media, education, and life in between the Chasidish and secular worlds. You can see her face art a...
A Kitzur: We’re Back!
18 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It'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 ...
On Hiatus! New Episodes Starting in June 2019
23 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 38: מינע-ליפֿשע ווישוואַנאַט | Meena-Lifshe Viswanath
19 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Meena-Lifshe Viswanath about being an engineer, garbage and recycling worldwide, raising a kid in Yiddish and more! It was a great...
Episode 37: גיטל שעכטער־ווישוואַנאַט און שרה־רחל שעכטער | The Schaechter Sisters, Rukhl and Gitl
05 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath and Sore-Rukhl Schaechter about their Yiddish childhoods, Barnard in the 1970s, Camp Hemshekh, and more....
Episode 36: Zohar Weiman-Kelman | לעסביִאַנקעס, שדים, און ייִדישע פּאָעזיִע [Vaybertaytsh Halloween!]
30 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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, fetis...
A Kitzur: משקה, אַרױס פֿון דער שאַפֿע | "Mashke," Out of the Closet
22 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A special Vaybertaytsh Short to tide you over til next week! This episode includes a new, queerified version of Mikhl Gordon’s song “Mashke,” wr...
Episode 35: Shterna Goldbloom, "Feygele" Photographer (in English) | שטערנאַ גאָלדבלום
04 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
Episode 34: ליאַנאַ יעלען, שטום־לשון איבערזעצערקע | Leana Jelen
12 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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.” ...
Episode 33: דירעקט אין שװעדן | Live in Sweden!
23 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
An 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, a...
Episode 32: די עראָטישע פּאָעזיִע פֿון טרױם קאַץ הענדלער | The Erotic Poetry of Troim Katz Handler
31 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks 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 pl...
Episode 31: מלכּי און מלכּי | Malky and Malky Talk Hasidim on TV and Women in Yiddish Theater
10 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Malky Weisz and Malky Goldman on their production company, Malky Squared Productions, and their work on a new adaptation of Naomi ...
Episode 30: עטי אױש | Etty Ausch from "One of Us"
05 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
You 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
16 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I 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-c...
Episode 28: בעלאַ בריקס־קלײַן | Beit HaBund in Tel Aviv with Bella Bryks-Klein
18 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 E...
Episode 27: {redn mit di toyte} Ruth Rubin | רות רובין
27 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Thank you so much to our participants, David Roskies, Talia Martz-Oberlander, Michael Yashinsky, Adah Hetko, and Eleonore Biezunski. Thanks to the Yid...
Episode 26: סאַטאָקאָ רבקה קאַמאָשידאַ | Satoko Kamoshida
13 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with sociolinguist Satoko Kamoshida about her work, Yiddish in Japan, feminism, and more.
Episode 25: “מינדל כּהן פֿון „אין געװעב | Mindl Cohen
29 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks Mindl for doing this interview right after a super intense AJS conference! Check out In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies!See Vaybertayt...
Episode 24: שרה גאָרדאָן און דניל קאהן | Sarah Gordon & Daniel Kahn
08 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with klezmorim Sarah Gordon and Daniel Kahn on music, yerushe, politics, plus two live versions of songs just for Vaybertaytsh!If you'r...
Episode 23: ישו | Jesus, etc.
24 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A Very Vaybertaytsh Nitl. Rukhl Slutsky and Mindl Cohen talk Jesus and the Jews.
Episode 22: לײַװ“ מיט ישין„ | Live with Yishai Stein
06 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 i...
Episode 21: ליבע | Love
14 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On 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-lif...
Episode 20: "רובי פֿון „שונד | Ruby Elliot Zuckerman on Her New Radio Show "Shund"
04 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 Mond...
Episode 19: Raising Yiddish Kids | די עלטערן
13 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A 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
23 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 17: {farvos} ייִדיש און איך | Yiddish in the Making of Me
14 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In 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?
02 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Does "mamaloshn" exist in academia? Is the line between the personal and the professional too blurry when it comes to Yiddish? Are academics part of t...
Episode 15: {farvos} קװירקײַט | Queer in Yiddish
18 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What 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...
Episode 14: Tsibele | ציבעלע (in English)
27 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A special once-a-season English episode of Vaybertaytsh with the incredible klezmer band Tsibele. They talk women in the music industry, repertoire, Y...
A Kitzur: Sing Me Yiddish Techno | פֿון „די שניטקעס“ אין רוסלאַנד
20 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A submission from Alice Che in Kaliningrad, Russia about her new Yiddish techno band "The Shnitkes," with a sneak peak of their music!
Episode 13: Renata Singer | „עלטער און דרײסטער“
08 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with writer Renata Singer about life after sixty, surrounding her book "Older and Bolder."
Episode 12: Eve Jochnowitz | איוו יאָכנאָװיץ
23 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with scholar and writer of food and Jews about New York, Yiddish, and food... food... food.
Episode 11: Abby Stein | אַבי שטײַן [Season II Premiere]
30 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Abby Stein, a transgender activist and former Satmar hasid. Abby talks about her upbringing, leaving her community, and her life e...
Episode 10: אין בערלין מיט ילדהן | Jalda Rebling on Song, Spirit, and Being Jewish in Germany (Season 1 Finale)
21 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Jalda Rebling, a Renewal chazzan and Yiddish singer who grew up in East Germany. Her mother, Lin Jaldati, was a well-known Yiddish...
Episode 9: מאַרשירן אַרום דער װעלט | The Women's March on Everywhere
30 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A special collaborative episode of Vaybertaytsh with listener's reactions and recordings from Women's Marches around the world! Special thanks to our ...
Episode 8: פֿון דער בינע ביזן קאַמפּוס | Reyna Schaechter
17 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Reyna Schaechter discusses the way her upbringing has guided her interests both scholastically and artistically.
Episode 7: עטישע מאָדע | The Yiddishists of Fair Trade Fashion
03 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Shifra Whiteman of the fair trade fashion line, Pintl+Keyt! We talked about the fair trade process, and the female leadership of the...
Episode 6: “לידער און „גלאָריע | Anna and Tova on "Yiddish Glory"
22 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
An episode of Vaybertaytsh on "Yiddish Glory: the lost songs of World War II in the Soviet Union."
Episode 5: אונדזערע מאַמעס | aka "The Club"
06 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
A co-produced Vaybertaytsh episode in which three young women reflect upon their mothers, who they all lost early in life.
A Kitzur: Einat on Naomi
06 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
A supplementary episode of Vaybertaytsh recorded in English with Einat Kadar, speaking about her mother, Naomi Prawer.
Episode 4: רוף די הײבאַם | Call the Midwife
20 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
An interview and Q+A with Yiddish-speaking midwife, Jessica Tsipe Angelson. Find the transcript here: http://goo.gl/r80BPr
Jews for Standing Rock | אַ קיצור: ייִדן פֿאַר סטאַנדינג ראָק
08 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 3: מיט נחמהן אין ירושלים | On African Refugees in Israel
01 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Sosye interviews Nechame Hecker, an English teacher for refugees from Africa in Jerusalem. Nechame explains the situation of refugees in Israel, and I...
Episode 2: חסידקע, פֿעמיניסטקע | Chassid, Feminist
13 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Sosye Fox talks to Tsilie Shtok, a ba'al tshuva Hasidic friend, about becoming frum, Hasidic Yiddish v. Klal Shprakh, and Feminism.
Episode 1: אַרײַנפֿיר | Introduction
25 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 ide...