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 conversation - thank you Meena! A fraylikhn 2019 everyone!

A conversation with Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath and Sore-Rukhl Schaechter about their Yiddish childhoods, Barnard in the 1970s, Camp Hemshekh, and much more.

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, the text of which you can find a link in the episode notes and on our website. A dank Zohar! A fraylikhn Halloween tsu alemen! I also want to send warm thoughts to everyone vis-a-vis the tragedy in Pittsburgh. I didn’t include anything in the episode about this because frankly...

A 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 Jelen. You can find the lyrics below, 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 Vokh: inside of a...

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, and don’t forget to think of Vaybertaytsh in your donation plans this year, whether it’s a dollar...

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...

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, avade)!

An episode featuring the erotic and romantic poetry of Troim Katz Handler, and a conversation between two women, Shoshke-Rayzl and Pearl, who are working on a book of her poetry.

A 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 !

A chat with Etty Ausch, one of the three Hasidim/former Hasidim in various stages of leaving their community in the Netflix documentary "One of Us." We talked her life since the movie, her feelings about the movie, discovering feminism, biking, and more. Thanks so much Etty for sharing your story. You can find "One of Us" on Netflix, and Etty's piece on discovering her sexuality here on Refinery29. (If you don't see a link here, check our website or, if on iTunes, the episode note below).

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-care, branding, feminism, and sexism at work. Thanks Yudis!

A morning in Beit HaBund talking with Yiddish activist and all around amazing woman, Bella Bryks-Klein. We had some audio problems with the first bit of interview, but please stay strong through some of the popping noises of the beginning. The audio clears up and s'iz kday!

Sosye "speaks" with her hero Ruth Rubin, with help from singers, scholars, and archives. Thank 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, and a groyse dank to our first advertising sponsors, the League for Yiddish and the YIVO Summer Program. On the League for Yiddish's website, you can find details about...

A conversation with sociolinguist Satoko Kamoshida about her work, Yiddish in Japan, feminism, and more.

A conversation about life, gender issues in academia, and being the shef-redaktorshe of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies with Mindl Cohen.

A conversation with klezmorim Sarah Gordon and Daniel Kahn on music, yerushe, politics, plus two live versions of songs just for Vaybertaytsh!

A Very Vaybertaytsh Nitl. Rukhl Slutsky and Mindl Cohen talk Jesus and the Jews.

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.

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-life Thanks to the Forward for including Sosye in the Forward 50! http://forward.com/series/forward-50/2017/sandra-fox/

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 conversation between parents raising their kids in Yiddish. Please remember to take our listener survey! Find it here: https://goo.gl/e883eh

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.

In our last Farvos episode, we have a conversation about Yiddish and identity. How does Yiddish influence who you are, and why?

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 the future of spoken Yiddish, or a different story entirely? Should Yiddish researchers speak Yiddish, if their focus is on the written word? Why?

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 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...