Vaybertaytsh

Sosye-Fraydl Fox
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Vaybertaytsh is a podcast for the Yiddish-speaking and Yiddish-curious.

  1. 12/06/2021

    Episode 61: Rivke Margolis | רבקה מאַרגאָליס

    In 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.

  2. 11/22/2021

    Episode 60: Etl Niborski | עטל ניבאָרסקי

    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 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 thinking, what it was like to be a Yiddish-speaking, non-Hasidic kid on the streets of Jerusalem, and about her current Yiddish activities and projects. For more from The White Screen’s album Sex, Drugs, and Palestine, click here. To see our most recent merch, click here.

  3. 10/13/2021

    Episode 59: ?דער ייִדישער פּאָדקאַסט – װוּהין | The Yiddish Podcast Today

    In 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 both of our shows on this episode!

  4. 10/05/2021

    Episode 58: Miriam Udel | מרים יודל

    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 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.

  5. 08/31/2021

    Episode 57: Isabel Frey | איזאַבעל פֿרײַ

    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 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/

  6. 08/17/2021

    Episode 55: Paula Teitelbaum | פּערל טײטלבױם

    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/

  7. 08/03/2021

    Episode 55: Cameron Bernstein | קאַמעראָן בערנשטיין

    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 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.

  8. 07/19/2021

    Episode 54: Re: "Yiddish Women Writers"

    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 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 the scholarship of a number of female academics. We also talk about the intersections between power dynamics, gender, age, and language ability in the Yiddish World. Perhaps most importantly, we also used this opportunity to offer and promote a variety of resources for Vaybertaytshniks who want to learn more about Yiddish women writers. See below! Key Anthologies:Found Treasures: Stories by Yiddish Women WritersThe Exile Book of Yiddish Women WritersYidishe dikhterins Key Scholarship:A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987A Marriage Made in Heaven: The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and YiddishGender and Text in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish LiteratureWomen Writers of Yiddish Literature: Critical Essays Queer Expectations: A Genealogy of Jewish Women's Poetry: Women, Men and Books: Issues of Gender in Yiddish Discourse How to Suppress Women's WritingPakn Treger "A Collection of Newly Translated Yiddish Works by Women Writers" Women Writers in TranslationIn Other Words: Yiddish Women in Translation MonthWomen in Translation Month: YiddishTranslating and Teaching Yiddish Prose by Women Songs: “Blue Jeans” by Ladytron, “Girls Like Us” by The Julie Ruin, and “Speech Bubbles” by WHY?

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Vaybertaytsh is a podcast for the Yiddish-speaking and Yiddish-curious.

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  • Creator
    Sosye-Fraydl Fox
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2021
  • Episodes
    66
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    Vaybertaytsh