Vaybertaytsh
Vaybertaytsh is a podcast for the Yiddish-speaking and Yiddish-curious.
- Update frequency
- every 20 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 63
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2021
A Kitzur: We’re Back!
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!
Episode 38: מינע-ליפֿשע ווישוואַנאַט | Meena-Lifshe Viswanath
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…
Episode 37: גיטל שעכטער־ווישוואַנאַט און שרה־רחל שעכטער | The Schaechter Sisters, Rukhl and Gitl
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!]
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 sp…
A Kitzur: משקה, אַרױס פֿון דער שאַפֿע | "Mashke," Out of the Closet
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 Jealen. Yo…
Episode 35: Shterna Goldbloom, "Feygele" Photographer (in English) | שטערנאַ גאָלדבלום
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 ww…
Episode 33: דירעקט אין שװעדן | Live in Sweden!
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)!
The words Sosye talks about in Swedish are:
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Episode 32: די עראָטישע פּאָעזיִע פֿון טרױם קאַץ הענדלער | The Erotic Poetry of Troim Katz Handler
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 play her amazing poetry and spread the word.
Episode 31: מלכּי און מלכּי | Malky and Malky Talk Hasidim on TV and Women in Yiddish Theater
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 Fro…
Episode 30: עטי אױש | Etty Ausch from "One of Us"
You can find "One of Us" on Netflix (trailer here). Read Etty's piece on discovering her sexuality here on Refinery29.
Episode 28: בעלאַ בריקס־קלײַן | Beit HaBund in Tel Aviv with Bella Bryks-Klein
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 twis…
Episode 27: {redn mit di toyte} Ruth Rubin | רות רובין
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 archiv…
Episode 25: “מינדל כּהן פֿון „אין געװעב | Mindl Cohen
Thanks 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 …
Episode 24: שרה גאָרדאָן און דניל קאהן | Sarah Gordon & Daniel Kahn
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 reco…