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LXCL:Rad Yiddish offers community-engaged Yiddish folk arts, language, and cultural programming through a leftist, queer, feminist, anti-racist, disability justice lens, in an inclusive, supportive, accessible environment. Check out our upcoming online and in-person events, plus our shop full of original lefty Yiddish stickers and zines.

🍎LIBERATE &amp; RENEW: YIDDISH LEFT LEGACY ORGANIZATIONS THRIVING TODAY! 📅&nbsp;Thursday, October 15⌚ 7:30-9:00pm ET📍 On Zoom🫶 Co-presented by Rad Yiddish, Boston Workers Circle, Peretz Centre, and United Jewish People&#39;s Order ABOUT Sarah Biskowtiz will moderate a panel discussion with three fascinating speakers, each with decades-long involvement in their respective organization: Faith Jones (Peretz), Shayle Kilroy (UJPO), and Linda Gritz (BWC). Founded between 80-125+ years ago, Boston Workers Circle, Peretz Centre (vancouver), and United Jewish People&#39;s Order (toronto &amp; winnipeg) are still thriving today while retaining their explicitly Leftist politics including Palestine solidarity and other social justice commitments. Rad Yiddish is excited to bring together community members from these three historically-Yiddish Left legacy organizations&nbsp;to share about their organization&#39;s radical roots and ongoing cultural activism. What do these robust organizations offer the Jewish Left today? REGISTRATION&nbsp; Registration required.&nbsp;The suggested contribution for this panel is $25+ / pay-what-you-can (No one turned away for lack of funds).&nbsp; ACCESSIBILITY This event will take place in English on Zoom. We are working on securing ASL interpretation and CART captioning. This event will be recorded and available on Rad Yiddish&#39;s YouTube channel shortly after the event. Please let us know on the registration form if you have access requests or anything you&#39;d like the event organizers to know to support your participation, including if the availability of ASL or CART would make it possible for you to attend. PANELIST&nbsp;BIOS Sarah Biskowitz is a Yiddish cultural organizer, educator, and oral historian. She is pursuing a dual master&#39;s degree in Jewish studies and public administration at New York University. Previously, she worked at the Yiddish Book Center and Jewish Women&#39;s Archive. She also taught beginner Yiddish language and co-organized the Farbindungen conference. Sarah graduated from Smith College and completed the Year Program at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies. Her writing has appeared in Lilith Magazine, Jewish Currents, and In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies, among others. Linda Gritz is a lifelong Yiddish cultural activist, starting with attending the Workers Circle shule (Yiddish cultural after-school program) and Camp KinderRing. Since retirement in 2016 from a career in biotechnology as a molecular biologist turned medical writer, Linda has been creating original Yiddish songs and Yiddish versions of songs from other languages, usually with a social justice message. She is active in Boston Workers Circle / Arbeter Ring, a secular progressive community rooted in radical Yiddishkayt, and sings in its Yiddish chorus A Besere Velt (A Better World). Faith (נעמי) Jones is a translator and historian living on the unceded, ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations in Vancouver, Canada. She has been active in the Vancouver Peretz Centre for decades and has written about its history for scholarly and popular audiences. Among her translation projects are The Acrobat: Selected Poems of Celia Dropkin (co-translated with Jennifer Kronovet and Samuel Solomon), and Meant to Be and Other Stories by Shira Gorshman. She is currently working on translations of plays by Kadya Molodowsky and Esther Shumiatcher. Shayle Kilroy is a Toronto-based Yiddish enthusiast and community organizer. She grew up at Camp Naivelt, emerged in secular, leftist Jewish culture and has worked at the United Jewish People&rsquo;s order for four years, working to build a dynamic Jewish Left in Toronto and a true alternative Jewish institutional presence. She has an MA in Germanic Languages and Literatures with a field in Yiddish from the University of Toronto and is passionate about contemporary Yiddish pedagogy. She is a founding member of the Jews Say No to Genocide coalition and is proudly anti-zionist.&nbsp; ABOUT RAD YIDDISH Rad Yiddish offers community-engaged Yiddish folk arts, language, and cultural programming through a queer, feminist, anti-racist, and disability justice lens, in a supportive, inclusive, accessible environment. Want to keep in touch? <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/newsletter-form/sign-up-for-our-newsletter-3793" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Join our mailing list</a>!

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**MORE INFO** &nbsp;RAD YIDDISH &amp; DER TKHINES PROYEKT: BENEFIT CONCERT Join us for a beautiful concert featuring Der Tkhines Proyekt&#39;s latest tkhines songwriters cohort presenting their brand new material live for the very first time. Der Tkhines Proyekt&#39;s concerts have been described as: &quot;A stunning and moving gathering...&quot;&quot;Sacred space, transformative spirit, beautiful heart-filled new renderings...&quot; Tickets are available sliding scale. Suggested contribution $36+&nbsp;/ PWYC. RAFFLE PRIZES The first *50* tickets at $36+ are automatically entered into a Raffle for Prize Packs of Der Tkhines Proyket &amp; Rad Yiddish Merch, including posters, stickers, and zines! -- We still have a few Raffle Spots remaining! (Shipping to u.s. or canada only). PERFORMERS Maia Brown Ilan FichmanOlive Ivy Leah Joanna Letz Ariel Shapiro Khayele Shteynfeld Miri Villerius &amp; friends! ACCESS INFO For this Zoom event ASL interpretation and CART captioning will be provided. Yiddish will be transliterated into Latin letters and translations provided whenever possible. Please indicate in your access needs if you require ASL so we can inform the interpreters. For any other access needs or questions please be in touch to radyiddish1 at gmail. The Zoom link will be shared with registrants closer to the event date. WHAT ARE TKHINES? Yiddish Tkhines are Ashkenazi supplications that were regularly written and prayed by, and centered the experiences of women, trans, and gender non-conforming people. ABOUT THESE ORGS Rad Yiddish&nbsp;offers community-engaged Yiddish folk arts, language, and cultural programming through a queer, feminist, anti-racist, disability justice lens. Our programs include lefty Yiddish literary salons; queer conversation hour; panel discussions; zine publications; workshops in Yiddish dance, crafts, and more. Der Tkhines Proyket&nbsp;offers resources and interactive workshops which teach new melodies paired with old Yiddish tkhines, and uplifts the tradition of zogn tkhines, of speaking and writing spontaneous prayers as practiced by generations of Jewish grandmothers and trAncestors. WHAT ARE THE FUNDS FOR? Der Tkhines Proyekt and Rad Yiddish are both a labor of love, showcasing the creativity of disabled, queer, nonbinary Yiddish culture workers, with shared values around uplifting our radical diasporic cultures and collective liberation. This summer Rad Yiddish will work with several youth interns to support our events and programs through a government-funded program that reimburses up to the minimum wage. We think all workers deserve a living wage and are raising funds to close the gap between our funding and what we&#39;d like to pay our interns to carry out this important cultural work. Let&#39;s pair this labor of love with fair labor wages! Der Tkhines Proyekt&nbsp;is raising funds to bring more expert guest teachers to future songwriter cohorts and sustain operations with administrative support. In addition to guiding new and seasoned songwriters through the process of connecting to, translating, and writing new tkhines, funds will support future artistic creative collaborations and album recordings.&nbsp; We can&#39;t do this work alone, and we need funds to see our dreams continue as sustainable cultural projects. That&#39;s why&nbsp;we&#39;re raising $12,000 ($6,000 for each org)! All proceeds will be split 50/50 between Der Tkhines Proyekt and Rad Yiddish. With love, Der Tkhines Proyekt &amp; Rad Yiddish דער תּחינות פּראָיעקט &amp; ראַד ייִדיש

Rad Yiddish & Der Tkhines Proyekt CONCERT

Queer Yiddish Camp &amp; Rad Yiddish Present a PANEL DISCUSSION on RECLAIMING DIASPORIC JEWISH LANGUAGES! -ABOUT-Join us for an exciting afternoon of learning about Judeo-Arabic and Ladino language projects!&nbsp;Nesi Altaras&nbsp;will moderate a conversational-style discussion between daph bendavid ouyoussef, Iris / Reine Ruby, and Yinnon Sanders - all organizers and community leaders working on bringing Judeo-Arabic and/or Ladino language literacy to their communities through various initiatives. A Q&amp;A with the audience will follow the moderated discussion. -BACKGROUND-As organizations committed to radical social change within and outside of Yiddish culture, Queer Yiddish Camp and Rad Yiddish know that cross-cultural solidarity is a cornerstone of how we as Yiddishists show up in the world. Even as a marginalized Jewish language with a history of state suppression, Yiddish still continues to be more funded and resourced that other marginalized Jewish languages. We believe that uplifting Yiddish as a diasporic language cannot happen in a vacuum and that our cultural celebration and creation must happen alongside the uplifting of languages like Judeo-Arabic, Ladino, Judeo-Tajik and many many more! -PANELIST BIOS- daph bendavid ouyoussef (they/them) is a gender/queer educator, organizer, and artist of Arab and Eastern European lineage, born and raised in so-called Montreal, Quebec. They wrestle with grief, prayer, language and ancestry while building diasporic Jewish community, and lead prayers in the musical liturgical lineage of their Palestinian/Moroccan/Algerian ancestors. Some of daph&#39;s work can be viewed at <a fr-original-style="color:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit;" href="https://snap.as/daphbdvy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">https://snap.as/daphbdvy</a>, and <a fr-original-style="color:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit;" href="https://soundcloud.com/daphbdvy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/daphbdvy</a>. daph&#39;s favourite Jewish ancestral language they don&#39;t yet know is Tiberian Judeo-Arabic, a fusion of Moroccan and Palestinian dialects by the Jews of Tabbariyeh. Iris / Reine Ruby is a French-Tunisian-Algerian organizer, singer, curator and teacher based in Paris. She&#39;s been engaged in reclaiming her Maghrebi Jewish heritage through culture, spirituality and language for over 10 years, and has founded the &quot;DecolonizeJewish&quot; Tumblr and Instagram accounts that document Jewish histories, memories and identities from the colonized world. She teaches a free weekly online Arabic class for descendants of Jewish Arabic-speaking ancestors who were not able to transmit their language to the following generations due to the historical traumas of exile, assimilation, colonialisms and nationalisms. Using music, film and linguistics, she seeks to build healing communities to share and reimagine the possibility of &nbsp;Arab Jewish, African Jewish and Amazigh Jewish existence. <span fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; box-sizing: inherit;">Nesi Altaras is a PhD student in History at Stanford University. He works on the history of Jews in the Ottoman Empire. He has published on topics like the citizenship restitutions of Portugal and Spain to Sephardic Jews and the migration of Jews in the Ottoman-Iranian borderland. He is passionate about carrying Ladino into 21st century life. Yinnon Sanders is a software engineer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He grew up singing songs in Ladino at home and in the synagogue, and began learning to speak Ladino in 2020. He recently helped start a meetup for people in the Boston area interested in Ladino. This summer, he participated in a program at Hebrew University that taught research methods dealing with Ladino texts as well as interviews with native speakers. -ACCESS-This event will be CART captioned and ASL interpreted. Please be in touch with us about any access requests at least 10 days before the event so we can do our best to meet you needs! Email us at info [at] queeryiddish.camp

Reclaiming Diasporic Jewish Languages Panel Discussion!

Queer Yiddish Camp & Rad Yiddish Present the LAUNCH of QUEER / LEFTY / YIDDISH FUTURES Zine - Volume 1: Hearts & Hands! -ABOUT-Join us for an afternoon of readings, performances, and show-and-tell from pages of the Queer Lefty Yiddish Futures Zine - Volume 1: Hearts and Hands. You will be the first to see, hear, and experience the pages of the zine brought to life in a joyous community celebration on Zoom! Filled with poetry, collage, and original art, this zine lets us imagine a future together of liberation for all! What are your version(s) of the Queer Lefty Yiddish future(s)? Come to our launch event & share your imaginings! -ACCESS-This event will be CART captioned and ASL interpreted. Please be in touch with us about any access requests at least 10 days before the event so we can do our best to meet you needs! Email us at info [at] queeryiddish.camp -BACKGROUND-Last year the theme of our annual fundraiser cabaret was Queer, Lefty, Yiddish Futures. We loved the many and varied interpretations of this theme so we asked the performers if we could put their responses into a zine and opened a Call for Submissions from our wider community. The result is the Volume 1 of the zine! -ZINE COMMITTEE-We thank the Zine Committee freygl gertsovski, Jake Schneider, Neesh Savino, and Yankel Byrne for their beautiful work creating and formatting the pages of this zine. If you buy an "Event plus Zine" ticket to this event, you will be sent a digital copy of the zine right after the event. Physical copies will become available next month! This event is partly supported by KlezCalifornia's Yiddish Cultural Fund.

Queer Lefty Yiddish Futures Zine Launch!

Make a tax-deductible gift to Rad Yiddish that will impact our programming in 2026!<p fr-original-style="margin:0px;width:100%;line-height:1.5;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%;" style="margin: 0px; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Support our small non-profit in line with your leftist values - queer, feminist, anti-racist, pro-Palestine, and disability justice-focused - so we can put on more rad Yiddish language, folk arts, and cultural programs ﻿that you love!

Make a tax-deductible gift to Rad Yiddish that will impact our programming in 2026!Support our small non-profit in line with your leftist values - queer, feminist, anti-racist, pro-Palestine, and disability justice-focused - so we can put on more rad Yiddish language, folk arts, and cultural programs that you love!

WELCOME &nbsp;- TAKE A LOOK AROUND.&nbsp; We&#39;ve got ZINES and STICKERS. Grab some for yourself and everyone on your Khanike / Chanukah shopping list! SHOP SMALL.&nbsp; Every purchase supports Rad Yiddish to continue offering leftist Yiddish folks arts, culture, heritage, and language programs from a queer, feminist, anti-racist, and disability justice lens! As a small, not-for-profit organization working towards collective liberation, we have our items ethically printed by small-shop labor.&nbsp; SELECT SHIPPING / PICK-UP Make sure to add your shipping type or pick-up location to the cart at the bottom of the ship page! The address you enter at checkout is the one we will ship to. COMING SOON*We will soon be bringing back our clothing merch with new designs, printed on fair-trade fabric.

WELCOME - TAKE A LOOK AROUND. We've got ZINES and STICKERS. Grab some for yourself and everyone on your Khanike / Chanukah shopping list!SHOP SMALL. Every purchase supports Rad Yiddish to continue offering leftist Yiddish folks arts, culture, heritage, and language programs from a queer, feminist, anti-racist, and disability justice lens!As a small, not-for-profit organization working towards collective liberation, we have our items ethically printed by small-shop labor. SELECT SHIPPING / PICK-UPMake sure to add your shipping type or pick-up location to the cart at the bottom of the ship page! The address you enter at checkout is the one we will ship to.COMING SOON*We will soon be bringing back our clothing merch with new designs, printed on fair-trade fabric.

Rad Yiddish Shop ראַד ייִדיש קראָם

✊NAYE GEZELSHAFT (NEW SOCIETY): RADICAL BRANCHES Of The WORKERS CIRCLE, 1900-1939 with Yasha Giner! 📅Thursday, November 19⌚7:30-9:00pm ET📍On Zoom🫶Co-presented with Workers Circle College Network ABOUT The Workers Circle&nbsp;(formerly the Workmen&#39;s Circle/Arbeter-Ring) has a long history in the Jewish labor movement. While it was&nbsp;historically connected to the socialist movement, did you know that it also had&nbsp;two dozen anarchist branches? And that those branches existed not only in the united states, where the organization was based, but also in canada and England? Join Workers Circle Yiddish Culture &amp; Social Justice Organizer Yasha Giner to discuss these forgotten radicals,&nbsp;free-thinkers, free-lovers, immigrants, vegetarians, anti-zionists, feminists, and cooperative farmers who made up the Workers Circle&#39;s 24 anarchist branches between 1900-1939,and what their approaches to social justice and community organizing can teach us today! FORMAT This event is a&nbsp;Linker Leyenkrayz (Radical Reading Group). In a leyenkrayz, attendees actively&nbsp;participate in reading&nbsp;source materials (newspapers, prose, poetry, memoirs, meeting minutes, letters, interviews, etc) selected by the leyenkrayz facilitator and discuss&nbsp;the readings as a group (think: less lecture, more seminar).&nbsp; Materials will be available in the original Yiddish and in English translation. The discussion for Naye Gezelshaft will take place in English. FACILITATOR BIO Yasha Giner is the Yiddish Culture &amp; Social Justice Organizer at the Workers Circle. Apart from researching Workers Circle history, they can be found teaching Yiddish to students aged 6-86, helping build secular, progressive Jewish cultural life on college campuses with the Workers Circle College Network, playing the mandolin with wild abandon at all hours, and reading old issues of the Fraye Arbeter Shtime. REGISTRATION&nbsp; Registration required.&nbsp;The suggested contribution for this panel is $10+ / pay-what-you-can (No one turned away for lack of funds).&nbsp; ACCESSIBILITY This event will take place in English on Zoom. English translations of the Yiddish will be provided. Due to the participatory nature of this event, this event will not be recorded. Please let us know on the registration form if you have access requests or anything you&#39;d like the event organizers to know to support your participation. ABOUT RAD YIDDISH Rad Yiddish offers community-engaged Yiddish folk arts, language, and cultural programming through a queer, feminist, anti-racist, and disability justice lens, in a supportive, inclusive, accessible environment. Want to keep in touch? <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/newsletter-form/sign-up-for-our-newsletter-3793" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Join our mailing list</a>!

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