Learning and using Yiddish - an interview with Jake (Yankl) Krakovsky

Episode 7  // Season 6

לערנען זיך ייִדיש׃ אַן אינטערװיו מיט יאַנקל קראַקאָװסקין

We’re back!!! I had a great time chatting with Jake (Yankl) Krakovsky for this interview. We discuss how Jake learned Yiddish and got into translation. This is an excerpt from a longer interview - I hope to release a little more in a few weeks as a bonus episode.

Transcript

There isn’t a full transcript for this episode yet but you can see a little here: https://tinyurl.com/ProsteTranscriptS6E7. If you are able to help with transcribing interviews please get in touch.

If you find the transcript too hard to understand,you can paste it into this wonderful tool from Refoyl Finkel and it will provide you with clickable definitions.

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Send us a little story about yourself, a review, something on a favourite topic. Get in touch, I’m happy to help you edit a script. 

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Music

All the music in our show is from the Free Music Archive. The tunes are by Tres Tristes Tangos, ⁠ ⁠Crowander, ⁠⁠Danny Bale⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠The Underscore Orkestra⁠⁠. Full details ⁠⁠in the transcript⁠⁠.

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Proste Yiddish is entirely volunteer-made, on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrong People in Naarm (so-called melbourne, oystralie).