Vaybertaytsh: A Feminist Podcast in Yiddish

Sandra, or in Yiddish, Sosye, is the founder and producer of Vaybertaytsh, a feminist podcast for the Yiddish-speaking and Yiddish-curious.Vaybertaytsh began in 2016 and has a growing network of 8,000 listeners per month from 28 countries, reaching Yiddish enthusiasts of all ages, backgrounds, religious communities, and gender identifications.

The early seeds for Vaybertaytsh were planted when Sosye started learning Yiddish in 2013. As her interest in the language and its culture grew, she envisioned a new platform for creating modern Yiddish-speaking media for the twenty-first century. A lover of public radio, she looked towards podcasting as the ideal form of media for a younger generation of often new and non-native Yiddish speakers. She chose feminism as a lens for the show in order to highlight the experiences of Yiddish-speaking women, underrepresented in both histories of Yiddish and Yiddishism and contemporary Hasidic media.

The show has featured episodes with Yiddish-speaking women from many walks of life, including a Hasidic feminist, a globetrotting midwife, a fair-trade fashion entrepreneur, a formerly Hasidic activist for trans rights, a scholar of Soviet Jewish history, and more. In November 2017, Sandra was chosen as one of the “Forward 50” for her work on the show.

To learn more about the show and to have a listen, visit the website here.