*Interview with Chana Pollack, Archivist
Season 3: Episode 3 of Proste Yiddish*
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In this episode:
אין דעם עפּיזאָד שפּיל איך אַ פּאָר טײלן פֿון מײַן אינטערװיו מיט חנה פּאָלאַקן, אַרכיװאַר בײַם פֿאָרװערץ. חנה רעדט װעגן איר אַרבעט און אַ בילד װאָס זי האָט פֿעפֿונען אין אַרכיװ.
In this episode I play a few excerpts from an interview I conducted with Chana Pollack, archivist at ‪@Forverts‬ the Forward newspaper (established as a Yiddish daily in 1897!). I asked Chana about her work and ⁠her article about LGBTQ stories and silences in the archive⁠..
You can check out the full interview on the podcast audio stream.
You can always see the full transcript, all links & vocab here
tinyurl.com/ProsteTranscriptS3E3
Thanks to Sue Lynch for her help in making this video with full transcript on screen!
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