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Jun 15, 2025 15 min

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

from Proste Yiddish - Simple Yiddish Hosted by Esther Singer

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. Send us a recording! 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. Follow the Yiddish We are on youtube, instagram and facebook. Check out the links here https://linktr.ee/prosteyiddish 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. Support the Show Thanks for listening and as always, if you like the show, please share it in your Yiddish circles! You can also leave us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen to the show. אַ דאַנק! Proste Yiddish is entirely volunteer-made, on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrong People in Naarm (so-called melbourne, oystralie).

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