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Heritage Words — 32 episodes
From Baghdad to London: Losing and Keeping Judeo-Iraqi Arabic with Samantha Ellis
Singing from the Fragments: Iraqi-Ashkenazi Music with Yoni Avi Battat
The Rabbi Who Rejected Yiddish: Mordecai Kaplan’s Vision with Jenna Weissman Joselit
Chicken-Footed Demons and Synagogue Shouting: Venezuelan Sephardic Life with Joseph Bendahan
Bonus Episode: Ayuni: Foods of our Middle Eastern and North African Jewish Grandmothers
Opera and Film: Christian and Jewish Neo-Aramaic with Nora Lacey and Alan Niku
How an 11-Year-Old Learned a Dying Language: Lishan Didan with Sam Miller
The Teenager Who Accidentally Documented an Endangered Language: Judeo-Tuyserkani with Ashton Kahen
The Secret Jews of Mashhad: On Jewish Persian Languages with Lauren Hakimi
The Jewish Ambassador of Kentucky: Sephardi/Ashkenazi Comedian Ariel Elias
Tsures, Shnook, and Overlapping Dialogue: The Language of Long Story Short with Raphael Bob-Waksberg
Language Therapy: Iraqi, Tunisian, and Libyan Jewish Heritage with Stephanie Ives
Yiddish, Arabic, and the Search for Ancestral Voices with Karen Skinazi
Lost and Found: The Hidden Layers of Jewish Language and Literature with Dara Horn
Savoring Heritage: Ladino and Family Recipes with Elaine Lindheim
First-Generation Jew: Decoding Orthodox Dress, Speech, and Tradition with Aliza Bulow
Fress Frumkeit: Living Jewish Culture Through Food and Language with Michael Twitty
Sushi on Shabbat: A Pacific Islander’s Jewish Journey with Genevieve Okada Goldstone
From Krakow to Kurdistan to Casablanca: Heritage Words from Jewish Language Project Staff
Yiddish “Sounds Like Home,” with Michele Lieberman and Guest Interviewer Jack Lieberman
Ethiopian-Israeli-American Experience: A Conversation with Mother and Son Tawkalich Michal Avera Samuel and Telahun Liad Samuel
I Sing it Fluently: Ladino Activism with Sarah Aroeste
From Mashallah to Ayouni: The Power of Arabic Words and Music in Jewish Communities with Yosef Goldman
“Sampling my grandparents” with Galeet Dardashti
Bringing Maqam to a San Francisco Knis with Asher Shasho Levy
From vilde chaye to Yiddish parenting maven with Mayim Bialik
Ashtidek: Preserving the beauty of Judeo-Arabic with Sarah Sassoon
Khudo Kumek isn't just goodbye: Juhuri Journeys with Ilana Mansharov
Salud i vida! Toasting Ladino's Longevity in Seattle with Danny Jassen
"Jonam, what's up?" Bukharian as Bridge with Rozeeta Mavashev
Evelyn Dean-Olmsted: What are heritage words?
Introducing: Heritage Words