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Queer Yiddish Camp is a 2 week online Yiddish intensive May 15-27, 2022 for ALL levels beginner to advanced. Attendees take language, literature, song, history, and culture classes from an all-queer faculty of world-renown Yiddish teachers, scholars, artists, activists, and cultural workers!
Queer Yiddish Camp started as a collective dream for what a truly inclusive Yiddish language intensive program could look like if it were run by queers. Trans Yiddish learners and our queer allies were dissatisfied with the years of misgendering, othering through being told our identities were not Yiddish, and lack of inclusive and representative pedagogy, that have been taking place at other Yiddish language intensives.
Calling on these institutions to do better only got us so far. We know they should still put in the work of implementing better policies and practices, and becoming accountable to marginalized Yiddish learners, but we also know we have what it takes to radically reimagine what Yiddish programming that centers the margins can make space for: a new generation of queers who don’t have to question their belonging while falling in love with Yiddish.
Queer Yiddish Camp is a space for folks with various marginalized identities to have a transformative experience learning Yiddish that:
- is accessible, affordable, reflects and celebrates the full expression of our identities
- engages with the breadth of Yiddish history, culture, and activism, which has always included trans and queer and norm-breaking ancestors
- fosters opportunities to become empowered to innovate within and expand upon our radical diasporic queer Yiddish traditions.
Queer Yiddish Camp values anti-oppression, centering the margins, accessibility, a culture of care and accountability, radical learning and pedagogy, challenging the canon, doikayt (hereness), cross-cultural solidarity, and nationhood not nationalism.
Our SCHOLARSHIP FUND especially prioritizes Indigenous, Black, Latinx, Asian, and all People of Color; trans, nonbinary, agender, genderqueer folks; D/deaf, disabled, crip, mad, neurodivergent folks; low-income folks; and other students of Yiddish who are underrepresented in mainstream Jewish and Yiddish spaces or find them inaccessible.
Our ACCESSIBILITY FUND provides ASL, CART and other accessibility resources for Queer Yiddish Camp attendees!
The full cost of sending a camper to Queer Yiddish Camp is $800 USD. Our goal for 2022 is to raise $24,000, the equivalent of 30 full scholarships that will allow dozens of campers to receive full or partial scholarships to the May 15-27, 2022 program!
As a grassroots organization without access to institutional or government funding, we’re relying on our networks of values-aligned individuals and organizations to help us make Queer Yiddish Camp a success. Whether you can give $5 or $180 or more, your contribution as a valued member of our extended community matters a lot!
Ready to sponsor one or more full scholarships? Take a look at our sponsorship options https://www.queeryiddish.camp/support-our-work under "Become a Sponsor".
Perks
Aviva Chernick is an award-winning singer, singing in Hebrew, Ladino and English. Aviva brings her soulful, soaring vocals to the exquisite Balkan Judeo-Spanish repertoire in her newest release, La Serena. The music is both lush and intimate and while honouring the roots of an established tradition of song, beautifully fresh sounding. Comes in a gatefold sleeve, and has a 20-page full-colour booklet with lyrics, writing on each of the songs, Aviva's work with Flory Jagoda, and photos. Includes unlimited streaming of La Serena via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Aviva Chernick is an award-winning singer, singing in Hebrew, Ladino and English. Aviva brings her soulful, soaring vocals to the exquisite Balkan Judeo-Spanish repertoire in her newest release, La Serena. The music is both lush and intimate and while honouring the roots of an established tradition of song, beautifully fresh sounding. Comes with a full-colour inner record sleeve with lyrics, writing on each of the songs, Aviva's work with Flory Jagoda, and photos. Includes unlimited streaming of La Serena via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Avi Fried is a pro-am (professional amateur) video editor and if you have a video reel or short video you'd like to make to promote or highlight a group you are with, he will work with you to put together something short. Think short TikTok/Instgram/YouTube videos. He can help edit for you or put music to, or edit down an interview -- sometimes called "deumung" (taking out all the umms that are in interviews sometimes).
מאַכט אַנאַרכיזם ייִדיש צוריק make anarchism jewish again The traditional black anarchist flag with an encircled alef, on a gold-plated pin with a rubber backing. it has a 25mm diameter, by the pink peacock / di rozeve pave. The Pink 'Peacock is a queer yiddish anarchist pay-what-you-can vegan cafe in Glasgow.
Any one pronoun pin in English or Yiddish from Ari Liblove-Goldfarb's Redbubble shop . These are original pronoun pins designed to look like a computer glitch. https://ariliboveart.com https://www.instagram.com/sinezona https://www.redbubble.com/people/Sinezona
"hey, hey, daloy politsey! we love yiddishkeyt and hate the cops and we reckon you do too" -- di rozeve pave A cool tote bag for all your carrying needs from the pink peacock / di rozeve pave! One side says דאַלױ פּאָליצײ in Yiddish and the other side says Fuck the Police in English. The pink peacock is a queer yiddish anarchist pay-what-you-can vegan cafe in Glasgow.
Kugel Western is a Yiddish-English lesbian scifi-western romance comic by Mira Schlosberg, published by Australian risograph printers Glom Press. website: https://miraschlosberg.com Twitter: @miraschlosberg Instagram: @homotaschen
Winner of both the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Poetry (US) and the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry, Lisa Richter's "auto/biography in poems" chronicles the life and work of the Yiddish poet Anna Margolin on her path toward self-determination. Blending myth, surrealism, historical fact and fiction, Nautilus and Bone brings to life one of the most celebrated Yiddish poets of her generation. www.lisarichter.org https://www.instagram.com/lisarpoet/
Through stories at once poetic and poignant, There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart, an anthology edited by Cindy Milstein and filled with dozens of voices, offers a powerful elixir for all who rebel against systemic violence and injustice. The contemporary renewal of Jewish anarchism draws on a history of suffering, ranging from enslavement and displacement to white nationalism and genocide. Yet it also pulls from ancestral resistance, strength, imagination, and humor—all qualities, and wisdom, sorely needed today. These essays, many written from feminist and queer perspectives, and a special artwork section journey into past and contemporary trauma in ways that are humanizing and healing. They build bridges from bittersweet grief to rebellion and joy. And via concrete illustrations of how Jewish anarchists lovingly transform their own ritual, cultural, and political practices, they clearly illuminate the path toward mending ourselves and the world. cbmilstein.wordpress.com
You tell freygl what you want your poem to be about and fae will write you a custom one-page poem in English. The claimer of this perk agrees to give credit to the author whenever sharing the poem aloud or on social media, and may not otherwise publish, sell, or benefit financially from the distribution of this poem.
This is a print that Emily Green made with a stencil that she carved with an exacto knife! The prayer for Torah study written in the gender neutral Hebrew (with English translation) is stencilled in gold onto forest green cotton. There is an abstract pomegranate pattern on the right with gold and red/pink hues. **Text credits: Thank you to the Nonbinary Hebrew Project for the Hebrew, and big gratitudes to Dori Midnight for the beautiful English translation.
You tell freygl what you want your poem to be about and fae will write you a custom one page poem in Yiddish. The claimer of this perk agrees to give credit to the author whenever sharing the poem aloud or on social media, and may not otherwise publish, sell, or benefit financially from the distribution of this poem.
One Month Membership in Daily Yiddish Speaking Challenge! Dream of speaking Yiddish as a daily, living language but fear you don't know enough words? Afraid your poor grasp of grammar will garble your ideas or your accent will make you hard to understand? Then the Daily Yiddish Speaking Challenge is for YOU! Record yourself speaking Yiddish every day for a month and develop the confidence, courage, & comfort to smash your imposter syndrome and use the words & grammar you already know. When you let go of your fear of mistakes, you'll be amazed at how much you can say! Every day, Shuli will post a prompt and some vocab & grammar suggestions in our Facebook group, and you'll share a recording of yourself responding to the prompt. The point is not to be perfect or engage in laborious, time-consuming study but to just read the prompt, think for a moment, and then speak spontaneously for however short or long you're able. It shouldn't take more than 5 minutes each day.
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Aviva Chernick is an award-winning singer, singing in Hebrew, Ladino and English. Aviva brings her soulful, soaring vocals to the exquisite Balkan Judeo-Spanish repertoire in her newest release, La Serena. The music is both lush and intimate and while honouring the roots of an established tradition of song, beautifully fresh sounding. Comes in a gatefold sleeve, and has a 20-page full-colour booklet with lyrics, writing on each of the songs, Aviva's work with Flory Jagoda, and photos. Includes unlimited streaming of La Serena via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Aviva Chernick is an award-winning singer, singing in Hebrew, Ladino and English. Aviva brings her soulful, soaring vocals to the exquisite Balkan Judeo-Spanish repertoire in her newest release, La Serena. The music is both lush and intimate and while honouring the roots of an established tradition of song, beautifully fresh sounding. Comes with a full-colour inner record sleeve with lyrics, writing on each of the songs, Aviva's work with Flory Jagoda, and photos. Includes unlimited streaming of La Serena via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Avi Fried is a pro-am (professional amateur) video editor and if you have a video reel or short video you'd like to make to promote or highlight a group you are with, he will work with you to put together something short. Think short TikTok/Instgram/YouTube videos. He can help edit for you or put music to, or edit down an interview -- sometimes called "deumung" (taking out all the umms that are in interviews sometimes).
מאַכט אַנאַרכיזם ייִדיש צוריק make anarchism jewish again The traditional black anarchist flag with an encircled alef, on a gold-plated pin with a rubber backing. it has a 25mm diameter, by the pink peacock / di rozeve pave. The Pink 'Peacock is a queer yiddish anarchist pay-what-you-can vegan cafe in Glasgow.
Any one pronoun pin in English or Yiddish from Ari Liblove-Goldfarb's Redbubble shop . These are original pronoun pins designed to look like a computer glitch. https://ariliboveart.com https://www.instagram.com/sinezona https://www.redbubble.com/people/Sinezona
"hey, hey, daloy politsey! we love yiddishkeyt and hate the cops and we reckon you do too" -- di rozeve pave A cool tote bag for all your carrying needs from the pink peacock / di rozeve pave! One side says דאַלױ פּאָליצײ in Yiddish and the other side says Fuck the Police in English. The pink peacock is a queer yiddish anarchist pay-what-you-can vegan cafe in Glasgow.
Kugel Western is a Yiddish-English lesbian scifi-western romance comic by Mira Schlosberg, published by Australian risograph printers Glom Press. website: https://miraschlosberg.com Twitter: @miraschlosberg Instagram: @homotaschen
Winner of both the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Poetry (US) and the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry, Lisa Richter's "auto/biography in poems" chronicles the life and work of the Yiddish poet Anna Margolin on her path toward self-determination. Blending myth, surrealism, historical fact and fiction, Nautilus and Bone brings to life one of the most celebrated Yiddish poets of her generation. www.lisarichter.org https://www.instagram.com/lisarpoet/
Through stories at once poetic and poignant, There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart, an anthology edited by Cindy Milstein and filled with dozens of voices, offers a powerful elixir for all who rebel against systemic violence and injustice. The contemporary renewal of Jewish anarchism draws on a history of suffering, ranging from enslavement and displacement to white nationalism and genocide. Yet it also pulls from ancestral resistance, strength, imagination, and humor—all qualities, and wisdom, sorely needed today. These essays, many written from feminist and queer perspectives, and a special artwork section journey into past and contemporary trauma in ways that are humanizing and healing. They build bridges from bittersweet grief to rebellion and joy. And via concrete illustrations of how Jewish anarchists lovingly transform their own ritual, cultural, and political practices, they clearly illuminate the path toward mending ourselves and the world. cbmilstein.wordpress.com
You tell freygl what you want your poem to be about and fae will write you a custom one-page poem in English. The claimer of this perk agrees to give credit to the author whenever sharing the poem aloud or on social media, and may not otherwise publish, sell, or benefit financially from the distribution of this poem.
This is a print that Emily Green made with a stencil that she carved with an exacto knife! The prayer for Torah study written in the gender neutral Hebrew (with English translation) is stencilled in gold onto forest green cotton. There is an abstract pomegranate pattern on the right with gold and red/pink hues. **Text credits: Thank you to the Nonbinary Hebrew Project for the Hebrew, and big gratitudes to Dori Midnight for the beautiful English translation.
You tell freygl what you want your poem to be about and fae will write you a custom one page poem in Yiddish. The claimer of this perk agrees to give credit to the author whenever sharing the poem aloud or on social media, and may not otherwise publish, sell, or benefit financially from the distribution of this poem.
One Month Membership in Daily Yiddish Speaking Challenge! Dream of speaking Yiddish as a daily, living language but fear you don't know enough words? Afraid your poor grasp of grammar will garble your ideas or your accent will make you hard to understand? Then the Daily Yiddish Speaking Challenge is for YOU! Record yourself speaking Yiddish every day for a month and develop the confidence, courage, & comfort to smash your imposter syndrome and use the words & grammar you already know. When you let go of your fear of mistakes, you'll be amazed at how much you can say! Every day, Shuli will post a prompt and some vocab & grammar suggestions in our Facebook group, and you'll share a recording of yourself responding to the prompt. The point is not to be perfect or engage in laborious, time-consuming study but to just read the prompt, think for a moment, and then speak spontaneously for however short or long you're able. It shouldn't take more than 5 minutes each day.
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