This is a recording from the 3rd annual JQT Heritage Month's QUEER JEWISH LANGUAGES in partnership with The HUC-JIR Jewish Language Project on Sunday, May 15, 2022 featuring:
Eyal Rivlin - Associate Teaching Professor and Director of Hebrew, University of Colorado, Boulder and Co-creator of The Nonbinary Hebrew Project
Nesi Altaras - an editor of Turkish Avlaremoz and Ladino revivificationist in Montreal
Faith Jones - a librarian, translator, and researcher of Yiddish culture in Vancouver
Grace Elizabeth Dy and Ellen Perleberg - co-principal investigators of “Yallah Y’all: The Development and Acceptance of Queer Jewish Language in Seattle”
Yosef Jay Nemanpour - a Persian-Iranian graduate intern at JQ International in Los Angeles
Moderated by Carmel Tanaka - Founder & Executive Director of JQT Vancouver
Participants enjoyed 40-min panel discussion on how each of our guests are ‘queering’ their respective Jewish languages, followed by a 20-min mini lesson with a guest of their choosing to learn a few queer Jewish terms and/or grammar!
The HUC-JIR Jewish Language Project promotes research on, awareness about, and engagement surrounding the many languages spoken and written by Jews throughout history and around the world. www.jewishlanguages.org/jewish-language-project
